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engineers or translating them to make them available in English to 

 American naval architects? 



Mr. Russo. Well, essentially it is left to the individual to do his 

 own looking for the information he wants. There are publications 

 both by the British and ourselves which are synopses of teclinical 

 papers. 



Mr. Drewry. That is just British and American which are al- 

 ready in English. I wondered if there was any effort in the naval 

 architectural field to try to analyze papers produced by other na- 

 tionals in their own foreign language, Norwegian, Russian, whatever 

 it might be? 



Mr. Russo. I do not know but I would not be surprised if there 

 was an organization heavily involved in research of that kind. I do 

 not know. 



Mr. Drewey. You do not know of any of it being made generally 

 public? 



Mr. Russo. I do not know. 



Mr. Drewry. You mentioned that MSTS and yourself had been 

 working on weather studies in connection with the routing of ships. 

 A witness last week mentioned that MSTS participation and said that 

 there was evidence that by this pilot program they had that over a 

 million dollars had been saved already by a reduction of time by 

 routing of ships around storms rather than through them. 



To what extent has Maritime been participating in that program ? 



Mr. Russo. I cannot answer that. We do not operate ships. 



Mr. Morse. It is done primarily by the operators themselves. Some 

 of them participate or buy the services from conmiercial forecasters. 

 We operate few if any ships of our own at the present time. 



Mr. Drewry. What I was trying to develop was the extent to 

 which Maritime had looked into the subject and had, shall we say, 

 encouraged operators. 



]\Ir. jSIorse. Mr. Denison can answer that. 



Mr. Denison-. This was thought of and reported on in a study 

 which was the first study by our first research effort with the Maritime 

 Cargo Transportation Conference of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. One of the local weather forecasters who has a service in 

 this regard, volunteered to set forth the system in this report. Our 

 Operations Division has, on certain ships which we have operated by 

 general agency, engaged this service and at the present time is accumu- 

 lating operating experience which is made available to operators. 



I assure you it has real value. A report on Maritime Administra- 

 tion experience was published in the proceedings of the Society of 

 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Teclinical and Research 

 Bulletin, No. 4-1, December 1957, Mr. Allen, of the Operations 

 Office of Maritime, is in charge of this work. 



Mr. Drewry. Wliat is the maritime industry itself doing in the 

 way of research ? They have these problems that involve the elements 

 on the various routes that they serve. 



Are any of the operators or any of the shipbuilders engaging in 

 any kind of research program either individually or collectively? 



Mr. Russo. The Society of Naval Architects has a research and 

 development committee which is divided into several subcommittees 

 each one involved in problems of hydrodynamics, ship structure, and 

 such. 



