Porter Coatings
Establishes Five
Operating Zones
Recent acquisitions by Porter
Coatings, Louisville, Ky., of the
marine and industrial coatings busi-
ness of USS Chemicals include
TARSET® INSUL-MASTIC® and
TARMASTIC® lines and, from
Bituminous Products, the widely
known ZINC-LOCK® patented in-
organic zinc.
Porter Coatings has further
streamlined its entire sales/service
organization into five operating
zones with zone offices as follows:
Kenilworth, N,J. (Northeast); At-
lanta, Ga. (Southeast) ; Chicago,
111. (North Central) ; Houston, Tex-
as (South Central), and Emeryville,
Calif. (Western).
To strengthen marine service ca-
pability, staff additions include C.
Peter Treleaven, formerly of Devoe
Marine, headquartered in Houston ;
Eugene B. Rode, formerly of Zinc-
Lock, in Los Angeles, Calif.; and
Jack F. O'Neill, formerly of Amer-
on Marine, in New Orleans, La.
Porter is .now a full service
source of specific high performance
materials and services for marine
and offshore trade.
Porter Coatings, Division of Por-
ter Paint Co., general offices are lo-
cated at 400 South 13 Street, Louis-
ville, Ky. 40201.
Six Top Executives
Promoted At TTT
Transamerican Trailer Trans-
port, Inc., which, since 1968, has
introduced the world's three larg-
est and fastest roll-on trailerships
in the Puerto Rican trade, has an-
nounced six key promotions in
keeping with the "responsibilities
that result with growth," accord-
ing to R.D. Carter, TTT president.
At TTT's headquarters office in
Staten Island, N.Y., Paul Semack
has been appointed senior vice
president - marketing; Boleslaw
Szolkowski, senior vice president-
operations; Clifford G. Williams,
senior vice president-finance, and
D. Bernard Carr, vice president-
sales.
At the company's San Juan of-
fice, Roberto Lugo D'Acosta has
been promoted to executive vice
president-Puerto Rico, and Rudy
Irrizary, vice president - Puerto
Rico.
In announcing the appointments,
Mr. Carter noted that they were the
direct result of TTT's and Puerto
Rico's continued expansion and
growth over the past five years.
FIRST OF TWO FROM MITSUI: The 116, 570-dwt bulk/ore carrier Polyviking was re-
cently delivered at the Tamano Works of Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. to
her owner, Einar Rasmussen, Norway. Driven by Mitsui B&W 9K84EF type diesel engine
with a maximum continuous output of 23,200 bhp at 1 1 4 rpm, the vessel has a cargo
hold capacity of approximately 4,930,252 cubic feet, and a maximum trial speed of
17.86 knots. Her general dimensions are about 853 feet in overall length, 817 feet in
bp length, 130 feet molded breadth, 74 feet in molded depth, and a full load draft of
54 feet. The Polyviking is the first of two similar carriers ordered by the same owner
from Mitsui.
Bath Iron Launches AEL's Newest Containership
SNAME San Diego Section Hears Paper
Pictured at the meeting, left to right: Melvin F. Good, secretary-treasurer of the San
Diego Section; David R. Rodger, Section vice chairman; H.N. Wallin, speaker; Comdr.
Raymond W. Bernhardt, papers chairman, and G.A. Uberti, Section chairman.
The first meeting for the new
year of 1973 for the San Diego Sec-
tion of The Society of Naval Ar-
chitects and Marine Engineers was
held at Caesar's Restaurant in Mis-
sion Valley on January 17.
Following the social hour, H.N.
Wallin, director of engineering of
the Harbor Boat Building Com-
pany, Terminal Island, Calif., gave
an excellent and informative paper
on "Marine Sewage Control Plants,
a Guide to Selection."
Mr. Wallin's presentation out-
lined the various methods of sew-
age treatment available and the
types of marine sewage control
equipment presently in use. Five
basic sewage control processes were
examined,along with the character-
istics for an "ideal" marine sewage
treatment control plant being de-
fined to meet the new requirements
and regulations to become effective
in 1973 by the United States Coast
Guard for vessels in U.S. navig-
able waters.
Shortly before launching ceremonies for American Export Lines' containership Export
Patriot, the following dignitaries posed in front of the podium: (left to right) Laurence J.
Buser, president and chief executive officer of American Export Lines; Mrs. and Com-
missioner Ashton C. Barrett; Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Blackwell; Commissioner James V.
Day, and James F. Goodrich, president, Bath Iron Works.
The Export Patriot, last of six
containerships built by Bath Iron
Works for American Export Lines,
Inc., was launched on February 3
at Bath, Maine. These vessels are
the largest ships ever constructed
in the state of Maine.
Mrs. Robert J. Blackwell, wife
of the Assistant Secretary of Com-
merce for Maritime Affairs, spon-
sored the vessel by shattering the
traditional bottle of champagne on
the bow as the new containership
slipped into the Kennebec River.
The Export Patriot displaces 26,-
670 tons, has a length of 610 feet
overall, a beam of 78 feet, and a de-
sign draft of 27 feet. Her General
Electric turbine propulsion system
is rated at 17,500 shaft horsepower
and her service speed is 21 knots.
With five hatches and a system per-
mitting deck stowage of containers,
she has a capacity of 1,070 twenty-
foot containers, or the equivalent
in 20-foot and 40-foot containers,
refrigerated vans and gondolas.
The ship's power plant is fully
automated and may be operated
from a central console located on
the bridge. She features air-con-
ditioned accommodations through-
out.
For maneuvering ease during
docking and undocking, and for op-
erations in restricted waters, the
vessel is equipped with an 800-
horsepower bow thruster which is
controlled from the bridge. The
Export Patriot has a bulbous bow
and cruiser stern, and the upper
portions of her hull are fabricated
The Export Patriot stands ready for chris-
tening as Laurence J. Buser, president and
chief executive officer of American Export
Lines, addresses guests and dignitaries at-
tending the launching,
of high tensile steel, permitting
substantial savings of weight top-
side.
Three of the Export Patriot's
sister ships—the Sea Witch, Light-
ning, and Staghound—are current-
ly operating on AEL's North Eu-
rope trade route.
The Export Leader, launched
last July, will soon join the Export
Freedom, launched last January,
on AEL's full-container Mediter-
ranean trade route.
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