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Ryan-Walsh Names

Robert Matthews VP

Robert S. Matthews, manager of Ryan-Walsh Stevedoring Com- pany's Gulfport, Miss., operations has been appointed vice president of that firm.

The appointment is the second major promotion Mr. Matthews has received within six months, having only recently received his managerial title. Mr. Matthews is also vice president of Southern

Steamship Agency, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ryan-Walsh. "We regard his promotion as proper recognition of his experi- ence, professional growth, and contributions to our firm," said

Ryan-Walsh president G.L. Leath- erbury in announcing the appoint- ment.

Mr. Matthews has been in Gulf- port since 1971, though his expe- rience in maritime commerce goes much farther back. He joined

Ryan Stevedoring Company at

Pascagoula, Miss., in 1969, trans- ferring to Gulfport in 1971. When

Ryan and Walsh Stevedoring

Companies merged in 1974, Mr.

Matthews was appointed assist- ant to the Gulfport manager for

Ryan-Walsh. Prior to joining

Ryan, Mr. Matthews worked for

Waterman Steamship Corpora- tion and later for Lykes Bros.

Steamship Company.

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ABS NEW HEADQUARTERS —

The American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) purchased the 21- story office building of the Amer- ican Express Company at 65

Broadway in lower Manhattan (New York City), for its inter- national headquarters. New York- based since it was chartered in 1862, the ship classification soci- ety will move there upon comple- tion of renovations. The organi- zation currently employs more than 500 people at its New York office, with an additional 700 em- ployed at its exclusive and non- exclusive offices throughout the world. The Society establishes internationally accepted Rules for the design, construction and peri- odic survey of merchant ships and other marine structures. Subsidi- aries of the Bureau, ABS World- wide Technical Services, Inc., and

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Tidewater Marine Names

Burch Williams To

New Corporate Post

Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. chairman and president John P.

Laborde has announced the ap- pointment of Burch Williams to the newly created position of di- rector of corporate development of the New Orleans, La.-based oil and gas service company. Mr.

Williams, formerly senior vice president of the investment bank- ing firm of Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co., Inc. of New York, and a member of the board of directors of Tidewater since 1956, assumed his new position on retirement from Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co.,

Inc. on July 1.

In making this announcement,

Mr. Laborde noted that Mr. Wil- liams will have responsibility for developing and studying opportu- nities for the growth of the com- pany through acquisitions and other means and investor rela- tions. 18 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News