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financing in developing nations.

R. De Paepe, president, Perma- nent International Association of

Navigation Congresses (PIANC) will speak on international financ- ing of ocean, port, and inland waterway transportation.

A three-member panel will ad- dress water transportation com- modities and the world economy.

Dr. M. J. van Rooijen with the

Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Rot- terdam, Netherlands, will speak on coal; Mashhour Ahmed

Mashhour, chairman of the Suez

Canal Authority in Ismailia, Egypt, will speak on oil, and Lawrence

F. Dewitt, director of commodity marketing for Cargill, Inc., will speak on grain.

Dr. Mark Baldwin with the

Imperial College of Science and

Technology, London, England, will talk on the importance of low-cost waterborne transportation to the future of the U.S. Lt. Gen. Joseph

K. Bratton, Chief of Engineers,

SCHEDULE

Friday, August 26

Opening Session

Welcoming address by J. W. Hershey, chair- man, National Waterways Foundation. 8:30 am-10:30 am

Keynote speaker, the Hon. George Bush, vice-president of the United States, speak- ing on the "Role of Water Transportation to the Future Growth and Development of the

U.S. Economy." 10:30 am—3:30 pm

Trade Show

Saturday, August 27

General Session—International Day. 8:00 am-8:45 am "Water Transportation Financing in Devel- oping Nations" by James B. Newman, chief of Ports and Railways Projects Division,

World Bank. 8:45 am-9:30 am "International Financing of Water Transpor- tation: Ocean, Port and Inland" by R. De

Paepe, president, Permanent International

Association of Navigation Congresses (PIANC), Brussels, Belgium. 9:30 am—11:00 am "Water Transportation Commodities and the

World Economy" by

Coal: Dr. M. J. van Rooijen, Royal Dutch/

Shell Group, Rotterdam. Netherlands.

Oil: Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, chairman,

Suez Canal Authority, Ismoila, Egypt.

Grain: Lawrence F. Dewitt, director of com- modity marketing, Cargill Inc. 10:30 am-3:30 pm

Trade Show. 3:30 pm—4:30 pm

Seminar Session

Sunday, August 28

General Session—Water Transportation Sys- tems Day. 7:30 am-8:00 am

Buffet breakfast sponsored by the National

Waterways Foundation. 8:15 am—9:00 am "Water Transportation 2000: How Impor- tant is Low-Cost Waterborne Transportation to the Future of Your Nation?" by Dr. Mark

Baldwin, Imperial College of Science and

Technology, London, England. 9:00 am-9:45 am "National Waterways Study" by Lt. Gen. Jo- seph K. Bratton, chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. 9:45 am—10:45 am "The Development of Water Transportation in the People's Republic of China" by a rep- resentative from the People's Republic of

China. 10:30 am—3:30 pm

Trade Show. will describe the National Water- ways Study.

The morning sessions will be followed by five hours of exhibitor functions in the 130,000-square- foot exhibit area of the Kentucky

Fair and Exposition Center. To conclude each day, after the close of the trade show, topical work- shops are scheduled (See the ac- companying tables listing the schedule and the workshops.)

DINAMO/OVIA Briefing

A briefing for DINAMO/OVIA members will be held August 26, 1983 in conjunction with the "In- ternational Inland Waterways

Conference and Trade Show" in

Louisville, Kentucky. "DINAMO/OVIA—Joining To- gether to Improve our Region's In- land Waterways" begins at 11:00 a.m. on the first day of the three- day conference, following a key- note address by Vice President

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