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Maritime Transportation

Seminars June 20-23

At SCI In New York

In response to numerous requests from members of the maritime transportation industry throughout the United States and abroad, the

Seamen's Church Institute of New

York will provide two intensive three-day review and training' semi- nars in "Intermodal Transporta- tion, Containerization and Pricing," and in "EDP (Computer) : Its Ap- plication to the Transportation In- dustry," June 20-23, 1974 at SCI, 15 State Street, New York City.

Planned especially for industry personnel, educators, Government and professional groups, and serv- ice personnel to the maritime in- dustry, each seminar will include 20 hours of in-class instruction to provide a maximum amount of up-to-date practical information within a limited period of time. The b 1 seminars are based upon the high- ly acclaimed 12-week maritime courses taught by SCI's evening adult education school, the Frank- lin D. Roosevelt Institute.

Edward Norberg, director of con- ference and regulatory affairs, Dart

Containerline, Inc. and senior lec- turer at the Roosevelt Institute, will conduct the ITCP seminar.

Gerald Walker, statistical systems manager, United States Lines, Inc. and maritime lecturer at the Roose- velt Institute, will teach the EDP program. •In addition to intensive in-class instruction, special guest speakers are scheduled for luncheons and dinners.

Registration is $195, which in- cludes tuition, class materials, housing accommodations at the In- stitute, and all meals and social hours for the three days (except- ing Saturday dinner).

Additional information and de- scriptive brochures, including reg- istration forms, are available by calling Miss Faye Argentine at (212) 269-2710, or by writing to the

Roosevelt Institute, 15 State Street,

New York, N.Y. 10004.

Diamond M Drilling

Acquires 36-Acre

Shipyard In Houston

Diamond M Drilling Company,

Houston, Texas, has announced that the company has acquired a 36-acre shipyard on the Houston

Ship Channel from Metal Arts

Company, a subsidiary of Dixilyn

Corporation.

The facility is located on the north shore near the east end of the channel, off Interstate 10 and adja- cent to the Jacinto Port Industrial

Plant.

Don E. McMahon, president and chief executive officer of Diamond

M, said management considers the shipyard to be a prudent invest- ment, as well as an excellent po- tential support facility for the

Houston-ibased international drill- ing contractor.

Diamond M will lease the ship- yard and support facilities for a two-year period to Port Houston

Barge & Shipyard Corporation.

According to T.J. Bryant Jr., ex- ecutive vice president of Port

Houston Barge, his company will use the yard for the construction of cryogenic barges. 'Phillyship' Relocates

Office In New York

Philadelphia Ship Maintenance

Co., Inc. of Philadelphia, Pa., has announced that it has moved its

New York City office, and is now located in Suite 900 at 25 Broad- way, New York, N.Y. 10004.

Wagstaffe Elected

To Head San Francisco

Shipper Advisory Board

William D. Wagstaffe, general traffic manager, Del Monte Cor- poration, has been elected chairman of the San Francisco National

Maritime Council Shipper Advi- sory Board, according to an an- nouncement by outgoing chairman

Paul O'Leary, vice president, Con- nell Brothers Company.

The Shipper Advisory Board is composed of a group of prominent shippers in the Bay Area who lend their expertise to the American- flag steamship companies in mat- ters of shipping cargoes in inter- national trade. maRine Heavy oum

DOUBLE RUNG, ALUMINUM -raised three diamond grip strut surfaces on all steps give safe, sure footing—all aluminum is 6061-T6 alloy with minimum yield of 38,000 p.s.i.—rungs electrically welded to outer truss plates and internally expanded to inner truss plates. Standard width is 24", standard lengths 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 feet. Ask for literature.

IT'S NEW BY

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New! All purpose cleaning tool

Aurand introduces the Extended Shaft Model M cleaning tool that puts whirling, hardened steel teeth to work to solve those really tough main- tenance and cleaning problems. Double sets of replaceable steel cutter bundles increase the effective cleaning area of the tool from 8" to 13". One man can quickly clean large, flat areas of virtually any hard surface while walking upright. Use wherever removal of stubborn accumulation or buildup such as rust, scale or paint is a problem.

Kits available for converting Model

M tools. Write for more in- formation 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineerirtg News