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MarAd Sets Strict Conditions

For APL Foreign-Flag Activities

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced conditions un- der which American President Lines,

Ltd. (APL), a subsidized U.S.-flag ship operator, would be permitted to operate six new foreign-built ships under a foreign registry. Subsidized shipping companies are not permit- ted to operate foreign ships that compete with U.S.-flag vessels with- out a section 804(a) waiver.

MarAd said the new ships must be registered in one of five nations which permit U.S.-owned ships to be under the effective control of the

U.S. They also must be enrolled in

MarAd's Voluntary Sealift Agree- ment that will ensure their avail- ability to the U.S. military if needed.

APL also must agree not to scrap or re-flag any U.S.-flag ship covered by its operating subsidy contract prior to Oct. 1, 1995. In addition,

APL must agree to transfer the new ships to U.S. registry should a pro- gram like that proposed in the

Administration's Maritime Security and Trade Act be enacted into law.

Congress did not complete action on the bill this year, but President

Clinton has said he would work with the new Congress next year to pass a maritime reform program. "If the administration's maritime reform efforts are successful, these new ships some day will operate under the American flag," Maritime

AdministratorAlbert J. Herberger said. "In the meantime, we have ensured that they will remain un- der American control. "In addition, our action preserves

American seafaring jobs on exist- ing U.S.-flag ships until the out- come of our efforts is known."

APL has said it expects to oper- ate the six new vessels in service under foreign registry in its Pacific

South Express loop. The Pacific

South Express loop itinerary de- ployment is San Pedro- Long Beach-

Oakland-Dutch Harbor-Yokohama-

Kobe-Pusan-Kaohsiung-Hong

Kong-San Pedro. APL will rede- ploy other ships to its Seattle-Ja- pan service. Three of the ships are being built in Germany and three in Korea. They are expected to be delivered between May and No- vember 1995. MarAd's action came in the form of a conditional waiver of section 804(a) of the Merchant

Marine Act of 1936, as amended.

Section 804 prohibits a subsidized operator from operating a foreign- flag vessel which competes with any essential American-flag ser- vice unless a waiver is granted under special circumstances and for good cause.

Other MarAd News

Scrapping Sale OK'd

The Maritime Subsidy Board has authorized the termination of the

Liberty Belle Limited Partnership's (LBLP) Title V contracts relating to the Liberty Belle.

The vessel, built in 1976 for Yeon

Shipping Corp., with the aid of con- struction-differential subsidy (CDS), has inefficient steam turbine en- gines that render the vessel uncompetitive in international mar- kets. It is being sold solely for the purpose of scrapping and may not be

SALES AND S

ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS)

Radio-Holland Caribbean N V Curacao N A

Phone: (09) 61 25 77 Fax: (09) 61 27 23

ARGENTINA

Oton R. Klein S.A. 1636 - Olivos -

Prov. Bs. As. Phone: (01) 799-5071

Fax: (01) 792-0649

AUSTRALIA

Rubin Marine

St. Artarmon. NSW 2064

Ptione: (02) 439-2333 Fax: (02) 439-2278

BAHRAIN

Aeradio Technical Services

Mina Salman Industrial Area

Phone: 727790 (6 lines) Fax: 727811

BANGLADESH

Graphics Communications Limited Dhaka

Phone: (02) 231045/881563

Fax (02) 883627

BELGIUM

Antwerp Marine Radio Company N.V. 2030 Antwerp Phone: (03) 541.04.63

Fax: (03) 542.61.73/542.57.98

BRAZIL

O.L. Naval Ltda Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Phone: (021) 222.5667/292-4148. line 271

Fax: (021) 242.7934

CANADA

Radio Holland (Canada) Ltd.

B.C. V7J 2C5 Phone: (604) 984 2889

FAx: (604) 983 3344

CHILE

Equipos Industriales S.AC.I. Santiago

Phone: (02) 6990506 Fax: (02) 6334539

CROATIA

Bel Marine Zastupstvo i Servis

HRV-51221 Kostrena Phone: (051) 212192

Fax:(051)211179

CYPRUS used in any other capacity. LBLP is required to comply with all appli- cable provisions of the CDS con- tracts and the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended.

MarAd Receives Section 9

Applications • Sea-Land Service, Inc. & Affili- ates, Elizabeth, N.J., have asked permission to transfer to Marshall

RVICE AGENTS

KOREA

Ships Electronics Korea

Bando Hotel Building, Pusan

Phone: (51) 4668072/3 Fax: (51) 4668074

KUWAIT

Commercial Co-Ordination Centre w.l.t. • 13113 Safat

Phone: 2462347/8 Fax: 2458070

MALAYSIA

RH Communications (M) Sdn Bhd Petaling Jaya 47500

Phone: (03) 734-2119/20 • Fax: (03) 734-2127

MALTA

Medcomms Ltd. • Gzira

Phone: 335521 - Fax: 310820

MEXICO

Nautica, S.A. de C.V. 01010 Mexico D.F.

