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Sun Ship Names

Schmitt Naval Architect

Administrative Division

Richard Schmitt

Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Co., Chester, Pa., has appointed

Richard Schmitt as naval archi- tect, Shipbuilding Administrative

Division. Mr. Schmitt's responsi- bilities include the review and updating of ship repair cost es- timating techniques and the de- velopment of special marketing programs. He reports to Everett

C. Hunt, director of the Ship- building Administrative Division.

Mr. Schmitt comes to Sun from

Exxon International, Tanker De- partment, in Florham Park, N.J., where he worked from 1966 to 1977. While with Exxon, he had a variety of assignments, includ- ing design of specialty gas car- riers, pollution control, tanker planning and acquisition econom- ics, and the design of a com- puterized shipbuilding data and retrieval system. His last post with Exxon International was senior project engineer.

From 1962 to 1966, Mr. Schmitt worked for J.J. Henry Co., Inc., naval architects and marine en- gineers in New York City.

Mr. Schmitt is a graduate of the Webb Institute of Naval

Architecture and Marine Engi- neering and holds an MBA de- gree in international business management from New York

University. 128 Plant Facilities

Located On Waterways

In Fourth Quarter '76

James R. Smith, president of

The American Waterways Oper- ators, Inc., Washington, D.C., has announced that 128 plant facili- ties were located along the water- ways of the United States in the fourth quarter of 1976, creating nearly 25,000 permanent employ- ment opportunities.

Of the 128 plant facilities, 101 reported capital investments to- taling $1,819,700,000, an average $18-million investment per plant- site. A total of 23,730 new jobs will be created by 39 of these plant locations, resulting in an average 608 employees per plant, the highest average ever recorded by AWO.

AWO records show that 40 of the plants were chemical and pe- troleum refining facilities, 33 were

May 15, 1977 metal-producing plants, 10 were paper and wood-producing plants, five were terminals, docks and wharves, and the remainder con- sisted of general manufacturing and miscellaneous installations.

The Mississippi River led with 28 facilities, followed by the Gulf intracoastal Waterway with 12, the Atlantic Intracoastal Water- way with 11, the Tennessee River with 10, and the Houston Ship

Channel with eight. The total number of plant locations and expansions recorded by AWO has reached 10,205 since AWO began compiling statistics in 1952.

One of the major plantsite de- cisions of the fourth quarter was the headquarters of Monoflex In- ternational, which will be located in Emmett, Idaho, near the Snake

River. The complex will include approximately 10 plants to be constructed over the next 18 months. The plants will be used in the manufacture of fireproof and weather proof insulating coating for walls and roofs. Em- ployment at the facilities will reach 10,000 persons.

AWO president Smith stated that while all of the facilities re- corded do not necessarily utilize water transportation, the avail- ability of barge service results in a general reduction of the freight rate structure, an important fac- tor in plant location decisions. 675 GARDEN STREET • ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY 07207 U.S.A. • (201) 352-9613

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