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Major Lines And Vessels Honored For Safety And Heroism

Two sets of awards honoring maritime safety achievement, the Jones F. Devlin

Awards and Ship Safety Achievement

Awards, were presented at the Doubletree

Hotel, Houston. The purpose of the awards, jointly presented by the American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS) and the Ma- rine Section of the National Safety Council (NSC), is to publicly recognize and encour- age accident reduction efforts by the various maritime industry segments.

Jones F. Devlin Awards, sponsored by

AIMS, are conferred on self-propelled U.S.- flag vessels which, at the end of any calendar year, have operated for two full years or more with a full crew without a crew mem- ber losing a full turn at watch because of an occupational injury. The different catego- ries recognized are for two years, four years, and annually after five years of accident-free operation.

The 1993 Jones F. Devlin awards were presented to 114 U.S.-flag vessels, repre- senting 25 U.S. shipping companies. Of particular note were the awards to theExxon

Bayou State and the Exxon Brownsville, both honored for 18 consecutive years of accident-free operation.

Other Devlin recipients included:

American Commercial Barge Lines

Coastwise Trading (of Amoco Transport)

B&H Towing

Brent Transportation

Canal Barge

Chevron Shipping

Cleveland Tankers Ship Management

Dixie Carriers

Gulfcoast Transit (of Teco Transport and Trade)

Interocean Management

Keystone Shipping

Matson Navigation

Maritrans Operating Partners L.P.

Mid-South Towing (of Teco Transport and Trade)

Mobil Oil

Moran Towing of Maryland

Moran Towing & Transportation

Ole Man River Transportation

Sabine Transportation

Scott Paper

SeaRiver Maritime

Sun Transport

Texaco Marine Services

Western Kentucky Navigation

Western Towing

Ship Safety Awards are cosponsored by

AIMS and the Maritime Section of NSC, and are conferred to vessels that have performed outstanding feats of heroism, rescue at sea, or seamanship illustrative of the high safety standards of the U.S. fleet.

Recipients of Top Honors for 1993 were:

Company

Scott Paper

Scott Paper

Scott Paper

Scott Paper

Vessel

M/V Scott Pride

M/V Mate

M/VJudson

Silver Streak

The vessels receiving citations of merit were:

Company /Org.

American Commercial

Barge Lines

American President Lines

Chevron Shipping

Coastal Tankships USA

Coastwise Trading

Crowley Marine Services

Dixie Carriers

Gulfcoast Transit

Interlake Steamship Co.

Matson Navigation

Mid-South Towing

Military Sealift Command

Morania Oil Tanker Corp.

Penn Maritime

Sea-Land Service

SeaRiver Maritime

Sun Transport

Texaco Refining and

Marketing

Vessel

M/V Rusty Flowers

SS President Jefferson

Chevron Louisiana

SS Coastal Manatee

Tallahassee Bay

Tug Sea Viking/Barge 101

Dixie Avenger

M/V Gulfcoast

SS Herbert C. Jackson

SS Manulani

M/V Anne PetersM/V Anne B

USNS Powhatan T-ATF 166

Morania No. 2/

Morania No. 450

Tarpon/ Potomac

Sea-Land Quality

S/Rs Bayou State, Nashville,

Memphis, Wilmington

S/T Texas Sun

Star Massachusetts

AIMS is a national trade association rep- resenting 23 U.S-flag carriers which own or operate approximately 11 million dwt of tank- ers, dry bulk carriers, containerships and other oceangoing vessels engaged in the do- mestic and international trades of the U.S.

The NSC Marine Section is one of 28 sepa- rate industrial components comprising the

NSC.

Portland, Vancouver & Army Corps

Place Mooring Buoys In Columbia River

An intergovernmental cost-sharing agree- ment between the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers and the ports of Portland and

Vancouver has resulted in the placement of two mooring anchorage buoys this week in the Columbia River near Hayden Island.

The anchor buoys enhance navigation safety, particularly in inclement weather, by per- mitting large, oceangoing vessels to anchor their sterns to one of the buoys.

Ships using only bow anchors to keep them in place while temporarily moored in the river sometimes move in ways that cre- ate a risk of collision with other ships or inadvertent grounding. The three partners' cooperation makes this the first bi-state, cost-sharing agreement in the nation under the 1986 Water Resource Development Act.

Initial funding for the approximately $360,000 project was approved by the two participating ports in December 1993, and 12 by the Corps the following month. Under the cost-sharing provisions of the Act, the two sponsoring ports were required to share 35 percent of the project's cost, or $126,000.

The Corps' share was 65 percent, or $234,000.

The Corps has estimated that installing the two buoys will save the shipping commu- nity about $380,000 a year in costs associ- ated with standby tugs, anchor barges and lay berthing. The project can also be consid- ered a precedent-setting step toward shar- ing the nonfederal cost of the channel deep- ening feasibility study among the lower river's ports. The five-year, $6.1 million feasibility study officially kicked off last week at an event attended by more than 200

Oregon and Washington business, govern- ment and trade leaders. Senators Mark

Hatfield (R-Ore.) and Slade Gorton (R-

Wash.), together with congressional repre- sentatives Elizabeth Furse (D-Ore.) and

Jolene Unsoeld (D-Wash.) were among those who spoke for the project's benefits to the region.

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