The election of John P. Coulahan as president and director of Interocean Shipping Company, its subsidiaries Venoil and Venpet, Inc., and Steamship Service Corporation, has been announced by Donald H. Trautlein, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. He succeeds Steven M. Moodie, whose retirement has been announced.
Mr. Coulahan is advancing from his present position as manager of chartering, Steamship Service Corporation, with offices in New York City. He was first employed by Bethlehem Steel in 1952 as a junior clerk in the former Ore Steamship Corporation, New York. He became a senior transportation assistant in 1961, and was transferred to Sparrows Point, Md., in 1962. Mr. Coulahan held various operating positions with Bethlehem's water transportation subsidiaries there, and in 1972 he became general superintendent, marine personnel.
Mr. Coulahan was transferred back to the New York offices in 1975, and became manager of chartering in 1977, the position he held until this promotion.