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National Cargo Bureau

Elects Thomas Smith

Chairman Of Board

Thomas J. Smith

The 23rd Annual Meetings of

Members and Directors of Na- tional Cargo Bureau, Inc., were held April 8, 1974, at 99 John

Street, New York City. Thomas J.

Smith, president, Farrell Lines In- corporated, was elected chairman of the board of directors of the bu- reau, succeeding Robert A. Mur- phy. John R. Walbridge, resident secretary of the Insurance Com- pany of America, was elected depu- ty chairman of the board, and Neils

W. Johnsen, chairman, Central Gulf

Lines, Inc. was elected treasurer.

Capt. Hewlett R. Bishop, president,

Capt. S. Fraser Sammis, vice presi- dent and chief surveyor, and Jerome

P. Scully, vice president and secre- tary, continue in their respective positions.

The members elected the follow- ing to the board of directors: Rear

Adm. J.D. Chase, US'N, Command- er, Military Sealift Command;

Thomas O. Clark, vice president,

Marine Commercial Union Compa- nies ; G.C. Halstead, president, Al- coa Steamship Company, Inc.;

G.V.S. Pepperell, president, Talbot

Bird & Co.," Inc.; T.J. Smith, presi- dent, Farrell Lines Incorporated;

Capt. A.P. Spidle, vice president, marine operations, Prudential-

Grace Lines, Inc., and J.R. Wal- bridge, resident secretary, Insur- ance Company of North America.

In his annual chairman's mes- sage, Mr. Murphy commented on the bureau's operations during 1973, in which 26,751 surveys were conducted. The chairman reported on the bureau's cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard and the State

Department in international mari- time matters pertaining to cargo carriage through the Inter-Govern- mental Maritime Consultative Or- ganization. Captain Bishop was chairman of the IMCO Sub-Com- mittee on Containers and Cargoes, assisted by Captain Sammis, who also served with Capt. Donald W.

Gates as advisors to the U.S. Coast

Guard on the IMCO Sub-Commit- tee on the Carriage of Dangerous

Goods. Mr. Murphy mentioned the current educational program where- by the bureau has been assisting the U.S. Coast Guard in presenting color slides with a narration ex- plaining the incorporation of the

Coast Guard regulations for water transport of packaged hazardous

May 1, 1974 materials from Title 46 to Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

The chairman also reported on the distribution of cargo stowage book- lets, the bureau's self-study course on ship's stability, and its National

Safety Council participation.

In a special report, Captain Bish- op, president, informed the mem- bers of a number of projects which are of extreme importance to the maritime industry. The IMCO

Code of Safe Practice for Bulk

Cargoes is now only a recommend- ation, and Captain Bishop advised the meeting that this code should become mandatory not only in the

United States but also worldwide.

He cited instances where the code was completely ignored in the transport of ore concentrate car- goes. He appealed to the marine fraternity, steamship owners and operators and Government mem- bers to do what they could in order to achieve this goal.

Captain Bishop also informed the meeting that the bureau would continue its active participation with the U.S. Coast Guard in re- writing the regulations on the car- riage of grain cargoes.

The bureau is a nonprofit organ- ization dedicated to the safe stow- age and securing of cargoes on vessels and containers. Its member- ship is composed of Government, steamship and marine insurance underwriting representatives.

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