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Fourth Quarter Of 1972 Shipbuilding Returns Reported By Lloyd's The revival in the United States shipbuilding industry apparent from Lloyd's Register's report for the September quarter of 1972 con- tinued into the following quarter, according to the international ship classification society. Ships under construction here, together with those on order but not commenced, totaled 2,899,542 gross tons at the end of December. This is 309,440 tons more than 'the previous quar- ter. Apart from Communist China and Russia, for which details are not available, there are building in the world 1,916 merchant ships of 24,350,507 gross tons, which is 581,487 tons less than the last quar- ter, and is the first decrease since September 1971. The decline in the demand for new tonnage, which had been pre- valent during 1972 and is current- ly reflected in the reduction of ton- nage under construction, was halted in the latter weeks of the year by a remarkable upsurge of new orders. More than 10,000,000 tons of ship- ping was contracted for in Decem- ber alone. The possibility of further revalu- ation of the yen, together with im- provements in the tanker market, are responsible for owners taking up berth space in Japan well into 1976. Swedish and West German yards also booked orders for huge tankers. Tankers represent 66.8 percent, bulk carriers 21.2 percent, and gen- eral cargo 6.7 percent of the total order book. 7,365,746 gross, tons of shipping of which keels have already been laid are being built under the su- pervision of surveyors of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. DEVCON distributors supplying M-5 Marine Repair Kits BAHRAIN The International Agencies Co. Ltd. P.O. Box 584 Cable: INTERC0L Phone: 4275, 4166, 3607, 5931/2 BELGIUM Compagnie Commerciale Kreglinger, S.A. Grote Markt 9 2000 Antwerp Cable: KREGPLASTICS Phone: 329889 (15.1) CANADA Dumart. ltd 671 Wilson St St. John N B Phone (5061 672 6370 Industrial Plastics 2105 Douglas St. Victoria, B.C. Phone: (604) 386-1477 E.B. Peerless Ltd. 5934 Fraser Street Vancouver, B.C. Phone: (604) 327-1181 W.N. White & Co. 213 Bedford Highway Rockingham Halifax, Nova Scotia Phone: (902) 454-6431 CANARY ISLANDS Alcorde, S.L. Benecharo, 1 - 3° Las Palmas Cable: ALCORDE LAS PALMAS Phone 26 1324 - 26 1328 - 26 0284 FINLAND AB Axel Von Knorrings Tekniska Byra P.O. Box 38020 SF-00380 Helsinki 38 Cable: MASKINAXEL Phone: 554488 FRANCE C.O.M.E.T. 10, Avenue Eugene-Gazeau 60, 304 Senlis Cable: COMELEVAL-PARIS Phone: 455-35-40 GERMANY A. Friedrich Kruse KG Geeren 26-28 (Postfach 1321) 28 Bremen 1 Phone: (0421) 310648 Louis Taxt P.O. Box 50-1528 Oelkersallee 29 2 Hamburg Cable: TAXIT HAMBURG Phone: 431007 GREECE Stelios Athanassacopoulos & Co. O.E. 59, Platonos Street Athens 208, Cable: AGENCITA - ATHENS Phone: 547 - 117 HOLLAND Machine-En Gereedschappenhandel Tools N.V. Schakelstraat 21 (P.O. Box 8040) Amsterdam 1016 Cable: TOOLS AMSTERDAM Phone:(020) - 822655 Van Gelder Compagnie N.V. Schuttevaerweg 60 Postbox 660 Rotterdam, 3008 Cable: VEEGEECO - ROTTERDAM Phone:(010)156622 HONGKONG Casey Company, Ltd. 1914, Prince's Building, Chater Road Cable: CASEYC0 - HONGKONG Phone: H-239619 H-242916 H-231652 H-242906 IRAN Boroudat Company Ltd. 14 Sagheb Street Roosevelt Avenue 15164 Tehran 5 Cable: BOROUDAT COMPANY LTD. 1445 TEHRAN Phone: 830873-4 / 827328 ITALY Rimassa, S.A.S. Via A. Cecchi, 13 16129 Genova Cable: AM ERI TOOLS Phone: 56.62.68 - 58.13.23 KUWAIT Arabi W.L.L. Safat