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MarAd Sets Strict Conditions For APL Foreign-Flag Activities The Maritime Administration (MarAd) announced conditions un- der which American President Lines, Ltd. (APL), a subsidized U.S.-flag ship operator, would be permitted to operate six new foreign-built ships under a foreign registry. Subsidized shipping companies are not permit- ted to operate foreign ships that compete with U.S.-flag vessels with- out a section 804(a) waiver. MarAd said the new ships must be registered in one of five nations which permit U.S.-owned ships to be under the effective control of the U.S. They also must be enrolled in MarAd's Voluntary Sealift Agree- ment that will ensure their avail- ability to the U.S. military if needed. APL also must agree not to scrap or re-flag any U.S.-flag ship covered by its operating subsidy contract prior to Oct. 1, 1995. In addition, APL must agree to transfer the new ships to U.S. registry should a pro- gram like that proposed in the Administration's Maritime Security and Trade Act be enacted into law. Congress did not complete action on the bill this year, but President Clinton has said he would work with the new Congress next year to pass a maritime reform program. "If the administration's maritime reform efforts are successful, these new ships some day will operate under the American flag," Maritime AdministratorAlbert J. Herberger said. "In the meantime, we have ensured that they will remain un- der American control. "In addition, our action preserves American seafaring jobs on exist- ing U.S.-flag ships until the out- come of our efforts is known." APL has said it expects to oper- ate the six new vessels in service under foreign registry in its Pacific South Express loop. The Pacific South Express loop itinerary de- ployment is San Pedro- Long Beach- Oakland-Dutch Harbor-Yokohama- Kobe-Pusan-Kaohsiung-Hong Kong-San Pedro. APL will rede- ploy other ships to its Seattle-Ja- pan service. Three of the ships are being built in Germany and three in Korea. They are expected to be delivered between May and No- vember 1995. MarAd's action came in the form of a conditional waiver of section 804(a) of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended. Section 804 prohibits a subsidized operator from operating a foreign- flag vessel which competes with any essential American-flag ser- vice unless a waiver is granted under special circumstances and for good cause. Other MarAd News Scrapping Sale OK'd The Maritime Subsidy Board has authorized the termination of the Liberty Belle Limited Partnership's (LBLP) Title V contracts relating to the Liberty Belle. The vessel, built in 1976 for Yeon Shipping Corp., with the aid of con- struction-differential subsidy (CDS), has inefficient steam turbine en- gines that render the vessel uncompetitive in international mar- kets. It is being sold solely for the purpose of scrapping and may not be SALES AND S ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS) Radio-Holland Caribbean N V Curacao N A Phone: (09) 61 25 77 Fax: (09) 61 27 23 ARGENTINA Oton R. Klein S.A. 1636 - Olivos - Prov. Bs. As. Phone: (01) 799-5071 Fax: (01) 792-0649 AUSTRALIA Rubin Marine St. Artarmon. NSW 2064 Ptione: (02) 439-2333 Fax: (02) 439-2278 BAHRAIN Aeradio Technical Services Mina Salman Industrial Area Phone: 727790 (6 lines) Fax: 727811 BANGLADESH Graphics Communications Limited Dhaka Phone: (02) 231045/881563 Fax (02) 883627 BELGIUM Antwerp Marine Radio Company N.V. 2030 Antwerp Phone: (03) 541.04.63 Fax: (03) 542.61.73/542.57.98 BRAZIL O.L. Naval Ltda Rio de Janeiro - RJ Phone: (021) 222.5667/292-4148. line 271 Fax: (021) 242.7934 CANADA Radio Holland (Canada) Ltd. B.C. V7J 2C5 Phone: (604) 984 2889 FAx: (604) 983 3344 CHILE Equipos Industriales S.AC.I. Santiago Phone: (02) 6990506 Fax: (02) 6334539 CROATIA Bel Marine Zastupstvo i Servis HRV-51221 Kostrena Phone: (051) 212192 Fax:(051)211179 CYPRUS used in any other capacity. LBLP is required to comply with all appli- cable provisions of the CDS con- tracts and the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended. MarAd Receives Section 9 Applications • Sea-Land Service, Inc. & Affili- ates, Elizabeth, N.J., have asked permission to transfer to Marshall RVICE AGENTS KOREA Ships Electronics Korea Bando Hotel Building, Pusan Phone: (51) 4668072/3 Fax: (51) 4668074 KUWAIT Commercial Co-Ordination Centre w.l.t. • 13113 Safat Phone: 2462347/8 Fax: 2458070 MALAYSIA RH Communications (M) Sdn Bhd Petaling Jaya 47500 Phone: (03) 734-2119/20 • Fax: (03) 734-2127 MALTA Medcomms Ltd. • Gzira Phone: 335521 - Fax: 310820 MEXICO Nautica, S.A. de C.V. 01010 Mexico D.F. Phone: (5) 651 -9740 Fax: (5) 651 -2825 MOROCCO Soremar Casablanca 21900 Phone: 2-307688 Fax: 2-305383 NEW ZEALAND Electronic Navigation Ltd. - Auckland Phone: (09) 3764051 Fax: (09) 3780184 NIGERIA Netarcomms Nigeria Limited Lagos State Phone: (01) 871662 • Fax: (01) 612841 NORWAY AEG Norge A/S 2000 Lillestrflm Phone: (22) 897800 Fax: (22) 897942 PAKISTAN International Aeradio Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. Karachi 75600 Phone: (021) 537800 - Fax: (021) 5870331 POUND EPA LTD. 71-617 Szczecin Phone: 91 232 775 Fax: 91 231 416 PORTUGAL Nautel - Electronica Maritima, Lda. 1300 Lisbon Portland's Ship Repair Business Strengthened With Cascade General Sale Cascade General, Inc., the only marine repair contractor at the Port of Portland's international shipyard, has been bought and recapitalized by Tore Steen, majority owner of Ponderosa Ac- quisition Corporation of Portland. Mr. Steen said the acquisition is designed to improve Cascade General's competitiveness with other West Coast ports for marine repair work for cruise lines, pe- troleum transporters and opera- tors of other large vessels. The Port of Portland, which operates the only public shipyard in the U.S., provides a 982-ft. (299 m) long drydock, the largest float- ing drydock in the Pacific Rim, for ships up to 1,200 ft. (366 m) long. The transaction was financed by Capital Consultants, Inc. of Portland. Terms were not dis- closed. Cascade general was acquired from its four shareholders, Steven H. Anderson, Ernest Brawley, Loy Kahler and Surenda Menon, all of whom will remain with the company in managment positions. The purchase of Cascade Gen- eral follows the recent closure of the shipyard's other marine con- tractors, West State, Inc. in Octo- ber of 1994 and Northwest Ma- rine 1992. Mr. Steen said that the volume of available marine repair busi- ness made it very difficult for multiple companies to compete profitably and survive. The com- pany recently renewed its use agreement with the Port of Port- land, and will formally request the Port to grant it a single-operator agreement, allowing it to exclu- sively provide ship repair services at the Portland ship yard through a long-term lease on the facilities at Swan Island. Founded in 1904 as Albina En- gine and Machine Works, the com- pany operated as Dillingham Ship Repair from 1969 to 1987, when a group of managers and associates bought the company assets and renamed it Cascade General Inc. Today, Cascade General spe- cializes in all phases of ship repair services for oil tankers, general cargo carriers, cruise ships, luxury liners and military vessels. Cas- cade General has recently com- pleted work on two Holland Ameri- can Line cruise ships, the Rotterdam and the Westerdam, and is performing work on the ARCO Sag River, an oil tanker. For more information on Cascade General Circle 106 on Reader Service Card AP. Hadjipieros Limassol Phone: (05) 345972 Fax: (05) 345973 ECUADOR