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on government agencies, members of Congress and representatives of industry and labor organizations concerned with maritime industry labor and management affairs. Brief descriptions of major maritime man- agement and trade organizations, seafaring labor organizations and their affiliations are also presented.

The Employment and Training bro- chure provides information on ship- board employment. Other catego- ries of employment in the maritime industry include shipbuilding and ship repair, longshoring (cargo han- dling), port terminal administration, dredging, towing and offshore oil and mineral operations. Copies of both brochures may be obtained from

MarAd's Office of Congressional and

Public Affairs, tel: (202) 366-5807, or the Office of Labor, Training and

Safety, tel: (202) 366-5755), 400 -

Seventh St., SW, Washington, D.C. 20590.

ABS To Hold Free Type

Approval Seminar

The American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) will host a free one-day seminar on the ABS Type Approval program in Houston, Texas, on July 18,1995. This seminar will discuss the roles and advantages of third party product approvals, specifically the ABS Type Approval Program.

Speakers at the seminar will in- clude representatives of ABS,

NAVSEA, the USCG, shipyards, ves- sel owner/operators and current type-approved manufacturers. With a target audience of both the manu- facturers and purchasers of marine equipment, this seminar will pro- vide the opportunity to learn about the roles and advantages of product approvals in the marine industry.

For more information on this seminar, or to RSVP, please contact

Gerry Nielsen of ABS America at tel: (713) 874-6483; fax: (713) 874- 6398. 36 crewboats, seven supply vessels, and five mini-supply vessels. In addition to purchasing the marine equipment, SEACOR will also ac- quire industrial real estate, a ship- yard, and nine vessel support bases located in Alabama, Louisiana and

Texas. John E. Graham & Sons employs approximately 675 people.

The selling partners,Edgar, Glenn and Clark Graham, will continue as advisors to the Graham opera- tions.

Charles Fabrikant, chairman of SEACOR, said: "We look forward to carrying on the Graham family's tradition for excellent service. We intend to run this as a separate division and continue to operate the fleet using the Graham name and personnel. This acquisition con- solidates SEACOR's position as a full-service provider of marine transportation to the offshore en- ergy sector." He continued, "An additional benefit to this transac- tion is the ability of our environmen- tal oil spill response subsidiary, Na- tional Response Corporation (NRC), to use the Graham bases and to access a larger, more diversified pool of marine equipment and personnel on a priority basis. The acquisition will double NRC's response capabili- ties in the U.S. Gulf, which has the highest concentration of shipping and refining activity in the U.S."

For more information on SEACOR

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SEACOR Acquires

Graham & Sons For $74 M

SEACOR Holdings has signed a letter of intent to acquire substan- tially all the assets of John E. Gra- ham & Sons and affiliated compa- nies for $74.3 million in cash, sub- ject to adjustment. The transaction is conditional upon, among many other things, satisfactory comple- tion of due diligence, execution of definitive documentation and re- ceipt of all necessary governmental approvals. It is anticipated that the transaction will be consummated in the third quarter of 1995. SEACOR currently intends to finance the ac- quisition through a combination of borrowings and existing cash bal- ances.

John E. Graham & Sons, Inc., based in Bayou La Batre, Ala., owns a fleet of 128 offshore vessels dedi- cated to serving the oil and gas industriesintheU.S. GulfofMexico.

The fleet includes 80 utility boats, €

CROWLEY MARINE SERVICES, INC.

Operating Headquarters: 2401 Fourth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 443-8100 1-800-248-8632

Fax: (206) 443-8072

THE NEW CMS

LISTENING. LEARNING.

CHANGING.

At CMS, we're launching a new era of listening, learning, and changing, to make customer satisfaction top priority. Call on us for petroleum product transportation and sales, tanker escort and ship assist, marine salvage and emergency response service provided by CMS and by the joint venture Marine Response

Alliance, contract barge transporta- tion, ocean towing or all-terrain trans- portation. We're putting our cus- tomers first.

When our customers started talking about bringing their new, larger container ships into California harbors,

Crowley was listening.

We repowered our low-profile, twin-screw tugs — considered by harbor pilots as some of the best for working in close quarters — significantly increasing both maximum continuous brake horse- power and tested bollard pull. It was |_ a cost-effective and quick response to changing harbor requirements.

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