P.O. Box 4090 Cable: HAMSEF - KUWAIT Phone: 210-07 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES Philipsburg Utilities Co., N.V. Inc. Post Office Box 18 Philipsburg, St. Maarten SAUDI ARABIA National Auto Parts Distributor Co. P.O. Box 79 Alkhobar Cable: NAPCO ALKHOBAR Phone: 42663 SPAIN Navinter, S.A. Muelle de Uribitarte (Esquina Deposito Franco) Bilbao -1, Phone: 215405 y 215261 SWEDEN A/B Eskilstuna-Boden P.O. Box 476 S-40 1 27 Goteborg 1 Phone: 031/27 54 20 TAIWAN Fu Yen Trading Co., Ltd. 83, Chin Hua Street, Taipei Taiwan Cable: WAIC0 - TAIWAN Phone: 25216 THAILAND United Machinery Co. Ltd. 406-414 Worachakr Rd. P.O. Box 1618, Near S.A.B. Bangkok Cable: UMAC BANGKOK Phone: 211673, 217223, 212481 UNITED KINGDOM Burnyeat Ltd. 5/9 Dod Street Limehouse, London, E. 14 Phone: LIMEHOUSE (01-987) 2484 Butlers Stores Ltd. 13/16 West Smithfield, London, E.C. 1 Phone: City (01-248) 1212 Mersey Equipment Co., Arc House 121 Corporation Street Birkenhead, Liverpool, Cheshire Phone: Birkenhead (051-647) 9751 Watts Finchem Ltd., Ships Stores 9 St. Helens Place London, E.C. 3 Phone: London Wall (01-588) 5216 UNITED STATES Gulf Coast Marine Supply 501 Stimrod Road Mobile, Alabama Phone: (205) 432-4465 Marine Sales, Inc. 835 Tchoupitoulas St. New Orleans, La. Phone: 524-6549 Pedley Knowles Co. 533 Second Street San Francisco, California Phone: (415) 421-9500 Texas Marine & Industrial Supply 8050 Harrisburg Blvd. Houston, Texas Phone: (713) 923-9771 H.S. White Co. 251 19th Street Brooklyn, New York Phone: (212) 768-5300 O.C. & K.R. Wilson, Inc. 32 N. Moore St. New York, New York Phone: (212) 227-2326 For names of other distributors, contact Devcon offices on facing page. Hitachi's Sakai Yard Delivers 235-Type Tanker The Hoko Maru will be placed in service between Japan and the Persian Gulf. The 235-Type tanker Hoko Maru for The Sanko Steamship Co., Ltd., which had been under construction at Hitachi Zosen's Sakai Shipyard, was completed and delivered to her owner on February 26, 1973. This ship is one of the standard- type ships developed by Hitachi Zosen. Five of this type, including the Hoko Maru, were completed, and four more are scheduled for completion by the end of 1974. The 237,800-dwt tanker has the following approximate measure- ments : length between perpendicu- lars, 1,017 feet; breadth, 174 feet, and depth, 82 feet. She is powered by a Hitachi UA-360-type steam- turbine main engine with a maxi- mum output of 36,000 hp, deliver- ing a trial speed of 16.303 knots. The Hoko Maru is equipped with an eductor stripping system to im- prove unloading efficiency ; a fixed tank cleaning system, as well as conventional portable devices; an inert gas system, and, for corrosion protection, the inside of the cargo oil tanks are coated with tar epoxy paint, and the cargo oil pipes are made of anticorrosive cast steel. PORT ENGINEERS ELECT NEW OFFICERS: Shown above at a meeting recently held at the Downtown Athletic Club, New York City, are the newly elected officers of The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, N.Y., Inc. Seated, left to right: William P. Towner, 2nd vice president; Philip A. Donahue, president, and Joseph Thelgie, 1st vice president. Standing, left to right: Harry H. Hunt, secretary-treasurer; L. Paul Ackermann, steering committee chairman; Harlan T. Haller, a director; John C. Fox Jr., chairman of the board; Edward English, program and entertainment committee chair- man, and John Antonetz, papers and technical committee chairman. April 1, 1973 41
