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Johansen Appointed

GM Of McAllister

Towing Of Baltimore

Edward T. Johansen

Brian A. McAllister, president of McAllister Towing and Transpor- tation Company, Inc., New York,

N.Y., has announced the appoint- ment of Edward T. Johansen as general manager of McAllister Tow- ing of Baltimore, Inc., formerly The

Baker-Whiteley Towing Co. Mr.

Johansen, whose appointment fol- lows the recent retirement of Rich- ard C. Gross, was operations man- ager.

Mr. Johansen has spent most of his professional career with Baker-

Whiteley/McAllister, and brings to his new position an extensive back- ground in the maritime industry, including all phases of tug and barge operations.

McAllister Towing and Transpor- tation, Inc. is one of the oldest and largest tugboat companies on the

U.S. East Coast, servicing the ports of Baltimore, New York, Philadel- phia, Hampton Roads, Wilmington,

N.C., Charleston, and Jacksonville, and port in Puerto Rico.

Marine Electronic Dealers

Honor Robertson Shipmate

With NMEA Autopilot Award

Robertson Shipmare has been honored for the sixth consecutive year with the National Marine Elec- tronics Association (NMEA) 1990

Autopilot Award for "Product Ex- cellence."

Robertson-Shipmate was cited for its extensive line of autopilots for power and sail boats from small recreational boats to the largest oceangoing vessels. The award is de- termined through voting by the 500

NMEA members around the U.S. who sell, install and service autopi- lots.

The NMEA annually honors ma- rine electronic manufacturers and distributors in 27 categories of ma- rine electronics.

New Decrees Will Free

Brazilian Ship Operators

From Previous Regulations

Brazilian infrastructure minister

Ozires Silva recently signed de- crees freeing Brazilian ship operat- ing companies from regulations that previously limited their activities in international and cabotage, or

February, 1991 coastal, transport, in port services and in offshore oil platform support services. The deregulating decrees should lower the current high trans- port costs for Brazil's exports and imports.

Rules that formerly limited ship operators to certain types of cargoes and services and to specific routes with prescribed vessels were ended with the signing of the decrees.

Paulo Cotta, director superin- tendent of Alianca Navegacao, the dominant private Brazilian operator serving the conference routes be- tween Brazil and Europe, said the new rules will favor private ship operators willing to make invest- ments.

Some private Brazilian ship oper- ators are already planning to diver- sify activities and increase their share of conference trade between

Brazil, the U.S. and Europe.

Constitutional backing of the state oil monopoly is sidestepped in the new rules by redefining it, limit- ing it to petroleum of domestic ori- gin. The new rules also recognize ship operators working as unsche- duled outsiders in trades served by ship conferences, in effect opening the trades to newcomers.

Fifty percent of all conference cargoes reserved for Brazilian-flag carriers were assured to state-owned general cargo carrier Companhia de

Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro under the previous legislation.

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