Phone: (5) 651 -9740 Fax: (5) 651 -2825

MOROCCO

Soremar Casablanca 21900

Phone: 2-307688 Fax: 2-305383

NEW ZEALAND

Electronic Navigation Ltd. - Auckland

Phone: (09) 3764051 Fax: (09) 3780184

NIGERIA

Netarcomms Nigeria Limited Lagos State

Phone: (01) 871662 • Fax: (01) 612841

NORWAY

AEG Norge A/S 2000 Lillestrflm

Phone: (22) 897800 Fax: (22) 897942

PAKISTAN

International Aeradio Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd.

Karachi 75600

Phone: (021) 537800 - Fax: (021) 5870331

POUND

EPA LTD. 71-617 Szczecin

Phone: 91 232 775 Fax: 91 231 416

PORTUGAL

Nautel - Electronica Maritima, Lda. 1300 Lisbon

Portland's Ship Repair Business

Strengthened With Cascade General Sale

Cascade General, Inc., the only marine repair contractor at the

Port of Portland's international shipyard, has been bought and recapitalized by Tore Steen, majority owner of Ponderosa Ac- quisition Corporation of Portland.

Mr. Steen said the acquisition is designed to improve Cascade

General's competitiveness with other West Coast ports for marine repair work for cruise lines, pe- troleum transporters and opera- tors of other large vessels.

The Port of Portland, which operates the only public shipyard in the U.S., provides a 982-ft. (299 m) long drydock, the largest float- ing drydock in the Pacific Rim, for ships up to 1,200 ft. (366 m) long.

The transaction was financed by Capital Consultants, Inc. of

Portland. Terms were not dis- closed.

Cascade general was acquired from its four shareholders,

Steven H. Anderson, Ernest

Brawley, Loy Kahler and

Surenda Menon, all of whom will remain with the company in managment positions.

The purchase of Cascade Gen- eral follows the recent closure of the shipyard's other marine con- tractors, West State, Inc. in Octo- ber of 1994 and Northwest Ma- rine 1992.

Mr. Steen said that the volume of available marine repair busi- ness made it very difficult for multiple companies to compete profitably and survive. The com- pany recently renewed its use agreement with the Port of Port- land, and will formally request the

Port to grant it a single-operator agreement, allowing it to exclu- sively provide ship repair services at the Portland ship yard through a long-term lease on the facilities at Swan Island.

Founded in 1904 as Albina En- gine and Machine Works, the com- pany operated as Dillingham Ship

Repair from 1969 to 1987, when a group of managers and associates bought the company assets and renamed it Cascade General Inc.

Today, Cascade General spe- cializes in all phases of ship repair services for oil tankers, general cargo carriers, cruise ships, luxury liners and military vessels. Cas- cade General has recently com- pleted work on two Holland Ameri- can Line cruise ships, the

Rotterdam and the Westerdam, and is performing work on the

ARCO Sag River, an oil tanker.

For more information on

Cascade General

Circle 106 on Reader Service Card

AP. Hadjipieros Limassol

Phone: (05) 345972 Fax: (05) 345973

ECUADOR

Industrial Anabra C. Ltda. Guayaquil

Phone: (04) 309766 Fax: (04) 313694

EGYPT

Suez Electronics Free Zone S.A.E.

Alexandria - Phone: (03) 806899/807426

Fax: (03) 804196

Suez Electronics Engineering & Trading Ltd.

Cairo - Phone: (02) 611124 Fax: (02) 2635219

FINLAND

AES Systems Oy. 02201 Espoo

Phone: (0) 422155 • Fax: (0) 422908

FRANCE

Geolink 13685 Aubagne Cedex

Phone: 42.84.24.25 Fax: 42.84.24.18

SO Marine 78500 Sa/trouville

Phone: (1) 39.14.68.33 • Fax: (1) 39.13.30.22

GERMANY

Elna GmbH - 25462 Rellingen/Hamburg

Phone: (04101) 301-00 Fax: (04101) 301214

GREECE

Marac Electronics S.A. 18863 Perama - Piraeus

Phone: (01) 4314361 Fax: (01) 4314234

GUADELOUPE

L.G.E.M. 97110 Pointe A Pitre

Phone: 90.89.19 Fax: 90.85.33

HOLLAND

Radio Holland Marine B.V. 3087 AB Rotterdam

Phone: (010) 4283344 • Fax: (010) 4281498

Sailtron B.V. (yachts only) - 3521 BL Utrecht

Phone: (030) 944741 Fax: (030) 937642

HONG KONG

Radio Holland Group Hong Kong

Phone: 423-9007 Fax: 480-5898

ICELAND

Radiomidun Ltd. -101 Reykjavik

Phone: (91) 622640 Fax: (91) 626475

INDIA

Elcome Marine Services Pvt. Ltd.

