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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- 38 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. (continued on page 40) Maritime Reporter/Engineering News