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Shipping Leaders To Attend Special Luncheon To Be Held During Shipping Exposition Leaders of the shipping and transportation industries will join Charles D. Baker, deputy under-secretary of transportation, Department of Transportation, on the dais of the All In-dustry Shipping Luncheon, which will be held on Tuesday, September 16 in the Grand Ball-room of the New York Ililton, New York, N.Y. Mr. Baker is the guest of honor and prin-cipal speaker at the luncheon which is being held in conjunction with the 2nd International Shipping, Containerization and Marine Engi-neering Exposition, which will be at the New York Coliseum on September 15-18. The industry leaders are Armour S. Arm-strong, office of the secretary of transporta-tion ; Ralph E. Casey, executive vice-president of American Institute of Merchant Shipping; John T. Cassidy, senior vice-president, Dart Containerline; Alexander P. Chopin, chairman, New York Shipping Association; Peter E. Edwards, Foreign Commerce Club of New York; Roger H. Gilman, director of planning and development, Port of New York Authori-ty ; Harold F. Hammond, president, Trans-portation Association of America; R. P. Holu-bowicz, executive vice-president, United States National Committee, ICHCA ; Edwin M. Hood, president. Shipbuilders Council of America; Jacques Leblanc, president. Dart Container-line; Randolph Long, publisher Marine Engi-neering/Log; Rear Adm. Gordon McLintock; superintendent, U.S. Merchant Marine Acade-my; John J. McMullen, president, United States Lines; Arthur Novacek, president, Grace Line; Clifford B. O'Hara, director of port commerce, Port of New York Authority; Eugene Pollock, publisher, Container News; Ted Przedpelski, president, New York Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association; Arthur C. Rutzen, director, U.S. Department of Commerce; Michael Stramiello Jr., regional commissioner of U.S. Customs; Commissioner William Tobin, New York City Department of Ports and Terminals, and Adm. John M. Will, chairman of the board, American Export Is-brandtsen Lines. Standard Oil Of California Orders 261,000-DWT Tankers And Charters 227,000-Ton Ship Standard Oil Company of California has an-nounced plans for the addition of three more supertankers to its international fleet, raising the total tonnage of new ships the company has contracted for to about 3,250,000 tons. O. N. Miller, California Standard chairman, said the company has ordered two new vessels of 261,000 tons each and will acquire a new 227,000-ton tanker on long-term charter. The two 261,000-tonners will be constructed at Nagasaki, Japan, and delivered to the com-pany in the spring of 1972. The charter ship, now under construction, will join the com-pany's service in mid-1970. In June, Standard accepted delivery of the first of six 210,000-ton supertankers, which have been under construction at shipyards in Sweden and Japan. The company said four oth-er vessels in the 250,000-ton to 260,000-ton class are on order in the Netherlands and Japan, and another time-chartered 210,000-tonner is being built. All supertankers on order to Standard will be in service by 1972. Eastern Canadian Section Of SNAME Announces 1969-70 Meeting Schedule The Eastern Canadian Section of The So-ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engi-neers has announced its meeting schedule for the 1969-70 season. Meetings will be held on October 7, November 4, and December 2, 1969 and January 13 and 20, February 3 and 24, March 10 and April 14, 1970. A meeting date for May will be announced later. The officers and committee chairman for the coming season are: D. M. Craig, chairman; Capt. K. P. Farrel, RCN, vice-chairman; R. G. Hall, secretary-treasurer; G. E. Kristinsson, D. R. Moreira and L. G. Austin, executive committee members; R. Sinclair, papers chair-man ; A. H. Stevenson, meetings chairman; C. H. Owston, publicity chairman; J. G. Ger-man, membership chairman; T. D. Anderson, Sections relation chairman; R. Lowery, sub-committee organization, and J. H. Rensink, past chairman. All the above members form the Section's executive committee. R.D. Reiser To Serve With APL In New Post Raymond D. Keiser recently joined Ameri-can President Lines, San Francisco, in the new-ly-created post of general manager-Atlantic Division, it was announced by Peter T. Albert, APL vice-president-marketing. Mr. Keiser, who will be headquartered in APL's New York office, is a veteran of 25 years' experience in freight transportation. Most recently he was with Flying Tiger Line as general terminal manager in New York and as assistant director of marketing in Los An-geles. Mr. Keiser attended Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Academy of Advanced Traffic in New York. 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