Industrial Anabra C. Ltda. Guayaquil Phone: (04) 309766 Fax: (04) 313694 EGYPT Suez Electronics Free Zone S.A.E. Alexandria - Phone: (03) 806899/807426 Fax: (03) 804196 Suez Electronics Engineering & Trading Ltd. Cairo - Phone: (02) 611124 Fax: (02) 2635219 FINLAND AES Systems Oy. 02201 Espoo Phone: (0) 422155 • Fax: (0) 422908 FRANCE Geolink 13685 Aubagne Cedex Phone: 42.84.24.25 Fax: 42.84.24.18 SO Marine 78500 Sa/trouville Phone: (1) 39.14.68.33 • Fax: (1) 39.13.30.22 GERMANY Elna GmbH - 25462 Rellingen/Hamburg Phone: (04101) 301-00 Fax: (04101) 301214 GREECE Marac Electronics S.A. 18863 Perama - Piraeus Phone: (01) 4314361 Fax: (01) 4314234 GUADELOUPE L.G.E.M. 97110 Pointe A Pitre Phone: 90.89.19 Fax: 90.85.33 HOLLAND Radio Holland Marine B.V. 3087 AB Rotterdam Phone: (010) 4283344 • Fax: (010) 4281498 Sailtron B.V. (yachts only) - 3521 BL Utrecht Phone: (030) 944741 Fax: (030) 937642 HONG KONG Radio Holland Group Hong Kong Phone: 423-9007 Fax: 480-5898 ICELAND Radiomidun Ltd. -101 Reykjavik Phone: (91) 622640 Fax: (91) 626475 INDIA Elcome Marine Services Pvt. Ltd. New Bombay 400 706 Phone: (022) 763 23 48 Fax: (022) 763 23 51 IRAN Kaman Hormozgan Marine Engineering Tehran Phone: (21) 2228020 Fax: (21) 2224502 ISRAEL Alhoutyam Ltd. Haifa 31019 Phone: 4-620804 - Fax: 4-627404 ITALY Generalmare S.r.l. (pleasure/fishing) 16043 Chiavari (GE) Phone: 185 32 27 31 Fax: 185 32 27 31 Societa Italians Radio Marithma S.I.R.M. SpA (deep sea) 00143 Roma Eur Phone: (06) 596141 • Fax: (06) 5920771 Compagnia Generale Telemar 00196 Roma Phone: (06) 3221800 Fax: (06) 3240148 IVORY COAST Optim Afrique Abidjan 18 Phone: 251843/256727 Fax: 257937 JAPAN Kaigai Gijyutsu K.K. • Yokohama 231 Phone: (045) 664 7318 Fax: (045) 664 7320 KENYA East African Maritime Eng. Ltd. • Mombasa Phone: (11) 472979 • Fax: (11) 472975 Phone: (01) 3970085/6/7 . Fax: (01) 3970084 QATAR Eastern Technical Services Co. • Doha Phone: 441412/441413 Fax: 329292 SAUDI ARABIA Key Communication Development Ltd. (KCD) Dammam 31411 Phone: (03) 8336940 Fax: (03) 8330728 SENEGAL Optim Senegal - Dakar Phone: 234930 • Fax: 229676 SINGAPORE Radio Holland BV Singapore 2263 Phone: 862-2218 Fax: 862-2430 SOUTH AFRICA Cape Maritime Electronics (Pty.) Ltd. Cape Town 7441 Phone: (021) 551-3204 • Fax: (021) 551-3206 Radio Holland Group, Paarden Eiland 7405 Phone: (021) 511-0864 Fax: (021) 511-7577 SPAIN Nautical 28700 San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid) Phone: (91) 6549411 • Fax: (91) 6549600 SWEDEN Transtema AB • 436 33 Askim/Goteborg Phone: (031) 680450 Fax: (031) 683660 Racal Svenska AB, 42658 Vastra Frblunda Phone: (031) 292100 Fax: (031) 292109 TAIWAN R.O.C. Shin Hsiung Fong Electric & Co., Ltd. Kaohsiung Phone: (07) 5514905 Fax: (07) 5212983 TANZANIA The Old East African Trading Co. (T) Ltd. Dar es Salaam Phone: (051) 32248 Fax: (051) 32250 THAILAND Scan Pacific Co., Ltd. - Bangkok 10110 Phone: (2) 390-2210 - Fax: (2) 381-2763 TUNISIA Alcatel Tunisie 1080 Tunis Cedex Phone: (1) 717177 Fax: (1) 719888 TURKEY Miihendis Hilkal Bolulu Co. (public) - Istanbul Phone: (212) 243-4576 Fax: (212) 244-3739 Elektro-Deniz Ltd. Sti. (private) • Istanbul Phone: (212)243-4937 Fax: (212) 243-5218 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Elcome International' Dubai Phone: (04) 371335 Fax: (04) 373426 UNITED KINGDOM S.P. Radio (UK) Croydon (pleasure/fishing) Phone: (081) 686-5363 Fax: (081) 688-9081 Ships Electronic Seivices Ltd. (commercial shipping and military) Greenhithe, Kent DA9 9NL Phone: (0322) 385053 • Fax: (0322) 387007 URUGUAY Electromaritima Uruguaya Ltda. Montevideo Phone: (02) 947139 Fax: (02) 947138 USA Radio-Holland USA, B.V. • Houston • Texas Phone: (713) 943-3325 Fax: (713) 943-3802 VENEZUELA Radio Holland De Venezuela S.A. 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