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Trent Lott And James Barker Honored As Admirals Of The Ocean Sea

HOLSET 800-852-6648 by Bridget A. Murphy, assistant editor

On Friday, November 3,

United Seamen's Service pres ed its annual Admiral of the Ore an

Sea (AOTOS) Awards Diiyfer at the Sheraton New York Hg(fel and

Towers in New York Ciw. The recipients of this year'y awards were Senator Trent iLott (It-

Miss.), Senate Majority Whip and chairman of the Surface Trans- portation and Merchant Marine

Subcommittee, and /Tames Bar- ker, an industry leaoer involved in liner, bulk and Great Lakes ship- ping, and the tow/rig and trans- portation industry./

At a press conference previous to the ceremony/ Senator Lott spoke with MR/FIN. "I am deter- mined it will be/in a Republican

Congress that wJ finally get some things done fct the maritime industry." He sa d that his interest a reflection of the the people of in the industry involvement <

Mississippi in tie maritime sector, and added that as a pipefittei building in Pas

Senator Loti sure with the 0 that 10 years is ing-in period, terms of the his father worked at Ingalls Ship- agoula, Miss, expressed displea- "CD accord, saying too long of a phas- £ tid that under the greement, France would get speci il treatment. His solution? "Either make them stop subsidizing, oi subsidize our yards." The sens tor also discussed

Title XI financii g, saying that in his opinion, the 1 tan financing pro- gram would cont nue to be funded in Congress.

The Republic: n legislator also offered an overal prescription for a healthy, comme cial U.S. ship- building industr "The industry as a whole has gc t to get together.

It's not 1955, it's 1995. America needs to have seine sort of loan program available. The U.S. should also get a lot more aggres- sive in the way welhandle OECD."

Later in the evening, Helen

Delich Bentley l former U.S.

Representative fipm Maryland and 1972 AOTOS 1 awardee, pre- sented the awards 4- silver statues of the first admiral of the sea,

Christopher Columbus — to both recipients. Mr.uJarker, prin- cipal owner of Interlace Steamship

Company, Moran TrJmsportation

Company and Morimw; Marine

Group, was the first toN^ccept an award. "This is an award for the Great

Lakes," said Mr. Barker, "(an area) which has never really been recognized." The Great Lakes shipping magnate then launched into a passionate defense of the

Jones Act. He advised all 700 mar- itime executives in attendance to "stop whining and get out and tell others what it's all about, because it's an act that can stand on its own."

He also made suggestions for bolstering the U.S. maritime safest, lowest cost form of trans- ly, rousing the audience with his inAiotry flfi a wKr.io "Prnr*""il i ilj i ii 111 1111111 " Mil 1111 ITrnrTTTTTTT"l nrrrfliT "Tbr timr +"11'gone. jfilfctf knv. (tiinl.iimeH Mr. Barker, expressed the need for a compre- The time for acllUn it* now. "^Ve must find ways to build ships hensive merchant marine pro- Maritime reform has been too long (that require) fewer crew mem- gram, "something to put people to in coming. Twenty years is too bers." He added that the answer is work out on the ocean." long." He continued, "Private see- to "embrace technology to gain Next in the program, Senator (Continued on following page) leadership, in order to be the Lott accepted his award graceful-

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