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President Nominates Andrew E. Gibson Maritime Administrator Andrew E. Gibson Andrew E. Gibson has been nominated by President Nixon to be Maritime Administrator. In making this nomination, President Nixon has broken with tradition by appointing an administrator who is thoroughly familiar with the mer-chant marine, based on education and experience. Mr. Gibson was graduated from the Massachussetts Maritime Acad-emy in 1942. Following graduation, he joined the United States Lines as a junior officer. In 1945 he be-came the youngest captain in the history of U.S. Lines and was given command of the Liberty-ship Le-onidas. Following the war. Mr. Gibson worked for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and continued his education by earning an eco-nomics degree from Brown Univer-sity. In 1950 he was called by the Navy to active service. He served as budget controller for the Mili-tary Sea Transportation Service in Brooklyn. In 1953 Mr. Gibson joined Grace Lines. He served Grace in turn as assistant treasurer, cargo manager, terminals manager, assistant vice-president for cargo and terminal operations and finally as senior vice-president in charge of opera-tions. In 1967, he left Grace Lines to take his present position as vice-president of the Diebold Group in New York, a management consul-tant firm. MarAd Requests Plans For Ship Construction From U.S. Operators The Maritime Administration has solicited from U.S.-flag operators fu-ture ship construction plans. The re-plies are to cover programs through the middle of 1974. This has been done twice before? the last time being a year ago?with-out noticeable effect on the volume of available construction subsidy or how it might be distributed. MarAd wants operators to submit a detailed description of the trans-portation service they intend to offer with the new ships, including plans for the land-ocean interchange of freight, the routes to be served, ex-pected traffic and economic premise for the service, projections of reven-ues, manning scales, wage costs, and financing, estimate of the amount of construction subsidy and mortgage in-surance to be needed, and the number March 15, 1969 19 of ships to be built and the number and type to be replaced. Final responses are due by April 15. MarAd explained that the agency expects to "place major reliance on the responses ... in its program plan-ning during the coming five years .. ." Last year 35 companies responded. Their plans called for construction of as many as 220 ships. Of these, 35 to 40 would be bulk carriers, 25 would be tankers and the remainder liner-types of advanced design. Detsco Acquires Debardeleben Marine? Forms New Subsidiary Detsco, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has completed the acquisition of Debardeleben Marine Corp. of Tampa, Fla., and has formed a new subsidiary, Marine Engineering Systems, Inc., it was announced by Vernon Shaw, chairman of the board of Detsco. According to Mr. Shaw, Debar-deleben's terminals in Tampa will now be called Detsco Terminals, Inc. and will be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. Marine Engineering Systems, a Houston-based firm, will provide a wide range of services including naval architecture, marine and ocean engineering, Mr. Shaw said. As a result of the acquisition, Detsco will become a publicly traded company in the over-the-counter market. CLEARING HOUSE FOR MARINE DIFFICULTIES SINCE 1894 / 17 BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK, 10004?(212) 944-1048 19