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First Oil Spill Command

Post Exercise Held In

MSRC's Northern Region

A simulated collision off Ambrose

Light, New York, between a tanker and a containership set a recent

Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) oil spill command post ex- ercise in motion, with the Coast

Guard and National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also participating.

The scenario attempted to simu- late as realistically as possible the actual chain of events of a large oil spill, beginning with the initial tele- phone call informing MSRC's North- east Regional Response Center of a spill. Afterwards, managers and supervisors were dispatched to the command post where they were re- quired to make operational and com- munications decisions based on in- formation from external and inter- nal sources. $12.8 Million Contract

For Aegis Modifications

Awarded To Raytheon

Raytheon Company's Equipment

Division, Wayland, Ma. received a $12.8 million contract for modifica- tion of the Aegis AN/SPY-1 trans- mitter group from the Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C., contract number N00024-90-

C-5114. 78 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

Westfalia is proud to be part of the ongo- ing construction program of the new and growing U.S. Navy.

Gulf Coast Ports

To Raise Dock Fees

To come into closer alignment with ports along the U.S. East and

West coasts, it is expected that ports across the Gulf of Mexico will raise their dockage fees.

Jim Badger, marketing director for the Mississippi State Port Au- thority, Gulfport, Mi., said that the

Gulf Seaports Marine Terminal Con- ference has attempted in recent years to standardize Gulf port tar- iffs without much success.

Generally lower than ports on the

East and West Coasts, the confer- ence is expected to discuss rates hikes that would equalize Gulf dock- age fees at its July meeting.

A 599-foot vessel is charged $3.45 a foot at the general cargo wharves at Freeport, Texas, and Houston, while Tampa charges $4.15 a foot and Mobile $2.05 a foot per day.

The East Coast ports of Miami offers an extremely low 55 cents a foot a day and Jacksonville, Fl., charges $5.14 a foot on a length- overall basis. The Port of Long

Beach, Ca., charges $3.60 a foot a day for the same vessel.

Intermodal 92 Conference

To Be Held In The Hague

The commercial realities of com- bined transport will be the theme of

Intermodal 92, a conference spon- sored by Cargo Systems, U.K., Octo- ber 27-29,1992 in The Hague, Neth- erlands.

Leading shipping and transport trade associations, plus intermodal policy-making institutions, have joined the conference steering com- mittee to identify the main areas of industry concern. Some of the topics to be discussed are; intermodal pric- ing, asset management, infrastruc- ture spreading, third party opera- tions, fair competition and waste management.

The conference steering commit- tee includes: European Shipper's

Councils (ESC), CENSA, UIRR,

FIATA, IRU, Intercontainer, Insti- tute of International Container Les- sors (IICL), plus 10 other leading commercial and trade associations.

For further information on the

Intermodal 92 conference and exhi- bition please contact Sarah Derham at; CS Conferences & Exhibitions,

McMillan House, 54 Cheam Com- mon Road, Worcester Park, Surrey

KT4 8RJ, U.K. Telephone: (44) 81- 330-3911; Fax: (44) 81-330-5112.

OnlyWestfalia's On-Demand Purifying

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Following the exercise, the orga- nizations held a debriefing to evalu- ate their performance and to discuss their actions. The participants agreed that the exercise was valu- able in testing established proce- dures.

USCG Captain Rick Larrabee, captain of the Port of New York, said: "I was impressed with the fo- cus and enthusiasm of all the people involved. It was a good start for the

Coast Guard's relationship with

MSRC."

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