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PSMA Elects Board Of Directors For 1986 —Tavrow Named Chairman The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) held its 1986 Annual Meeting Luncheon recently at the San Francisco World Trade Club. It provided PMSA members with an opportunity to review the group's activities in the past year and hear the views of Congressman Edward Zschau (R-CA) on the effects of the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings Deficit Reduction Act and the current U.S. trade imbalance. Founded in 1919 as the Pacific American Steamship Association and rechartered as the Pacific Mer- chant Shipping Association in 1974, the group's primary function is to monitor the local, state, and federal issues that impact U.S.- and for- eign-flag merchant shipping lines operating in the Pacific Basin area. At present, PMSA has a roster of 30 members, divided into four categor- ies: U.S.-flag carriers (6), foreign- flag carriers (17), associates (3), and tanker membership (4). The PMSA's 1986 board of direc- tors include: Capt. Jerry A. Asp- land, ARCO Marine; G.M. Cople, Sea-Land Service; Thomas B. Crowley, Crowley Maritime; Fritz L. Hiltzheimer, United States Lines; Thomas M. Kelly, Lykes Bros. Steamship; Richard L. Tavrow, American President Lines; Michael S. Wasacz, Mat- son Navigation; Jack B. Wil- MEyERWERFT Established 1795 D-2990 Papenburg • P.O. Box 11 20 • Telephone 04961/810 • Telex 27118 Passenger Ship "KERINCI" Length o.a. Breadth Draught Deadweight Tonnage Speed Main engine 144.00 m 23.40 m 5.90 m 3,4001 13,954 GRT 20 kn 2 x 6,250 kW Passengers total 1,596 Passengers in cabins 1,096 LPG/Chemical/ Product Carrier "DONAU" Length o.a. Breadth Height Draught Speed 183.00 m 30.00 m 17.10 m 11.87m 16 kn Engine 5,440 + 4,080 kW Deadweight 32,3391 Tank capacity 30,207 cbm We built 39 LPG-Tankers I f I ^ i -t m f 1 ,^M We build: Livestock Carrier for 125.000 Sheep Length 195,00 m Breadth 37,10 m Height 17,80 m Draught 10,50 m 14 sheep decks, freshwater evaporator 150 to/day, 20-fold air change in cargo hold, automatic fodder plant, automatic drinking water supply, dung removing plant. MS ' AL SHUWAIKH" was converted from an oil tanker. Cruise Vessels - Passenger Ships - Car- and Passenger Ferries - NH3/VCM/PO-LPG-Carriers Chemical Tankers - Ro/Ro-Vessels - Reefers - Heavy Lift-Ships - Livestock-Carriers - all kind of high sophisticated vessels up to a length of 220 m and a breadth of 32 m. High-Pressure Air Compressors - Tank and Alu Constructions - Repairs and Conversions of all types of ships (Drydock: 240 m x 35 m — dividable). Circle 200 on Reader Service Card 18 liams, Showa Maritime USA; and Jorgen Withseidelin, Italian Line, Neptune Orient Lines, and Polynesia Line. Mr. Tavrow, who served as the 1985 chairman, was reelected to that office for 1986. BP Pipelines Names Croxson President Jeremy P.G. Croxson has been named president of BP Pipelines Inc., and will be located at the com- pany's offices in Rye, N.Y. He pre- viously served as manager, marine and special systems, Pipeline and Terminals Division of BP in Lon- don. He suceeds John L. William- son, who has been named project manager at BP's Group Engineering and Technical Centre in London. BP Pipelines Inc., headquartered in Rye, is owned by BP North America Inc., and has an undivided one-sixth interest in the Trans Alas- ka Pipeline System. Krupp Mak Diesel Relocates Office Krupp Mak Diesel, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Krupp MaK Maschi- nenbau GmbH—one of the world's largest manufacturers of medium- speed marine diesel engines, is relo- cating its office. The new address will be: Krupp Mak Diesel, Inc., 323 Vesta Court, Ridgewood, N.J. 07450, phone (201) 445-6676. For further information on Krupp Mak's range of fuel efficient diesel engines with outputs from 700 to 1,400 horsepower, Circle 48 on Reader Service Card Moran Towing Appoints Kenneth S. Johnson Chief Harbor Dispatcher Russell G. McVay, vice presi- dent of Moran Towing and Trans- portation Co., Inc., has appointed Kenneth S. Johnson as chief har- bor dispatcher for the Port of New York and New Jersey. Mr. Johnson is a veteran of 40 years' experience, ashore and afloat, in the tugboat industry in New York Harbor. He started his career in 1946 as a deckhand on the tugs of the Olson Towing Company. When Olson became part of the Moran organization in 1953, he continued on as an ablebodied seaman, crew- ing on the harbor tugs. In 1964 Mr. Johnson came ashore as a harbor dispatcher at the company's headquarters in Manhat- tan. Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Mr. Johnson comes from a harbor craft family. His father, John S. Johnson, was a captain in the Mo- ran fleet and his son Eric carries on the tradition today as a mate on the Judy Moran. Kenneth S. Johnson served overseas in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953. Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
