The Second Annual
international Inland Waterways
Conference & Trade Show
September 20-22, Louisville, Kentucky
The second annual Interna-
tional Inland Waterways Confer-
ence and Trade Show will be held
September 20 through 22, 1984 at
the Kentucky Fair and Exposition
Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
The three-day show will feature
conferences and workshops with
the general theme "Update 84:
Success or Tragedy in the Water-
way Industry." The show will be of
special interest to waterways users;
port and waterways builders; op-
erators; maintainers; shippers;
suppliers; shipbuilders; repair fa-
cility managers; shipyard man-
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agers; and all who provide related
services and products to the inland
waterways industry.
Joseph Farrell, president of
the American Waterways Opera-
tors, Inc.; Leonard Silk of the
New York Times/Business Week
Magazine and an authority on eco-
nomics and finance; Lt. General
(Ret.) Dennis P. McAuliffe; first
chairman of the Panama Canal
Commission; Cees van der Burgt,
chief engineer-director of Holland's
Noordzee Directorate; Glover Wil-
kins, retiring Administrator of
the Tennessee-Tombigbee Water
Development Authority; and sev-
eral top officials of the United
States Army Corps of Engineers
are among the keynote speakers
at the three day event.
A series of workshops headed up
by industry authorities will deal
with matters ranging from gov-
ernmental regulations to efficient
use of time and facilities in the
waterways industry. Officials have
taken special care to schedule gen-
eral sessions and workshops with-
out overlap so as to allow atten-
dees to participate in any and all
sessions.
To be called the Rivermen's Ex-
change, a series of workshops have
been scheduled to provide imme-
diate and important information
to users of inland waterway
systems.
Intelligent Use of a Fleet—
This workshop will address the
profitable use of barge fleets, tak-
ing into consideration safety, effi-
ciency in movement and proper
splitting of fleets. Proper use and
planning is key to profitability as
underlined in this important
workshop.
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