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Union Oil. Each product carrier has a capacity of 300,000 barrels.

The Blue Ridge will be capable of carrying 20 different products simultaneously.

The 658-foot vessel has a cylin- drical appendage-type bulbous bow to improve speed. It will have a General Electric steam turbine engine for maximum fuel effici- ency and conservation. Each ship incorporates the most modern equipment available and will meet the latest safety and environ- mental protection standards in- cluding double bottoms, a clean segregated ballast system, an in- ert gas system, a sewage treat- ment plant, collision-avoidance ra- dar, and a backup steering sys- tem.

The vessels were ordered by

Union Oil in April 1979; they are being built entirely without Fed- eral subsidy. The second vessel to be launched, the Coast Range, slid into the water on January 10, 1981. The third, the Sierra Madre, was launched on May 2. All three will be delivered before the end of 1981.

NASSCO currently has under contract a total of eight product carriers, three Navy destroyer tenders, and a Navy cable repair ship. The company's current back- log of repair and new construc- tion work is approximately $665 million. NASSCO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morrison-

Knudsen Co., Inc., Boise, Idaho.

Stroh Named VP-General

Manager For Barber Lines

On West Coast

Robert C .Stroh

Robert C. Stroh has been named vice president and general man- ager of Barber Steamship Lines' newly formed West Coast com- pany, it was announced by Robert

H. Pouch, president of the New

York-based general shipping agent.

As head of Barber Steamship

Lines of California Inc., Mr. Stroh will be in charge of the firm's

West Coast operations with head- quarters in Los Angeles. The San

Francisco office will be managed by Herbert A. Magnuson, vice president, and Walter L. Raben- ston, vice president, will be in charge of the Los Angeles office.

South Jersey Port Orders

Heavy Duty Multi-Purpose

Crane From Kocks

Kocks Crane and Marine Com- pany in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been awarded a contract for the supply and installation of a "Heavy Duty

Multi-Purpose Bulk Cargo Crane with Container Handling Capabil- ities" by the South Jersey Port

Corporation in cooperation with the EDA and the City of Camden,

N.J.

The Kocks crane incorporates the latest in advanced technology, placing special emphasis on de- sign, particularly in the area of structural fatigue.

The new crane will handle a variety of the port's loading and unloading requirements. The ver- satility of this unit allows for efficiency, not only in container handling operations at a mini- mum rate of 30 boxes per hour, but also in magnet; hook beam; bucket and scrap pan operations; in addition to its heavy lift capa- bilities.

Some notable features of the crane which will provide for maximum flexibility and a high throughput handling rate include a slewing trolley capable of 180 degree rotation, and a patented spreader of unique design for pan loading operations. The loading rate for scrap, via pan operation, will be up to 900 tph. Handling rates of other bulk materials will be up to 500 thp. This specially designed Kocks crane will enable the port to handle any of a va- riety of bulk commodities that may cross their dock during im- port or export operations.

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