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Upcoming Events •Transshipment Conference in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Sep- tember 10-12. Run by Mariport Group Ltd., the event is on cargo shipment and handling concepts for the 1990s. Held at the Loews le Concorde Hotel Grande Allee. Phone: (416) 333-8171; fax: (416) 333-1162. • Baltic & International Maritime Council (BIMCO) in Venice, Italy, September 20-24. The conference program of this general meeting will feature sessions on quality assur- ance and life extension of ships, Europe after 1992, and dialogue between owners and charterers. Held at the Hotel Excelsior, 161 Bagsvaerdvej, DK-2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark, Phone: (+45) 444-44500. •Petroleum Tankship Operations Course in Houston, Texas, Septem- ber 30-0ctober 3. Course for shoreside personnel taught by Arthur McKenzie, New York Trade Center Institute. Phone: (212) 466- 4044. •Admiral of the Ocean Seas (AOTOS) in New York, N.Y., Octo- ber 11. Annual awards dinner for AOTOS. This year award presenta- tions will be made to Warren Leback, U.S. Maritime Administrator, and Charles I. Hiltzheimer, president and chief executive officer of Puerto Rico Marine Management Inc. Held at the New York Hilton. Phone: Barbara Spector Yeninas, AOTOS coordinator (201) 226-6260; or United Seamen's Service (212) 775- 1262. •West Coast Tanker Operations Symposium in La Jolla, Calif., Octo- ber 11-12. Sponsored by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Will be held at the Sheraton Grande, Torrey Pines Resort. The symposium will discuss technical issues relating to tanker operations on the U.S. West Coast. Operating experience and the im- pact of new legislation on the tanker fleet will be among the topics dis- cussed. Contact Harold D.Ramsden, MCA Engineers, Inc., at (714) 662- 0500. • 65th Annual Convention of Pro- peller Club of the U.S. in Brownsville, Texas, October 14-18. Panel sessions will cover Gulf of Mexico fisheries, Shipping Act re- view, foreign trade market assess- ment, pollution issues, and lessons of the Persian Gulf War. Held at Fort Brown Hotel & Resort. Contact Propeller Club of the U.S., 3927 Old Lee Highway, #101A, Fairfax, Va. 22030; phone: (703) 691-2777. •Seatrade Expoship Riomar 91 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 21-25. Conference and exhibition organized by Seatrade. Held at Centero de Canvencoes do Hotel Nacional. Contact Michael Kazakoff, phone: (609) 452-9414 or fax: (609) 452-9374. •Fleet Maintenance in the 21st Century in Virginia Beach, Va., Oc- tober 22-23. Joint symposium spon- sored by the Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet and Anerican Society of Naval Engineers, at the Pavilion Convention Center. Technical pa- pers regarding fleet maintenance management, engineering, logistics and training within aviation, sur- face and submarine fields will be presented. Contact Lewis J. Friedrichsen, M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., 5700 Thurston Avenue, Suite 204, Virginia Beach, Va. 23455; phone: (804) 460-4449; or fax: (804) 464-2801. •Permanent International Asso- ciation of Navigation Congresses (PIANC) in San Francisco, Calif., October 23-25. Regional conference covering future changes and chal- lenges for the U.S. port industry. Held at the Fairmont Hotel. Phone: (202) 504-4312. •MHDS 91: International Sym- posium on Superconducting, Magnetohydronamic Ship Propul- sion in Kobe, Japan, October 28-31. Organized by Ship & Ocean Foun- dation, Tokyo, Japan. Held at the Portopia Hotel. Contact Jetro New York in the U.S. at (212) 997-0448. • Panama Maritime 91 in Panama City, Panama, November 12-15. Conference topics will include the Panama Canal, marine pollution If you're at sea about the marine radio frequency changes, we can help. On July 1st, the frequencies of many channels on your SSB radio changed* Before you can communicate on the altered channels, your radio has to be adjusted. For a free guide listing all the new frequencies, call AT&T at 1 800 874-4000 Ext. 213, toll-free. Your local electronics dealer or the manu- facturer of your SSB radio can adjust your specific equipment. AT&T is always ready to help. Because at sea, nothing is more critical than your ability to communicate. AT&T *As required by the FCC, high frequency channels were affected, while medium frequency channels were not. © 1991 AT&T August, 1991 37
