Chevron Transport Orders Four 35,000-Ton Tankers From Mitsubishi

F o u r new 35,000-deadweightton petroleum product tankers have been ordered by Chevron Transport Corporation, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of California, for service in the company's international trades. The diesel-powered vessels will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in its yard at Kobe, Japan. One tanker is scheduled for delivery in September 1981, two in mid-1982, and the last in early 1983. These product carriers will be sisterships of the two which Chevron ordered in December 1979 for delivery in 1981.

All six of these vessels will meet the safety and environmental requirements of the U.S. Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978, as well as those of various conventions which have been adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), the maritime agency of the United Nations. They will be equipped with protectively located segregated ballast tanks and inert gas systems.

The addition of this new tonnage to the company's fleet will serve to replace older petroleum product tankers which the company has scrapped over the last five years.

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