Shipping Executives To Review Maritime Policy At Oakland Conference
Shipping industry leaders will gather at the rim of the Pacific Basin late this month to outline their views on the shape of a progressive national maritime policy at the 3rd Annual Port of Oakland International Transportation Conference Oct. 25 and 26.
The dialogue will involve analysis from a broad range of perspectives of market opportunities in world commerce, practical problems in international cargo movement, and needed changes in U.S. shipping policy.
Keynote speakers during the two-day panel and participant dialogue sessions will include California Congressman Robert L.
Leggett (Dem.-4th District), an outspoken member of the House Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries; Charles I. Hiltzheimer, board chairman of Sea- Land Service, Inc., operator of the world's largest intermodal containership fleet; and Charles D. Baker, president of Harbridge House, Boston, Mass., noted consultant on international transportation and trade. A fourth major speaker is still to be announced.
Panelists outlining market opportunities during the first day's afternoon session—with emphasis on trans-Pacific trade, now America's most important overseas crossroads—will be Richard C.
King, director, Office of International Trade, State of California, Los Angeles; Paul O'Leary, vice president, Connell Bros., San Francisco; Hugo Steensma, group vice president, Bank of America, San Francisco; Robert Gomperts, president, Nordisk, Andelforbund Calif., Inc., San Francisco, will act as moderator.
Discussing the problems faced by shippers and carriers in actual movement of commerce during the second day's activities will be Milan V. Fabry, traffic manager, Sears Roebuck & Company, Chicago, 111.; Jack Scally, traffic manager, General Electric Int'l, New York, N.Y.; Lawrence Cena, president, Santa Fe Railway, Chicago; William B. Hubbard, vice president, American President Lines, Oakland, Calif., in a panel moderated by Ray Velez, chairman, Pacific Coast European Conference, San Francisco.
The afternoon session will include a panel discussion entitled "Necessary Changes in National Shipping Policy." Panel participants are the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, Richard J. Daschbach; Ernest J.
Corrado, Chief Counsel of the Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries of the U.S. House of Representatives; Frank S. Merwin, vice president, American Smelting and Refining; Y. Yamanaka, managing director of N.Y.K.
Line in Tokyo, Japan. Moderator of this panel will be Richard K.
Bank, Director, Office of Maritime Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
The 1978 Port of Oakland International Transportation Conference is co-sponsored by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, the Oakland World Trade Association, The Propeller Club of the Golden Gate, the San Francisco Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association, the Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region, the National Defense Transportation Association, and the Pacific Traffic Association.
Assisting the chairman, Robert W. Crandall, as vice chairmen of the conference are William Wagstaffe, general traffic manager, Del Monte Corporation; Raymond Velez, chairman of the Pacific Coast European Conference; Stanley P. Hebert, attorney for the Port of Oakland, Richard K. Bank, Director, Office of Maritime Affairs, United States Department of State, and Marvin B. Garrett, Port of Oakland.
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Content
- New Firm To Buy Five Vessels For Service Great Lakes To Europe page: 4
- C.Y. Tung Group Enlarges Fleet To 118 Vessels page: 6
- Bath Iron Works Names Allan G. Anderson page: 6
- Two New Parcel Tankers Added To Stolt-Nielsen Fleet page: 7
- Gibbs & Cox, Inc. Opens Newport News, Va. Office —R. Delia Rocca Named page: 7
- Abex Corporation Names Paul J. Powers President Of Denison Division page: 7
- El Paso Announces Proposed Offerings page: 8
- ITT Decca Marine Names Richard Muller page: 8
- Foster Wheeler To Supply Inert Gas Systems For LNG Tankers At Quincy page: 10
- C.F. Bean Corporation Names John Lescroart Executive Vice President page: 10
- Diamond Shamrock To Charter Chemical Tanker Building At Avondale page: 12
- Crowley Maritime Corp. Appoints Jay Brickman page: 15
- Rear Adm. Westfall Addresses ASNE Charleston Section page: 16
- Continental Oil Announces Six Executive Promotions page: 16
- Hillman Barge & Construction Elects R.E. Kenny And B.T. Kelley page: 16
- Los Angeles-Long Beach Propeller Club Names Officers For 1978-79 Term page: 18
- U.S. Navy Awards Ingalls $287 Million Contract To Design And Build First Of A New Class Destroyer page: 20
- Crowley Maritime Names Jim Grissom Manager San Juan Operations page: 21
- Mobilization Ship Design To Be Unveiled November 6 At Conference In Arlington page: 22
- 27 New Members Elected To American Bureau Of Shipping page: 24
- George Lowman Elected Farrell Lines Chairman page: 26
- Furuno U.S.A. Formed In South San Francisco page: 26
- Gastech 78 To Focus On World Supply And Demand For LNG And LPG page: 27
- Atlantic Diving Forms SeaTec International, Ltd. page: 30
- Ruddie E. Irizarry Named President Of PRMMI— Carr, Calderon Also Named page: 30
- Evergreen Handt Corp. Names Three Executives page: 31
- Crowley To Provide Maintenance Services Worldwide For Navy page: 32
- Rutland Maritime Names Peter Gallagher page: 32
- Reynolds Announces $580-Million Upgrading For Sea-Land Service page: 34
- Hitachi Zosen Asaka Works (Sakai) Delivers Ro/Ro Carrier Dana Maxima page: 40
- Floyd Mechling Retires From Union Mechling page: 42
- Jacques B. Hadler To Direct Research Activities At Webb page: 43
- AWO Elects James Potter —Industry Issues Examined At Board Meeting In Tulsa page: 44
- Shipping Executives To Review Maritime Policy At Oakland Conference page: 46
- Kubota To Stockpile Anti-Corrosive Pipe In Texas Facility page: 48
- Investment In Tankers: The Case For Optimism page: 50
- Hawaii Site Selected For Testing Nodules Gathered From Ocean Floor page: 53
- Hawaii Site Selected For Testing Nodules Gathered From Ocean Floor page: 53
- New Starlite Is Second 122-Foot Combination Boat From MARCO Yard page: 53
- President Signs Murphy Energy Bill page: 54
- General Electric Credit Names Joseph Heimerl page: 54
- Oceanology International For Offshore Industry Set For March 3-7, 1980 page: 56
- Newfoundland Makes Bid For $.75-Billion Investment In Fishery page: 57
- New York Metropolitan Section Begins New Season With Past Chairman's Night And Third Generation Ro/Ro Paper page: 58
- Shipbuilding Experts Meet To Discuss Ways To Increase Automation And Productivity page: 58
- Texas Gas Transmission Inland Waterways Division Announces Personnel Changes page: 60
- A.L. Burbank & Company, Ltd. Announces Election Of Officers —Celebrates 50th Anniversary page: 61
- Sperry Computerized Positioning System Permits Pipelaying In 2,000-Ft. Waters page: 62
- American Bureau Of Shipping Classes 53 Vessels In August page: 62
- Hatch & Kirk Inc. Acquires Cleveland Diesel Engine Assets page: 64