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C.J.G. Wentz To Head

MarAd's Eastern Region

Ports-Intermodal Office

C.J.G. Went*

Furthering the development of the recently created Office of Ports and Intermodal Systems by the

Maritime Administration, U.S. De- partment of Commerce, Capt.

Thomas A. King, Eastern Region

Director of the agency, has desig- nated C.J.G. Wentz to head this office in the Eastern Region.

One of the chief objectives of this new office is to serve as a fa- cilitator and advocate of Ameri- can-flag shipping's participation in intermodal transportation. It recog- nizes the need for the establish- ment of an all-embracing system that would include all modes of transportation and promote the closest possible cooperation among them, a matter of particular rele- vance in fully implementing the concept of containerization and re- lated unitization methods.

The Office of Ports and Inter- modal Systems will promote new cargo handling concepts, systems and the equipment for the carriage of cargo in domestic and interna- tional commerce. It will furnish in- formation to shippers and carriers on new legislation and regulations affecting the movement of contain- ers in domestic and foreign trade and will assist in the promotion and development of the U.S. ports, including modes of access to and from ports, traffic flow within a port area, and the physical layout of piers, wharves, docks and marine terminals.

Research projects are now being conducted on such subjects as the development of container consoli- dation centers, the integration of inland waterways into the LASH/

Seabee systems, the state of con- tainer standardization and certi- fication, constraints on the move- ment of specialized containers, equipment needed at intermodal terminals, and the use of E.D.P. in container systems.

The Eastern Region of the Mari- time Administration is comprised of the states on the Atlantic Sea- board and the Great Lakes and also includes West Virginia, Vermont,

Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin

Islands.

Eastern Region headquarters is located in the Federal Building at 26 Federal Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10007. Mr. Wentz's telephone num- ber is (212) 264-1150.

Marseilles Ship Repair

Facilities To Expand

An expansion of the ship repair facilities in the port of Marseilles is planned to permit vessels of up to 350,000 tons to be drydocked. Cost of the project is 125 million francs ($23 million), and will be financed 60 percent by the- national Govern- ment and 40 percent by the port. It is expected to be ready for service before the close of 1973.

Plans call for the construction of a new drydock and other facilities necessary for the accommodation of new giant tankers, which are soon expected to be discharging their car- go there.

Following completion of the work,

Marseilles will be the leading ship repair center in France and one of the most important in the entire

Mediterranean area.

Vessels aggregating 28.8 million tons were repaired in the port during 1969, which was the largest volume of shipping handled in recent years.

The 190,000-ton tanker Esso Bern- icia was the largest vessel repaired and occupied the port's largest dry- dock. Of the ships repaired in Mar- seilles last year, 290 were French and 212 were foreign. All of the larger ones were tankers, including all ships in excess of 30,000 tons. Eleven of the vessels repaired were tankers of 50,000 tons or more.

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