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API Annual Tanker

Conference To Be Held

At Tarpon Springs Oct. 1-4

Tanker safety and pollution prevention will be the main topics of discussion at the American Pe- troleum Institute's annual tanker conference, October 1-4 at Innis- brook, Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Among the speakers will be

M.P. Holdsworth, Shell Interna- tional Petroleum Co., Ltd., Lon- don, England, and Rear Adm.

W.M. Benkert, USCG (ret.), who will discuss the international agreements on tankers and crew standards reached earlier this year at conferences in London, sponsored by agencies of the

United Nations.

Also to be discussed is the U.S.

Coast Guard program for inspec- tion of ships entering U.S. har- bors. The speaker will be Capt.

John E. DeCarteret of the Coast

Guard.

Other topics include retrofit- ting of inert gas systems on tankers, anticipated requirements for collision avoidance systems, carriage of liquefied natural gas, a report on the tanker activities in the Alaskan port of Valdez, shallow draft maneuvering of large tankers, use of dispersants, major oil spills, and possible so- lutions for vapor emissions prob- lems.

Paceco International

Appoints Alan Holme

Managing Director

Alan L. Holme was recently appointed managing director of

Paceco International Limited,

Croydon, England. The announce- ment was made by Paceco, Inc. president and PIL board chairman

John F. Martin. PIL is the Euro- pean affiliate of Paceco, Inc., a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corpora- tion, Alameda, Calif.

Alan L. Holme

Mr. Holme, PIL's deputy man- aging director since 1971, has a long history of world experience in engineering, production, mar- keting and contract adminis- tration. Mr. Holme received his degree in engineering from Cam- bridge University. After manage- ment positions with several U.K. companies and assignments throughout the world, Mr. Holme came to PIL to manage a team studying European port projects.

His most recent responsibilities have been in administration and marketing.

As managing director of PIL,

Mr. Holme will continue the re- sponsibilities he assumed after the untimely death of Peter J.

Tyrrell earlier this year.

Three Appointments At

Sun International Unit

Sun Oil Trading Company pres- ident Gordon S. Cochrane has an- nounced the appointments of:

Gerald F. Cerchio as vice presi- dent, responsible for all crude and product trading. He had been vice president of products.

Joseph E. Williams as man- ager of operations, responsible for crude oil and product coordi- nation and contract administra- tion. He had been manager, crude oil coordination.

Ronald H. Rogers as manager, crude oil trading, reporting to

Mr. Cerchio. Mr. Rogers had been a crude oil trading specialist.

Sun Oil Trading Co. is a sub- sidiary of Sun International, 200

West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne,

Pa. 19087, which is the operating unit of Sun Company engaged in the trading of crude oil and pe- troleum products, marine trans- portation, terminalling operations and the foreign marketing of pe- troleum products.

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