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Newport News Awarded

Conversion Contract

Deepsea Ventures, Inc., subsidi- ary of Tenneco, Inc., has awarded a contract to Newport News Ship- building & Dry Dock Company,

Newport News, Va., for the con- version of the cargo ship Deepsea

Miner into a prototype ocean-min- ing vessel.

The conversion of the Deepsea

Miner, which is a 322-foot-long cargo vessel of 7,500 dwt, calls for the installation of a large center well similar to that used on off- shore oil-well drilling vessels.

Container Exposition

Set For New Orleans

May 20-21-22, 1971

The New Orleans International

Containerization and Shipping Ex- position, Centroport, USA Preview has been scheduled for the River- gate Exhibition Center, May 20- 21-22, 1971 according to an an- nouncement by Herman J. Penn, general manager of the exhibition building. The show will be pro- duced by G & M Production, Inc. in cooperation with various port interests.

A preliminary survey of potenti- al exhibitors this spring by the production company revealed a great deal of interest in such an exposition to focus attention to the new facilities of the port now un- der construction and on the draw- ing boards. A sixty-million-dollar modernization program is now un- derway with the first phase sched- uled for completion in the fall of 71. Thirty million dollars was ap- propriated for the Port of New

Orleans expansion and moderniza- tion last year.

One of the features of the ex- position will be a preview of the master plan for future develop- ment of the Port of New Orleans.

Centroport, USA, the name that has been given to the massive pro- ject, will require 30 years for com- pletion and will include an esti-

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Firms expected to exhibit at the exposition next spring include manufacturers of containers, con- tainer-handling equipment, trans- portation firms, other ports, for- eign and domestic freight forward- ers, agents, and all other related equipment and services interested in the growing containerization market.

President of the exposition is S.

J. Gefen. The exposition manager is John Mullis. The show offices are located at 1136 International

Trade Mart in New Orleans.

American Export Forms

Company To Integrate

Transport Services

Robert S. Lawson

The formation of Inter-Freight,

Inc. to provide a wide range of domestic and international trans- port services by road, rail, and ship under single carrier responsi- bility was announced by Jakob Is- brandtsen, president, American

Export Industries, Inc.

Three years in the planning and formative stages, Inter-Freight will integrate the freight services of both AEI-owned carriers and independent carriers to offer ship- pers for the first time a transpor- tation "package" which AEI says will be simpler, more efficient, and more economical than the frag- mented modes of transportation in use today.

Robert S. Lawson, a senior vice- president of American Export In- dustries, has been named president of Inter-Freight, Inc. Before join- ing AEI Mr. Lawson was associ- ated with Litton Industries.

Inter-Freight, Inc. will serve shippers through two operating arms : Inter-Freight Continental in

Europe, and Inter-Freight Inter- national in the United States. 30 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News