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American Delegation

From U.S. Waterways

Visits Soviet Union

A six-man team of American in- land waterways experts embarked on a two-week visit to the Soviet

Union on June 3 to compare the

U.S. and Soviet river transporta- tion systems.

Co-sponsored by the Maritime

Administration and the Depart- ment of Transportation, the visit was part of a cultural exchange program arranged by the Depart- ment of Staite, under which a simi- lar delegation from the Soviet

Union toured the United States last year.

According to Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs

Robert J. Blackwell, who .heads the

Maritime Administration, the ex- change will provide officials in both nations with up-to-date informa- tion on how the other realizes the transportation potential of its in- land waterways network.

Specific areas of interest to the

American delegation, which com- prised both Government and indus- try representatives, include nation- al waterways planning, port and waterway facilities, vessel opera- tions, aids to navigation, and com- pany management, Mr. Blackwell said.

Burton T. Kyle, Chief of the

Maritime Administration's Office of Domestic Shipping, headed the

U.S. team.

Members of the delegation from industry were H.E. Breit, president of Breit Engineering, Inc., a naval architectural firm ; Richard P. Con- erly, president of Pott Industries,

Inc., the corporate parent of an in- land barge line and shipbuilder;

John A. Creedy, president of the

Water Transport Association, and

James R. Smith, president of The

American Waterways Operators,

Inc.

The other Government represen- tative on the delegation was Wil- liam R. Riedel, Chief of the U.S.

Coast Guard's Ports and Water- ways Planning Staff.

The delegation's itinerary in- cluded visits to seven cities in the

Soviet Union — Moscow, Volgo- grad, Leningrad, Irkutsk, Bratsk,

Novosibirsk, and Kiev.

Bertram Yacht Names

Midwest Sales Mgr.

Patrick D. Cunningham

Bertram Yacht, Miami, Fla., has announced the establishment of a regional sales office in Detroit,

Mich., and has named Patrick D.

Cunningham as Midwest regional sales manager.

In making the announcement,

George Couzens, general sales man- ager of Bertram Yacht, said Mr.

Cunningham would direct the com- pany's ambitious dealer develop- ment and sales management pro- grams in the Midwest.

Mr. Cunningham has an exten- sive marine industry background, coming to Bertram from Mark

Twain Marine where he served as district sales manager. He previ- ously held a similar post with

Chrysler Marine's boat and out- board division.

In addition to Mr. Cunningham's appointment, Mr. Couzens an- nounced that James C. Ramsey has been promoted from regional sales manager to assistant sales man- ager, and would work out of the

Miami, Fla., office in an adminis- trative capacity.

Also promoted in the Bertram

Yacht sales department were

James A. Schaefer, named sales ad- ministrator, and Veronica Patter- son, appointed assistant sales ad- ministrator.

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