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PSMA Elects Board Of

Directors For 1986 —Tavrow Named Chairman

The Pacific Merchant Shipping

Association (PMSA) held its 1986

Annual Meeting Luncheon recently at the San Francisco World Trade

Club. It provided PMSA members with an opportunity to review the group's activities in the past year and hear the views of Congressman

Edward Zschau (R-CA) on the effects of the Gramm-Rudman-

Hollings Deficit Reduction Act and the current U.S. trade imbalance.

Founded in 1919 as the Pacific

American Steamship Association and rechartered as the Pacific Mer- chant Shipping Association in 1974, the group's primary function is to monitor the local, state, and federal issues that impact U.S.- and for- eign-flag merchant shipping lines operating in the Pacific Basin area.

At present, PMSA has a roster of 30 members, divided into four categor- ies: U.S.-flag carriers (6), foreign- flag carriers (17), associates (3), and tanker membership (4).

The PMSA's 1986 board of direc- tors include: Capt. Jerry A. Asp- land, ARCO Marine; G.M. Cople,

Sea-Land Service; Thomas B.

Crowley, Crowley Maritime;

Fritz L. Hiltzheimer, United

States Lines; Thomas M. Kelly,

Lykes Bros. Steamship; Richard

L. Tavrow, American President

Lines; Michael S. Wasacz, Mat- son Navigation; Jack B. Wil-

MEyERWERFT

Established 1795

D-2990 Papenburg • P.O. Box 11 20 • Telephone 04961/810 • Telex 27118

Passenger Ship "KERINCI"

Length o.a.

Breadth

Draught

Deadweight

Tonnage

Speed

Main engine 144.00 m 23.40 m 5.90 m 3,4001 13,954 GRT 20 kn 2 x 6,250 kW

Passengers total 1,596

Passengers in cabins 1,096

LPG/Chemical/

Product Carrier "DONAU"

Length o.a.

Breadth

Height

Draught

Speed 183.00 m 30.00 m 17.10 m 11.87m 16 kn

Engine 5,440 + 4,080 kW

Deadweight 32,3391

Tank capacity 30,207 cbm

We built 39 LPG-Tankers

I f I ^ i -t m f 1 ,^M

We build:

Livestock

Carrier for 125.000 Sheep

Length 195,00 m

Breadth 37,10 m

Height 17,80 m

Draught 10,50 m 14 sheep decks, freshwater evaporator 150 to/day, 20-fold air change in cargo hold, automatic fodder plant, automatic drinking water supply, dung removing plant.

MS ' AL SHUWAIKH" was converted from an oil tanker.

Cruise Vessels - Passenger Ships - Car- and Passenger Ferries - NH3/VCM/PO-LPG-Carriers

Chemical Tankers - Ro/Ro-Vessels - Reefers - Heavy Lift-Ships - Livestock-Carriers - all kind of high sophisticated vessels up to a length of 220 m and a breadth of 32 m.

High-Pressure Air Compressors - Tank and Alu Constructions - Repairs and Conversions of all types of ships (Drydock: 240 m x 35 m — dividable).

Circle 200 on Reader Service Card 18 liams, Showa Maritime USA; and

Jorgen Withseidelin, Italian

Line, Neptune Orient Lines, and

Polynesia Line. Mr. Tavrow, who served as the 1985 chairman, was reelected to that office for 1986.

BP Pipelines Names

Croxson President

Jeremy P.G. Croxson has been named president of BP Pipelines

Inc., and will be located at the com- pany's offices in Rye, N.Y. He pre- viously served as manager, marine and special systems, Pipeline and

Terminals Division of BP in Lon- don.

He suceeds John L. William- son, who has been named project manager at BP's Group Engineering and Technical Centre in London.

BP Pipelines Inc., headquartered in Rye, is owned by BP North

America Inc., and has an undivided one-sixth interest in the Trans Alas- ka Pipeline System.

Krupp Mak Diesel

Relocates Office

Krupp Mak Diesel, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Krupp MaK Maschi- nenbau GmbH—one of the world's largest manufacturers of medium- speed marine diesel engines, is relo- cating its office.

The new address will be: Krupp

Mak Diesel, Inc., 323 Vesta Court,

Ridgewood, N.J. 07450, phone (201) 445-6676.

For further information on Krupp

Mak's range of fuel efficient diesel engines with outputs from 700 to 1,400 horsepower,

Circle 48 on Reader Service Card

Moran Towing Appoints

Kenneth S. Johnson

Chief Harbor Dispatcher

Russell G. McVay, vice presi- dent of Moran Towing and Trans- portation Co., Inc., has appointed

Kenneth S. Johnson as chief har- bor dispatcher for the Port of New

York and New Jersey.

Mr. Johnson is a veteran of 40 years' experience, ashore and afloat, in the tugboat industry in New York

Harbor. He started his career in 1946 as a deckhand on the tugs of the Olson Towing Company. When

Olson became part of the Moran organization in 1953, he continued on as an ablebodied seaman, crew- ing on the harbor tugs.

In 1964 Mr. Johnson came ashore as a harbor dispatcher at the company's headquarters in Manhat- tan. Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn,

Mr. Johnson comes from a harbor craft family. His father, John S.

Johnson, was a captain in the Mo- ran fleet and his son Eric carries on the tradition today as a mate on the

Judy Moran.

Kenneth S. Johnson served overseas in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953.

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