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Delta Line Appoints

Thomas W. Harrelson

Thomas W. Harrelson

Thomas W. Harrelson has joined

Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., New

Orleans, La., as executive assis- tant, according" to an announce- ment by Capt. J.W. Clark, Delta president.

Mr. Harrelson, a native of Kins- ton, N.C. and a 1966 graduate of the United States Merchant Ma- rine Academy at Kings Point,

N.Y., served two years at sea as a deck officer with Grace Lines, in- cluding intermittent shoreside as- signments with that company. He comes to Delta directly from a three-year tour of duty as special assistant to the superintendent of the Merchant Marine Academy at

Kings Point.

Upon his graduation from the

Academy, Mr. Harrelson received the Albert V. Moore Award in

Marine Transportation, and the

American Bureau of Shipping

Award for scholastic achievement and leadership.

Offshore Terminal

Study Contract

Awarded By MarAd

Soros Associates, a New York

City firm of consulting engineers, has been awarded a contract for a study of the feasibility of multi- purpose offshore terminals in the

United States, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs

A.E. Gibson has announced. "The purpose of this study," ac- cording to Mr. Gibson, "is to help pave the way for the introduction of 'supersized' bulk carriers— along with the economies inherent in using these vessels—into U.S. foreign trade."

Mr. Gibson pointed out that while there are now over 200 ships of 100,000 deadweight tons and greater in the world fleet, they are barred from using nearly all U.S. ports because of channel depth and width limitations. "Our ship- pers, who would benefit from low- er transportation costs if these ships were used, are being penal- ized by the fact that we have no facilities to accommodate them," he said.

Aided by Ocean Science and En- gineering, Inc., of Bethesda, Md., and Long Beach, Calif., Soros As- sociates will perform three tasks under the contract. They are: (1) projecting bulk-cargo shipment re- quirements for U.S. industry over the next 30 years on a geographic basis and the capability of present bulk-cargo distribution systems to handle them ; (2) comparing alter- ative methods of using "super- sized" ships to carry these cargoes, including the use of feeder vessels and pipelines, and the possibility of moving user industries to sites where these ships can berth; and (3) formulating advanced concepts in design, construction, and opera- tion of offshore island terminals, including development of economic and technical data, if the first parts of the study indicate the need for such facilities.

This study, which will require about a year to complete at an estimated cost of $197,000, is the first phase in a three-part under- taking, Mr. Gibson explained.

Specific privately sponsored de- velopment studies, conducted joint- ly with Federal and state agencies to define contract specifications, necessary legislative proposals, and operating agreements among pro- posed users, will follow as the sec- ond phase. The final part would consist of the construction and testing of one prototype offshore terminal.

In the present study, Soros As- sociates will explore ways in which activities considered undesirable in populated areas, such as power plants and waste disposal, can be integrated in the design of an off- shore terminal island to remove them from inhabited zones and to help defray the cost of the struc- ture. the ship, opens the bow, is the ramp.

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