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Safmarine Orders Vessel

From Italacantiere S.p.A.

According to a Johannesburg report, a .1,322-container-capacity cellularized vessel has been or- dered from Italacantiere S.p.A. by South African Marine Corp. (Safmarine). It will be the first containership for Safmarine, which has an option on another such vessel and intentions to re- ceive a total of four.

The $30-million containership, scheduled to begin service in the line's Mediterranean-Southern

Africa trade in mid-1977, has a deadweight capacity of 23,630 tons and a service speed of 21 knots.

AAPA To Begin Annual

Five-Day Convention

Oct. 20 In San Juan

Puerto Rico, the island com- monwealth where maritime trans- portation has become a leading topic of conversation because of a recent series of exciting devel- opments, will provide the setting for the 63rd annual convention of

The American Association of Port

Authorities, according to AAPA president Charles S. Devoy.

Delegates from all leading ports in the Western Hemisphere will convene at the El San Juan Hotel in San Juan, October 20, for a five-day conclave which, president

Devoy added, promises some in- novations of its own.

Richard L. Schultz, a regular delegate for many years, who will attend this year in his new ca- pacity as executive director of

AAPA, has predicted that regis- tration will exceed 500. Mr.

Schultz and his Washington staff are in the midst of finalizing the convention program.

Already, the list of confirmed speakers contains such maritime luminaries as Michael R. McEvoy, chairman of the board of Sea-

Land Service, Inc.; Lt. Gen. Wil- liam C. Gribble, Chief of the U.S.

Corps of Engineers, and Dr. Fred

W. Anderson, president of WES-

TAC, a Vancouver, British Co- lumbia-based consulting firm.

AAPA will be welcoYned offici- ally during opening ceremonies on

Monday morning, October 21, by

San Juan's Mayor Carlos Romero

Barcelo. The Honorable Rafael

Hernandez-Colon, Governor of the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, will be keynote speaker at the luncheon later that day.

A new feature this year, re- flecting a growing emphasis by

AAPA on Latin-American port matters, will be a day-long series of sessions in Spanish—scheduled for Tuesday, concurrent with an independent English program.

Two workshops will highlight the

Spanish sessions: "Containeriza- tion in Labor-intensive Port

Areas," and "The Role of the In- dustrial Engineer in Port Oper- ations." An afternoon plenary session will deal with plans to reorganize the Caribbean and

Latin American section of AAPA.

For all delegates, there will be in- depth discussions on superports, security, industrial development, and the handling of perishables.

Meanwhile, in San Juan a host- port committee headed by Julio

Maymi Pagan, executive director of the Puerto Rico Ports Author- ity, has made elaborate plans to provide delegates and their wives with a taste of entertainment in the Puerto Rican manner. In store is an early-bird reception on Sun- day evening, entitled Bienvenidos

Amigos. A surprise event is in store for Monday night, and on

Tuesday, there will be a reception and dinner in San Cristobal. A special series of events is planned for the wives of delegates, details of which are to be announced soon.

The visiting port officials will have an opportunity to inspect maritime installations and have a shoreside look at the facilities of Puerto Rico's brand-new na- tional-flag merchant marine.

Again this year, awards will be made to individual ports for singular contributions to an im- proved environment, and for out- standing performance in the fields of advertising and graphic pro- motion.

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