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McMullen Associates To Study West Coast Ship Repair Market The international consulting firm of John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., has been selected by the Port of Port- land, Ore., to undertake a study of the West Coast ship repair market and to recommend plans for the ex- pansion of the ship repair facilities in the port area. The study will involve a complete survey of West Coast marine activity leading to a projection of drydocking requirements through 1985, by size and type of ship. The capacity of West Coast ship repairers to satisfy these requirements will be assessed and an economic analysis undertaken of different possible levels of expan- sion, designed to indicate the poten- tially most advantageous level of in- vestment in new or expanded facili- ties. John J. McMullen Associates, Inc. is an internationally known firm of naval architects, marine engineers and transportation consultants en- gaged in all aspects of shipping and shipbuilding throughout the world. One of their current projects is the development of what will be the larg- est ship repair facility in the world, at Dubai on the Arabian Gulf. This shipyard, for which McMullen de- veloped the overall concept, pre- pared- the economic feasibility study and designed the business plan, will incorporate three giant graving docks, one large enough for tankers of 1,000,000 deadweight tons and the oth- er two each large enough for tankers of 400,000 deadweight tons. McMullen Associates is also re- sponsible for the planning, construc- tion and operation of a new ship- building yard in Curacao in the Carib- bean, to be known as Santa Ana Shipyards Corporation. This ship- yard, in which the Island Government of Curacao and McMullen will be partners, is planned to construct ves- sels of up to 80,000 deadweight tons. An associate company of John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., Norton, Lilly and Company, Inc., is well- known in West Coast marine circles as a leading steamship agency with offices in Seattle, Wash., San Fran- cisco, and Los Angeles, Calif. Distillate Fuels Highlights Meeting Of Naval Engineers The Tidewater Chapter of the American Society of Naval Engi- neers, at their first meeting of the 1973-74 season at the Little Creek Amphibious Base Officers Club, Norfolk, Va., presented a program on the Navy Distillate Fuel Con- version Program. Comdr. Robert A. Teague, Naval Ship Systems Command Distillate Fuel Project Coordinator, traced the evolution of Navy fuels from coal to the inception of the Distil- late Fuel Program. During the presentation, he de- scribed highlights of the Navy's shift to "clean fuel" for all conven- tionally boilered steam-driven sur- face ships and detailed many of the major problems, such as pump standardization, encountered in achieving the program objective of converting all NSFO (Navy Special Fuel Oil) fueled ships. Due to Commander Teague's in- formative presentation, consider- able discussion was generated dur- ing the question and answer period. During the regular business meeting, the chapter officers elect- ed during a recent executive com- mittee meeting were announced. Comdr. J.A. Siebel, USCGR, ma- rine consultant, former vice chair- man, was elected chairman to re- place Capt. W.E. McGarrah, USN, who left the area for a Washington assignment. Also elected were R.S. Gray, contracting officer SUP- SHIPS 5, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, vice chairman; Lt. Comdr. E.S. McGinley, USN, Submarine Type Desk, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, secretary; Lt. J.T. Hickman, USNR-R, nuclear engineer, Nor- folk Naval Shipyard, treasurer, and R. Bock, Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., hospitality chair- man. National Propeller Club Reelects Jasper Baker Jasper S. Baker, a vice presi- dent of United Fruit Co. in Wash- ington, D.C., has 'been reelected as national president of The Propeller Club of the United States. He has been active in the organization for more than 20 years. Elected with Mr. Baker at the San Fran- cisco national convention were George J. Gmelch, executive vice president of Pacific Far East Line, San Francisco, 'Calif., first vice president; Lloyd A. Strickland, vice president of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., New Orleans, La., second vice president; James P. McAllister, president of McAllister Brothers, New York, N.Y., third vice presi- dent ; A.R. Philbrick Jr., assistant superintendent of the Texas Mari- time Academy, Galveston, Texas, vice president for student ports, and A.C. Filiatrault, executive sec- retary-treasurer. Named as regional vice presi- dents were David S. Walker, Bos- ton Towboat Co., Boston, Mass., for the North Atlantic; Milton G. Nottingham, Peralta Shipping Agency, Inc., Washington, D.C., Serving the Marine Industry for over 25 years. BEFORE YOU PUT IN FOR REPAIRS CALL: SLOCUM RON WORKS MARINE & GENERAL CONTRACTORS POST OFFICE BOX 2506 MOBILE, ALABAMA (205) 432-5594 Middle Atlantic; Neal L.C. Har- rington, Harrington & Co., Miami, Fla., Southeast; Capt. C. Ray North, Gulf Oil Trading Co., Beau- mont, Texas, West Gulf; J. Merle Lemley, State Employment .'Securi- ty Division, Little Rock, Ark., Mississippi Valley. Also named, Neil H. Whitehead, Louisville, Ky., Ohio Valley; Mi- chael M. Scheidt, American Steam- ship Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Lower Great Lakes; C. Thomas Burke, executive director, DuluthiPort Au- thority, Upper Great Lakes; Don- ald G. Foss, Puget Sound Freight Lines, Tacoma, Wash., North Pa- cific Coast; Capt. William V. Fi- gari, Shipowners & Merchants Towboat Co., San Francisco, Calif., South Pacific 'Coast; Fabio N. Ali- otti, steamship agent, Genoa, Italy, the Mediterranean, and Charles E. Botts Jr., Xtra Corp., Yokohama, Japan, Asiatic region. Ocean Fleets Ltd. Appoints Capt. Arnold Capt. S.R. Arnold has been ap- pointed Nautical Adviser Desig- nate of Ocean Fleets Limited, Liv- erpool, England. He will take over the appointment at the end of Feb- ruary, 1974, from Capt. A.C. Sparks, who retires. Captain Arnold joined Alfred Holt & Co. in 1936 as a midship- man and was appointed master in 1959. After commanding a number of Ocean's conventional cargo- liners, he became the first master of Ocean's first Far East container- ship, the 58,889-gross-ton Tokyo Bay, in 1972. He has since com- manded two more of Ocean's four Far East containerships, which are operated by Overseas Containers Limited (OCL), and manned by Ocean Fleets. Before taking up his new ap- pointment in February, Captain Arnold will visit those ports in America and West Africa with which he is not already familiar. $6.5-Million Contract To Eguitable Equipment Equitable Equipment Company, Inc., New Orleans, La., has been awarded a contract 'by Union Tank Car Company of 'Chicago, 111., for the construction of 180 LASH lighters 'for 'Central Gulf Lines, Inc. The total estimated value of the lighters is $9 million. Equitable Equipment 'Company's part of the contract is approximately $6.5 mil- lion. The lighters will 'be built at Equitable's yards in Madisonville and New Orleans. Jack R. Kruizenga, president of Union Tank Car Co. and C.M. Keeney, president of Equitable Equipment Company, Inc., signed the contract in Chicago. Equitable just completed work on 50 LASH lighters for Pacific Far East Line, Inc., and is present- ly building 450 lighters for Water- man Steamship Corporation. Equit- able, the world's largest builder of LASH and SEA'BEE barges, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trini- ty Industries, Inc. SHIP RERAIR OVERHAUL CONVERSION 40 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