New Bombay 400 706 Phone: (022) 763 23 48

Fax: (022) 763 23 51

IRAN

Kaman Hormozgan Marine Engineering

Tehran Phone: (21) 2228020 Fax: (21) 2224502

ISRAEL

Alhoutyam Ltd. Haifa 31019

Phone: 4-620804 - Fax: 4-627404

ITALY

Generalmare S.r.l. (pleasure/fishing) 16043 Chiavari (GE) Phone: 185 32 27 31

Fax: 185 32 27 31

Societa Italians Radio Marithma S.I.R.M. SpA (deep sea) 00143 Roma Eur

Phone: (06) 596141 • Fax: (06) 5920771

Compagnia Generale Telemar 00196 Roma

Phone: (06) 3221800 Fax: (06) 3240148

IVORY COAST

Optim Afrique Abidjan 18

Phone: 251843/256727 Fax: 257937

JAPAN

Kaigai Gijyutsu K.K. • Yokohama 231

Phone: (045) 664 7318 Fax: (045) 664 7320

KENYA

East African Maritime Eng. Ltd. • Mombasa

Phone: (11) 472979 • Fax: (11) 472975

Phone: (01) 3970085/6/7 . Fax: (01) 3970084

QATAR

Eastern Technical Services Co. • Doha

Phone: 441412/441413 Fax: 329292

SAUDI ARABIA

Key Communication Development Ltd. (KCD)

Dammam 31411

Phone: (03) 8336940 Fax: (03) 8330728

SENEGAL

Optim Senegal - Dakar

Phone: 234930 • Fax: 229676

SINGAPORE

Radio Holland BV Singapore 2263

Phone: 862-2218 Fax: 862-2430

SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Maritime Electronics (Pty.) Ltd.

Cape Town 7441

Phone: (021) 551-3204 • Fax: (021) 551-3206

Radio Holland Group, Paarden Eiland 7405

Phone: (021) 511-0864 Fax: (021) 511-7577

SPAIN

Nautical 28700 San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid) Phone: (91) 6549411 • Fax: (91) 6549600

SWEDEN

Transtema AB • 436 33 Askim/Goteborg

Phone: (031) 680450 Fax: (031) 683660

Racal Svenska AB, 42658 Vastra Frblunda

Phone: (031) 292100 Fax: (031) 292109

TAIWAN R.O.C.

Shin Hsiung Fong Electric & Co., Ltd.

Kaohsiung

Phone: (07) 5514905 Fax: (07) 5212983

TANZANIA

The Old East African Trading Co. (T) Ltd.

Dar es Salaam

Phone: (051) 32248 Fax: (051) 32250

THAILAND

Scan Pacific Co., Ltd. - Bangkok 10110

Phone: (2) 390-2210 - Fax: (2) 381-2763

TUNISIA

Alcatel Tunisie 1080 Tunis Cedex

Phone: (1) 717177 Fax: (1) 719888

TURKEY

Miihendis Hilkal Bolulu Co. (public) - Istanbul

Phone: (212) 243-4576 Fax: (212) 244-3739

Elektro-Deniz Ltd. Sti. (private) • Istanbul

Phone: (212)243-4937 Fax: (212) 243-5218

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Elcome International' Dubai

Phone: (04) 371335 Fax: (04) 373426

UNITED KINGDOM

S.P. Radio (UK)

Croydon (pleasure/fishing)

Phone: (081) 686-5363 Fax: (081) 688-9081

Ships Electronic Seivices Ltd. (commercial shipping and military)

Greenhithe, Kent DA9 9NL

Phone: (0322) 385053 • Fax: (0322) 387007

URUGUAY

Electromaritima Uruguaya Ltda.

Montevideo

Phone: (02) 947139 Fax: (02) 947138

USA

Radio-Holland USA, B.V. • Houston • Texas

Phone: (713) 943-3325 Fax: (713) 943-3802

VENEZUELA

Radio Holland De Venezuela S.A. Maracaibo

Phone: (61) 913587/913487 • Fax: (61) 913587 26D Maritime Reporter/Engineering News