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USCG Approves First Oil

Spill Response Plans

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has begun approving oil spill re- sponse plans for private companies, as mandated by OPA 90. The first approval was for Naess Shipping

Company BV of Holland, while the first approval for a U.S. company was for Coastal Towing, Inc., a

Houston tank barge company.

Any foreign or domestic vessel operator — from supertankers to barges — planning to carry oil in

U.S. waters has been required via

OPA 90 to submit its plans to the

USCG in 1993 for review and ap- proval. The plans must include de- tailed response measures to be taken in the event that some or all of a vessel's petroleum cargo is released into U.S. waters.

Adm. Arthur E. Henn, chief of

Headquarters' Office of Marine

Safety, Security and Environmen- tal Protection was joined by Knut

S. Bjerke, president of Naess Ship- ping, as well as company and USCG officials in a Headquarters ceremony to mark the first approval. "This is only the first," USCG

Capt.Michael J. Donohoe, branch chief for Headquarters' Marine En- vironmental Protection Division, said of the Naess approval. "Pres- ently, we are processing over 1,700 plans for more than 7,000 vessels, and we expect additional approvals in the near future." True to that statement, announcements of the

Coastal Towing approval followed about a week later. The USCG expects a complete review of the vessel response plans currently be- ing processed by August 1994, and it continues to receive five to eight additional plans per week.

Coastal Towing has created a re- sponse team at its Houston head- quarters to activate the company's plan in the event of a spill. Its response will include environmen- tal protection, clean-up, and other specialized emergency services. The company has a network of response contractors along the Gulf Coast and throughout the central U.S., and conducts regular spill drills to maintain preparedness. Each ves- sel carries a copy of the response plan.

Daewoo Buys Shipbuilding

Profiles From Inexa

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy

Machinery Ltd. and Inexa Profil AB have signed a contract for the deliv- ery of 6,000 tons of bulb flats from

Inexa's steel mill in Lulea, Sweden, to Daewoo's shipyard in Okpo. It will be the first delivery of Inexa bulb flats to Korea.

Inexa Chairman Karl-David

Sundberg signed the agreement with Hee-Kuy Kim, Daewoo Ship- building & Heavy Machinery Ltd.'s executive managing director.

I.S. Park, deputy general man- ager of steel procurement at Daewoo, said he looks forward to future busi- ness with Inexa Profil.

NYK Line and Stolt Parcel

Tankers Inc. Announce

Joint Venture

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) Line and Stolt Parcel Tank- ers Inc. have formed three joint ven- ture companies—Stolt NYK Asia Pa- cific Services, Inc., Stolt NYK (Aus- tralia) Pty. Ltd., and NYK Stolt

Shipholding Inc.—which will own and operate parcel tankers in the

Asia Pacific region.

NYK Stolt Shipholding, Inc. has acquired ships previously owned bj

Oyeno Unyu Shokai, its affiliates and related companies: MAT Stoli

Sunrise, M/T Stolt Azalea, M/T Stoli

Lily, M/T Stolt Camelia, M/T Stoh

Magnolia and several time chartei ships. This modern and technically advanced fleet will operate prima rily between Japan/Korea/Chin; and Australia/New Zealand.

Stolt-Nielsen SA provides world wide distribution services for bull liquids through a fleet o transoceanic and coastal parce tankers, intermodal tank contain ers, storage terminals, barges, rai cars and tank trucks.

NYK Line is one of Japan's lead ing shipping lines, with one of th world's largest fleets of containe and conventional vessels, tramp an specialized carriers and tankers. k mm mm inmm for jhi j.d. mm task m

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