Medium 1977 Articles
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on October 1977F.X. McQuade, president of Northeast Marine Terminal Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., has announced that a newly formed affiliate— NMT of Georgia, Inc.—has started operations as a complete marine service agency in the South Atlantic Port of Savannah, Ga. The new company, headed by John B. Hohenstei
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on October 1977Intermarine Electronics Inc., a company established in November 1976 for the manufacture and distribution of marine electronics, announces the introduction of its first major product, a completely new marine radar, according to Werner Brack, president. The new radar, called the "Intermarine
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on October 1977The Chinese are on a worldwide buying spree for second-hand tonnage. A survey in the issue of ShipStatS Weekly Report (September 2, 1977) notes that since the beginning of May, the Chinese have bought a total of 33 second-hand vessels, amounting to 572,631 deadweight tons, which have cost t
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on October 1977Five new offshore tugs recently delivered by U.S. shipyards were equipped with American Brons diesel engines from Oosterhuis Industries, Inc. of New Orleans, La. Oosterhuis is the American distributor for Brons and American Brons diesel engines. Oosterhuis Industries also produces and sells t
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on October 1977E.H. Glascock, vice president, marketing and sales, Alco Power Inc., Auburn, N.Y., has announced that its Southwestern Regional Headquarters has been located in a larger, more modern facility. This new location is 3572 East T.C. Jester, P.O. Box 10895, Houston, Texas 77018. From this complex
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on October 1977Thomas F. Robinson has been appointed assistant technical manager of the Central Technical Division of Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Shipbuilding Department, A. Dudley Haff, technical manager, has announced. The Central Technical Division, which is located at the Sparrows Point (Md.) Shipya
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on October 1977Tenneco's Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., recently delivered to the United States Navy one of the world's largest warships, the nuclearpowered aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN69). With the Eisenhower, Newport News Shipbuilding has delivered 10 of the last 14 nuclear-
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on October 1977Rudolph F. Matzer and Associates, internationally known firm of naval architects of Jacksonville, Fla., have designed another ro/ro-containership for Birdsall Shipping Company, Ltd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The Matzerdesigned vessel will be named the Tropic Jade and will feature satellite nav
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on October 1977Ocean Transport & Trading Limited has ordered three cargo liners from Scott Lithgow Limited at a cost of approximately $63 million. Work will start immediately on the ships, and they will be delivered during the second half of 1979 and the first quarter of 1980. Speaking about the contract,
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on September 15, 1977Capt. James F. McNulty, U.S. Navy (ret.), has been appointed as Academic Dean at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, replacing the retiring Dean, Capt. Edward E. Conrad. Captain McNulty is a native of Lawrence, Mass., and is a 1953 graduate of Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He served at sea
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on September 15, 1977The Department of Commerce has announced the award of a $271,508, eleven-month contract to Stanford Research Institute of Menlo Park, Calif., to compare the cost effectiveness of various marine firefighting programs. The Maritime Administration (MarAd) and the National Fire Prevention and C
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on September 15, 1977Richard W. Fetzner, president of Sun Transport, Inc., has been named president of its parent, Sun Trading & Marine Transport, Inc. (S.T.M.T.), succeeding the late Fred E. Buchanan. S.T.M.T., an operating unit of Sun Company, located at 200 West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, Pa. 19087, is engaged
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on September 15, 1977Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, a major Japanese shipbuilding company, has received a license from TBSI Limited to construct rigidly connected tug-barge units, utilizing the patents owned by Tug Barge Systems Inc., New Orleans, La., it has been announced by Edmund L. Hukill, presi
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on September 15, 1977The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) will hold its 66th Annual Convention at the Hotel Maria Isabel in Mexico City, October 23-27. According to executive vice president Richard L. Schultz, this 66th convention marks the first AAPA annual meeting to be held in a Latin American
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on September 15, 1977The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore., recently laid the keel for the first of two large deck cargo barges being built for Crowley Maritime Corporation, San Francisco, Calif. The giant roll-on/roll-off triple-deck trailer barges will be operated in the Carib
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on September 15, 1977The first export vessel of a new design of 26,500-dwt bulk carriers has been launched from the Maua yard of the leading Brazilian shipbuilder, Companhia Comercio e Navegacao (CCN). The vessel, named the Alexandres G. Tsavliris, will be owned by the Greek Tsavliris Group. She was sponsored a
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on September 15, 1977James F. Badger has rejoined Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., as vice president-market research, according to an announcement by Capt. J.W. Clark, president of the New Orleans, La.-based line. Mr. Badger served previously with Delta Line (1967 to 1974) in various managerial capacities. In his n
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on September 15, 1977Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., naval architects and engineers of San Francisco, Calif., have announced the appointment of Hubert E. Russell to the position of assistant chief engineer. Mr. Russell has been a project manager with MGA for 2% years, and will be in charge of the engineering
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on September 15, 1977The Governor of the large state of Giza in Egypt recently met with New Orleans, La., trade officials and expressed the desire for "full cooperation and a better understanding which will, hopefully, lead to fruitful negotiations in the future." Gov. Ahmed Abdel Akher was presented a certific
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on September 15, 1977Marathon Manufacturing Company, Houston, Texas, has announced that with firm construction contracts negotiated in August f o r four of its offshore jackup drilling rigs, a total of $61 million has been added to its marine construction backlog. The contracts for Marathon jackup rigs are with