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Tidewater To Sell Container

Shipping Interests

Tidewater Inc. andS.E.L. Maduro (Florida), Inc., announced they have reached an agreement in principle for Maduro to acquire Tidewater's 70 percent interest in the assets and liabilities of Marine Transportation

Services Sea-Barge Group, Inc. The purchase price was not given.

Sea-Barge is a joint venture be- tween Tidewater and Maduro. Upon completion of the acquisition,

Maduro will continue to operate the business through a newly-formed subsidiary, Sea-Barge, Inc.

Sea-Barge provides containerized liner service, using tugs and barges, from the U.S. East Coast to Puerto

Rico and other Caribbean basin ports and from the U.S. Gulf Coast to

Panama. Sea-Barge will continue to provide the same service, fulfill- ing its customer's needs for contain- erized marine transportation and project cargo movement.

According to Tidewater chairman, president and chief executive John

P. Laborde, "The disposition of

Tidewater's interest in the container shipping group allows us to sharpen our focus on our core marine and compression businesses. We look forward to continuing to provide marine equipment to Sea-Barge."

Tidewater owns and operates the world's largest fleet of vessels serv- ing the international offshore en- ergy industry and owns and oper- ates one of the largest fleets of natu-

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European Commission

Unveils Safety Program

For Marine Safety

A special program designed to drive substandard ships and incom- petent crews from the territorial waters of the 12-member European

Community was recently proposed by the European Commission (EC) in Brussels.

While it does not incorporate a radical solution recommended by

France to ban all substandard oil tankers from community ports, the plan does call for the EC to enforce current maritime safety rules more strictly and would impose more strin- gent standards on classification so- cieties and tougher ship design stan- dards.

Because of the controversy sur- rounding the rigid and expensive requirements of the U.S. Oil Pollu- tion Act of 1990, it had been ex- pected that the EC would propose a relatively moderate policy of rein- forcing current International Mari- time Organization (IMO) standards.

The EC's proposals are bound to have a major impact on interna- tional shipping as more than half of the world's sea trade passes through the English Channel and the North

Sea. After the groundings and re- sulting major oil spills from the tank- ers Braer, off the Shetland Islands, and the Aegean Sea, near Gibralter, the EC came under heavy political pressure to improve marine safety in European Community waters. 92 Circle 343 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News