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Amerada Hess To Build

Five Tug-Barge Tankers —Total Cost $249 Million

Amerada Hess Corporation,

New York, N.Y., on behalf of five wholly owned subsidiaries to be designated later, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of five "CATUG" integrated tug-barge tanker units.

Each unit will have a capacity of about 47,000 deadweight tons.

The applicant indicated they ei- ther will be bareboat chartered to an affiliate of, and operated by,

Apex Marine Corp., or will be managed and operated by the shipping personnel of the appli- cant.

Estimated actual cost of the five units is $249 million, of which the applicant would finance $175 million with guaranteed bonds or notes. A shipbuilder has not been selected.

The application states that the vessels will be used in the do- mestic and foreign commerce of the United States.

ICHCA Elects Murdoch

To Succeed Holubowicz

At a June meeting of the In- ternational Council of the Inter- national Cargo Handling Co- ordination Association (ICHCA), held in Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, Peter Murdoch, director of

Small Ports and Operational Serv- ices, British Transport Docks

Board, and chairman of ICHCA

U.K., was elected chairman of the executive board and council of the Association. Mr. Murdoch, who was first associated with

ICHCA in 1971, has spent his en- tire career since 1946 in the ports industry and has had wide expe- rience of operational matters. He has held a number of senior man- agement appointments at BTDB, including chief commercial man- ager and manager of the ports of

Grimsby and Immingham. Mr.

Murdoch replaces Ray Holubowicz, chairman and managing director of Marine Ventures Ltd., who had agreed at the Melbourne General

Assembly in April 1977 to remain as chairman for one further year only. He steps down because of increasing private business com- mitments but will remain on the board.

The International Council thanked Mr. Holubowicz for the leadership and support which he had given to the Association over the years, and hoped that he would continue to give ICHCA the benefit of his experience. Mr.

Holubowicz, in response, said that he had had a long but interesting term as chairman, and he felt that he had left the International

Cargo Handling Co-ordination As- sociation in good heart and well prepared to move into the next phase of its existence.

In his view, ICHCA, as a vol- untary body comprised of orga- nizations and individuals in 90 countries, could not be responsi- ble for direct action in the cargo handling field, but could and would continue to play a vital role in act- ing as a disseminator of informa- tion and as a point where future policies could be crystalized suf- ficiently to give a lead to industry.

Mr. Holubowicz was particular- ly pleased to note that in the past year the Association had made progress in its policy of dissemi- nation of information by the pub- lication of the "Information Ac- cess" series of documents, the most important of which was the

Quarterly Cargo Handling Ab- stracts, Issue No. 2 which had just been published.

He went on to say that the publication of "Ro-Ro Shore and

Ship Ramps —An ICHCA Sur- vey," which encompasses details on over 1,000 ramps, would assist the working party set up by the

International Standards Organi- sation to crystalize the industry's views on the harmonization of the ship/shore interface in ro/ro op- erations.

Mr. Holubowicz concluded by thanking his colleagues on the

International Council for their support during his years of office.

He also paid tribute to the Cen- tral Office staff for their efforts in implementing the Council's policies.

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