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Haggett Chairman

Of Shipbuilders Council—

Schaefer Is Vice Chairman

At the recent quarterly meeting of the Shipbuilders Council of Ameri- ca, William E. Haggett, president and chief executive officer of Bath

Iron Works, was reelected chairman of the board of the Shipbuilders

Council of America. Hans K.

Schaefer, president of Todd Ship- yards Corporation, was renamed vice chairman; both will serve an additional one-year term.

At the same meeting, the follow- ing were elected to the SCA Execu- tive Committee: Thomas T. Bal- four, General Electric; Edward J.

Campbell, Newport News Ship- building; William E. Haggett,

BIW; David H. Klinges, Bethle- hem Steel; James R. Mellor, Gen- eral Dynamics; John L. Roper III,

Norfolk Shipbuilding; Gerald St.

Pe, Ingalls Shipbuilding; Hans K.

Schaefer, Todd Shipyards; Law- rence A. Smith, Lockheed Ship- building; and Richard C. Vort- mann, National Steel and Ship- building.

Elected as officers for the coming year were: M. Lee Rice, president;

W. Patrick Morris, vice presi- dent; John S. Rivers, vice presi- dent and secretary; John J. Stock- er, vice president; and Beverly C.

Kendall, treasurer and special as- sistant to the president.

Japanese Containership

Lines Complete Moves

In Port Of Seattle

With the recent announcement of an agreement for Evergreen Line and Japan Line to operate a new joint trans-Pacific service using the

Port of Seattle's Terminal 18, spe- cific arrangements have been com- pleted to accommodate all six Japa- nese containership lines in Seattle, according to Port Director James

D. Dwyer.

The six Japanese lines—Japan

Line, K Line, Mitsui-O.S.K., NYK

Line Showa Line, and Y-S Line— together comprising the Port's sec- ond largest container customer, are realigning their operations into four joint services that will include four other foreign-flag operators.

K Line will launch a joint service with Mitsui-O.S.K. and EAC Lines in Seattle's Terminal 25. NYK Line and Showa will continue their oper- ations at Terminal 37. Y-S Line will start a new service in conjunction with OOCL and NOL at Terminal 18.

Genstar Awarded Contract

To Install Ballast-Crete®

In Three Containerships

Genstar Stone Products Compa- ny has been awarded a fixed ballast contract by the Bay Shipbuilding

Corp. in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The contract involves the installation of

Ballast-Crete®, approximately 4,710 long tons at a minimum density of 200 pcf in each of three container ships being constructed for the Sea-

Land Corporation.

Genstar's Ballast-Crete® is engi- neered to meet the needs of the pur- chaser within a density range of 40 to 400 pcf. Higher densities are available upon request.

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Seebeckwerft Launches

Containership For People's

Republic Of China

Seebeckwerft AG in Bremerhaven recently launched a fully cellular- ized containership that is under construction for China Ocean Ship- ping Company (COSCO), the state shipping company of the People's

Republic. The two companies have business relationships dating back more than 10 years.

The containership has an overall length of 653.5 feet, beam of 93.2 feet, depth to first deck of 50.7 feet, and summer draft of 35 feet. Pro- pulsion will be provided by an

M.A.N.-B&W diesel engine with an output of 9,977 bhp, giving a trial speed of 16.9 knots. The ship will be classed by Germanischer Lloyd.

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