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Port Of Los Angeles

Paper Selected For

National Competition "Master Planning Considerations for the Port of Los Angeles," a paper prepared for the Los Angeles

Metropolitan Section of The Soci- ety of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers by a port staff mem- ber, has been selected to enter the national competition of that organ- ization.

The paper, written by Donald A.

Walsh, the port's director of plan- ning and research, was presented to the local chapter of SNAME last

September at a monthly meeting.

Mr. Walsh's paper was selected from those submitted at the month- ly meetings, and will now be judged along with one from each of the other 14 sections of SNAME, located in the United States and

Canada.

The winner in the national

SNAME competition will receive the Admiral E.L. Cochrane Award, which includes a small honorarium.

In his report on master planning considerations for the Port of Los

Angeles, Mr. Walsh defines master planning in general, notes estab- lishing goals and objectives, and elaborates on the methodology of port master planning.

Mr. Walsh uses the Port of Los

Angeles master plan as an example in his paper. This plan will be com-

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Some important parts of the mas- ter plan are the eight geographical subdivisions of the port in land use considerations, a marketing study, a financial plan and a land acquisi- tion schedule. An overall audit is also one of the 17 separate elements of the master plan.

Many of the segments will be completed by private consultants hired by the port, while the remain- der will be done by Port and City of Los Angeles planners.

Gdynia America Line

Appoints Harold Holden

Harold G. Holden

C. Thomas Traficante, president of Gdynia America Line, general agents for Polish Ocean Lines., has announced the appointment of

Harold G. Holden as director of marketing and sales.

Mr. Holden brings 17 years of di- versified shipping experience to his new position. He has most recently served as president of Great Lakes

Overseas, Inc. in New York, and as consultant for shipping operations for Orba Corporation in West

Caldwell, N.J.

Polish Ocean lines has added two new semicontainer vessels to its existing fleet, and is expecting de- livery of four additional semicon- tainer vessels commencing July 1974. This expansion and the ap- pointment of Mr. Holden coincides with a recent move by the company to new and larger offices at One

World Trade Center, New York

City.

Vancouver Shipyards

Wins $14-Million

Trailer Ferry Contract

The British 'Columbia govern- ment has awarded a $14-million contract to Vancouver Shipyards

Co., Ltd., the West Coast ship- building division of Genstar Ltd.,

Montreal, for the construction of a 457-foot trailer ferry. Construction is to start late this summer, with completion expected by February 1976.

Vancouver Shipyards is present- ly engaged in a $3-million expan- sion program which will provide the company with a large ship- building berth, allowing the com- any to build ships ranging in size up to 50,000 deadweight tons. 34 Maritime Reporter/Engineering Hews