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New American Institute Of Merchant Shipping Elects Officers And Board Members Ralph E. Casey Albert E. May The board of directors of the newly created American Institute of Merchant Shipping, known as AIMS, has announced the election of the following officers: Ralph E. Casey, former president of the American Merchant Marine Institute (AMMI), executive vice-president; Albert E. May, for-mer assistant executive director, Committee of American Steamship Lines (CASL), vice-president; Ralph B. Dewey, former president of the Pacific American Steamship Association (PASSA), regional vice-president, with head-quarters in San Francisco; Parker S. Wise, former secretary-treasurer of AMMI, will serve in that capacity with the new organiza-tion. AIMS' member companies own a total of over 500 U.S.-flag merchant ships representing over half of the privately owned vessels in the 905-ship active merchant marine. The AIMS ships include the overwhelming majority of the American-flag vessels constructed since World War II and all of the modern U.S. cargo liners built in recent years under the 1936 Merchant Marine Act's replacement program. AIMS' company ships aggregate 7.2-million deadweight tons and the membership is com-prised of tanker firms with vessels in interna-tional and domestic trades, lines operating ships under subsidy-differential contracts and non-subsidized companies with dry cargo ships in the foreign and coastal trades. In outlining the goals for AIMS, Mr. Casey said: "AIMS was created in an effort to elim-inate the differences among management seg-ments with respect to maritime issues. It has been recognized for some time that the diffu-sion of industry groups has seriously impaired the effectiveness of its voice before Congress and the executive branch of the government. "While, admittedly, AIMS does not even now represent the ultimate in solidifying all maritime management, we are hopeful that in time our membership will grow to effect an all-inclusive national shipowners' association. That has been accomplished in most maritime countries of the world, and there is no logical reason why it cannot be accomplished here. To that end, it is the ordained purpose of AIMS to recognize and reconcile the special interests of all segments of the American mer-chant marine. The overriding objective is the establishment and maintenance of a strong, well-balanced American-flag fleet, adequate to the needs of this nation for both commerce and defense." Mr. Casey said AIMS has pledged to work closely with all segments of the industry, both labor and management, as well as government, to revitalize the American-flag fleet. "The long-range outlook is good." he said. "AIMS looks to the new administration for a bold new pro-gram to revitalize the American merchant ma-rine. President Nixon has promised to do this. We in AIMS agree with the President that the time has come for 'new departures, new solutions and new vitality' in American ship-ping." Mr. Casey said his new position presented "a great challenge;" that the joining of com-panies representing different fleet segments in a common effort to pull the industry out of a "national quagmire of indifference" is the only solution in regaining lost maritime prestige. AIMS hopes to move into new offices in Washington in the near future, Mr. Casey added. The initial members of AIMS include, basi-cally, companies which formerly comprised AMMI, CASL, and PASSA. Additional steam-ship lines have either joined AIMS or expressed an interest in becoming members. AIMS' tem-porary headquarters are located in the former AMMI offices at 919 18th Street, N.W., in Washington. The 15 board members are : W. C. Brodhead, vice-president-transportation, Marine Division, Gulf Oil Corporation, New York; Everett S. Checket, general manager, Marine Transporta-tion Department, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York; Lawrence C. Ford, president, Chevron Shipping Company, San Francisco; Worth B. Fowler, president, American President Lines Ltd., San Francisco; T. J. Fuson, general man-ager, Marine Department, Humble Oil and Re-fining Company, Houston ; Charles Kurz, presi-dent, Keystone Shipping Company, Philadel-phia; John J. McMullen, president, United States Lines, Inc., New York; John I. Mingay, vice-president and general manager, Marine Department, Texaco Inc., New York; William T. Moore Sr., president, Moore-McCormack Lines, New York; Frank A. Nemec, president, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans; Leo C. Ross, president, Pacific Far East Line, Inc., San Francisco; Norman Scott, executive vice-president, Matson Navigation Company, San Francisco; Fred S. 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