Bruce McAllister Named Deputy To Assistant Secretary Of Commerce For Maritime Affairs

The appointment of Bruce A.

McAllister as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maritime Affairs has been announced by Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs and head of the Maritime Administration.

Mr. McAllister, formerly president and chief executive officer of McAllister Brothers, Inc., marine towing and transportation company headquartered in New York, fills the vacancy created when Mr. Nemirow moved up to succeed Robert J. Blackwell about a year ago. He also will serve on the three-member Maritime Subsidy Board, which Mr. Nemirow chairs.

Elected president of McAllister Brothers in June 1976, Mr. Mc- Allister previously had served the company as vice president, general counsel, and as a member of the board of directors. From 1964 until 1974 he was an associate and partner in the New York law firm of Healy and Baillie, where he handled major litigation and negotiation with a special focus on maritime commercial law.

While with McAllister Brothers, he also served on the board of directors of the American Mutual Steamship Protection and Indemnity Association, as vice chairman of the New York area Marine Transportation Employers' Association, and as a director of the Maritime Association of the Port of New York.

McAllister Brothers, a 116- year-old company, has operations in New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Baltimore, the Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Netherlands Antilles, and Saudi Arabia. The company operates more than 60 tugs and 40 barges in harbor docking and undocking operations, container feeder transportation, bulk liquid and dry cargo movements, and supply and crew vessels for offshore drilling.

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