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CONGRESSIONAL BREAKFAST — Among guests at the cocktail reception preceding the annual Congressional Breakfast held recently, which is sponsored by three major New York-New Jersey port groups, were the above (left to right) : Adm. John M. Will, USN (ret.), an honorary director of The Maritime Association of the Port of New

York, and president of Arthur Tickle Engineering Works; Congress- man Joseph P. Addabbo (N.Y.-7th District) ; Congressman Leo C.

Zeferetti (N.Y.-15th District) ; Congressman John M. Murphy (N.Y.- 17th District) ; Francis J. Barry, president, Circle Line, and James P.

McAllister, chairman of the board, McAllister Brothers, Inc. and pres- ident of the NY-NJ Port Promotion Association, one of the sponsors of the event. At the breakfast the following morning, shipping and other business and civic officials met with members of Congress from the New York-New Jersey port region, and members of Federal com- mittees and commissions whose work is concerned with national mari- time affairs, to urge their legislative support for local harbor improve- ments and the development of shipping and commerce in the bistate area. The breakfast is sponsored jointly each year by the New York-

New Jersey Port Promotion Association, The Port Authority of New

York and New Jersey, and the New York City Council on Port Devel- opment and Promotion.

American-Arab

Chamber To Open

New Orleans Office

The American-Arab Chamber of Commerce has announced plans to open an office in the Interna- tional Trade Mart of New Orleans,

La.

Dr. Atef Gamal-Eldin, presi- dent of the American-Arab Cham- ber in Houston, Texas, made the announcement at a meeting of the

ITM board of directors. The New

Orleans office will be an extension of the Houston operation to form the Southwest American-Arab

Chamber of Commerce.

There are other such chambers now in New York, N.Y., San

Francisco, Calif., and Chicago, 111.

Basil J. Rusovich Jr., president of ITM and also president of

Transoceanic Shipping Company,

Inc., said increased trade with the oil-rich Mideast is essential to the growth of the Port of New Or- leans and the economic advance- ment of the entire region.

He said vast developments are scheduled in the Mideast, with currently about $200 billion in construction projects in the works. "New Orleans in 1976 handled ap- proximately $350 million in cargo for this area of the world. This is only a trickle, a beginning, com- pared to the total trade the port and area could develop with this part of the world," Mr. Rusovich added.

The American-Arab Chamber conducts a variety of programs designed to stimulate U.S.-Arab commerce, including arranging for visitors from the Middle East, or- ganizing the U.S. trade missions to that part of the world, and general trade promotion.

Dr. Eldin said the Arab states are not interested in competing with U.S. businesses, but want to develop a broad range of trading avenues between the U.S. and the

Middle East.

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