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Federal Policy Group

To Report On New

Maritime Program

Recently established to address the declining state of the U.S. mer- chant marine and to reformulate federal maritime policy, a cabinet- level Policy Coordinating Group has been given a deadline of June '92 to have a report prepared detailing a new reform program.

Some of the high-level members of the Policy Coordinating Group in- clude the Department Secretaries:

James Baker, State; Nicholas

Brady, Treasury; Richard

Cheney, Defense; Andrew Card,

Transportation;Barbara

Franklin, Commerce; Edward

Madigan, Agriculture; and Lynn

Martin, Labor; as well as Richard

Darman, Director of the Office of

Management and Budget; Carla

Hills, U.S. Trade Representative;

Colin Powell, Chairman of the

Joint Chiefs; Ronald Roskins,

Administrator for the Agency for

International Development; and

Christopher Koch, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission.

The President's Chief of Staff,

Samuel Skinner; Brent

Scowcroft, the National Security

Adviser; Michael Boskin, Chair- man of the Council of Economic Ad- visers; and Roger Porter, Assis- tant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy.

A group consisting of Sea-Land

Service Inc., American President

Lines, Matson, TOTE, AIMS, the

AWO and the Transportation Insti- tute sent a petition to Secretary

Card, asking him to urge the Policy

Coordinating Group to give its sup- port to the continued enforcement of the U.S. Jones Act.

Sea-Land and American Presi- dent Lines have both suggested that they would remove all of their ves- sels from U.S.- flag registry by 1995 unless the federal government made significant changes to national mari- time policy.

Cruise Companies Adding

New Ports Of Call

To Itineraries

Many cruise lines recently an- nounced the addition of new ports of call to their itineraries. The new ports being added are in Vietnam,

China and the former Soviet Union.

Ocean Pearl has announced that it will offer cruises to Hanoi and

Danang, Vietnam, as well as to vari- ous ports in China and the Far East.

Cunard ships will call at ports in the former Soviet Union such as

Odessa and Yalta, Ukraine; St. Pe- tersburg, Russia; and Tallinn, Esto- nia. Cunard will also offer variable- length cruises from Fort Lauder- dale, Fla., to places like Papeete,

Tahiti, Cairns, Hong Kong and

Singapore.

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