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Captain Leback Honored

At SUNY Maritime College

Federal Maritime Administrator Capt. War- ren G. Leback is shown at the lectern during

Admiral's Ball at SUNY Maritime College.

The leaders of the maritime in- dustry recently honored Federal

Maritime Administrator Capt.

Warren G. Leback for his sup- port of the American merchant ma- rine and maritime education and training. Almost 600 guests gath- ered for the dinner-dance held at the State University of New York

Maritime College, Fort Schuyler,

Bronx, N.Y., and to hear the latest from Captain Leback about plans for strengthening the industry and improving maritime education and training.

Rear Adm. F.H. Miller, presi- dent of New York State Maritime

College, took the opportunity of this event to announce that more than half the funds needed to install a ship's bridge simulator on campus had been obtained from events such as this.

Admiral Miller announced a capital campaign to open a Center for Simulated Maritime Operations at the college, the nation's oldest maritime school. In his address,

Captain Leback announced that changes in the requirements for li- censing and upgrading of licenses, plus additional training require- ments for unlicensed personnel would make such facilities manda- tory.

With the Center for Simulated

Maritime Operations on its campus,

New York Maritime College will continue to provide the best in U.S. maritime training, begun with the formation of the school in December 1874 by Act of Congress.

Nalfleet Changes Name,

Moves To New Address

Nalfleet Inc. is the new corporate name for Nalfleet, Bull and Rob- erts.

Richard O'Boyle, president of

Nalfleet Inc., also announced that the company has moved to more spacious quarters at 195 Mountain

Avenue, Springfield, N.J., phone (201) 379-1340, fax (201) 379-9631.

The following personnel changes were announced: Debra Decker was appointed to assist customers and expedite customer orders;

Gary Solovay was appointed to a purchasing and inventory control position within the Americas Zone; and David Anderson was pro- 14 moted to area sales manager.

Nalfleet Inc. Americas Zone han- dles supply and service of Nalfleet marine chemicals in the U.S., Cana- da and South America. Nalfleet Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nal- floc, in turn jointly owned by ICI and Nalco Chemical Co.

For further information and free literature on Nalfleet Inc.,

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Los Angeles Shipyard

Negotiating To Reopen

Former Todd Facility

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor

Commissioners has authorized Port staff to negotiate exclusively with

Los Angeles Shipyard (LAS) to reopen the shipbuilding and repair facility formerly operated by Todd

Shipyards Corp. in the Port of Los

Angeles.

LAS, an independent investment group headquartered in Orange,

Calif., plans to conduct commercial and military shipbuilding repair op- erations at the port.

The group currently has an $82 million contract to build two 40,000- dwt tankers for OSCO, a Norwegian shipping company.

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