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Commerce Secretary

Addresses Dinner Of

Nat'l Maritime Council

Secretary of Commerce Frederick

B. Dent told guests at the second annual New York National Mari- time Council Unity Dinner that the occasion "... attests to the new awareness on the part of the many diverse, and previously divided, maritime segments that the future growth of the U.S. shipping indus- try can best be achieved by unified, cooperative efforts to resolve prob- lems."

Mr. Dent further stressed the need for industry-wide cooperation by noting: "Today, the United

States still remains the leading na- tion in world trade, but in recent years other industrialized nations have effectively penetrated our ex- port markets, and the American- flag fleet as a whole ranks a poor sixth in world fleet standings."

Mr. Dent's statement is a re- working of a fact that the NMC has sought to publicize and change —namely, that the participation of

U.S.-flag vessels in this country's oceanborne commerce has fallen below 6 percent.

The NMC dinner, held April 4 at New York's Plaza Hotel, is one of a series at which shippers, as the guests cti leading labor and man- agement officials of the American merchant marine, are impressed with the importance of a strong

U.S. merchant marine, and the need to boost the percentage of cargo carried on American-flag vessels.

Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent is pictured as he spoke before the NMC din- ner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Other speakers at the dinner in- cluded Laurence J. Buser, presi- dent and chief executive officer of

American Export Lines and chair- man of the NMC's Eastern Region

Action Group; John P. Scally, manager of export distribution for 'General Electric Company and chairman of the Shipper Advisory

Group for the NMC's Eastern

Region Action Group; Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers Interna- tional Union, and Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce for Maritime Af- fairs Robert J. Blackwell.

The National Maritime Council is comprised of all segments of the

U.S. maritime industry—manage- ment, labor and Government. The

Council promotes programs to re- build a strong and viable U.S. mer- chant marine capable of providing shippers with the finest and most consistently operated maritime fleet in the world.

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