Short Maritime Reporter 1988 Articles
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on June 1988Intertek Services Corporation, with world headquarters in Fairfax, Va., is offering a free, eight-page, full-color brochure on the tasks performed by their registry of 5,000- plus independent contractors. The registry includes expert quality engineers, consultants, inspectors, expediters and
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on June 1988John Biancamano recently joined SPD Technologies as manager- international marketing. In his new position he will be responsible for all international marketing and program development on behalf of SPD's line of military circuit breakers, switchgear and battery monitoring systems. The compa
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on June 1988Soundcoat Company, Inc., of Deer Park, N.Y., has introduced Soundfoam HT, a newly developed sound-absorption material made of a flexible very low density, fireresistant polyimide foam. It provides not only excellent sound absorption but good thermal insulation, as well as being resilient an
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on June 1988Houma Fabricators, a division of L.O.R., Inc., has been awarded a contract for the construction of a 149-foot vehicle-passenger ferry for the State of North Carolina Department of Transportation. The vessel is 42 feet wide with a design draft of 3 feet 6 inches. Scheduled for delivery in Apr
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on May 1988The Port of Portland recently dedicated its $46-million Terminal 2 rehabilitation project as Oregon's State Treasurer Tony Meeker declared the project was "good news for every Oregonian." The rehabilitation project has transformed Terminal 2 into a modern general and breakbulk cargo terminal
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on May 1988Kobelt, manufacturer of high quality marine controls for 25 years, has recently introduced an innovative new two-station, single engine control system for clutch and engine throttle functions. Known as the 2090 Series, it was designed to provide the ultimate in simplicity, durability and per
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on May 1988Ulstein Trading Ltd. A/S of Norway is offering a free color brochure on its high lift rudder, a result of intensive research and several years' experience in ship construction and manufacture of ships' equipment, which provides improved maneuverability and fuel economy. According to the broc
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on May 1988Alfa-Laval, Inc., of Fort Lee, N.J., a world supplier of centrifuges, plate heat exchangers, and watermakers to the chemical, food, mining, marine, power, biotech and numerous other industries, now has available a new eight-page full-color brochure. Titled "Alfa-Laval Service," the publicati
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on May 1988SSPA Maritime Consulting AB of Goteborg, Sweden, has published a four-page color brochure on Roll-Nix, a microcomputer-based system for roll reduction by rudder control. The complete system is controlled by a computer unit with a built-in solid-state rate sensor for independent measurement of
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on May 1988Bird-Johnson Company of Walpole, Mass., has been appointed the exclusive, authorized U.S. service representative for the complete line of marine mechanical engineering products manufactured by Blohm + Voss AG of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Under the new agreement, Bird-Johnson's serv
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on May 1988The Vineyard Spray, a new 82-foot, 300-passenger, high-speed ferry built by Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding, the Duclos Corp. of Somerset, Mass., is scheduled to be commissioned this summer by Bay State Cruises and put into service running daily round trips from Boston to Vineyard Haven in Martha
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on May 1988Tim Parker Sr., chairman of the board, and Tim Parker Jr., president of Parker Towing Company, have announced the promotion of Charles A. Haun to senior vice president, operations, and the addition of Edward W. Peterson as vice president, sales. Mr. Haun has been with Parker Towing since Ja
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on May 1988One of the two partners in Silja Line, Effoa-Suomen Hoyrylaiva Oy, has placed an order for a large passenger ship intended for service on the Helsinki-Stockholm route. The vessel is expected to be delivered in the spring of 1990. At the same time the other partner, Johnson Line Ab, ordered a
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on May 1988James E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott International, Inc., recently announced that the board of directors has formally designated Robert E. Howson, president and chief operating officer of McDermott, as his successor. Mr. Cunningham will reach re
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on May 1988Megator Corporation, of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently completed U.S. Navy contracts valued at $1.3 million. Megator Corporation is the manufacturer of the Megator "Sliding- Shoe Pump." This positive displacement pump had been selected by NAVSEA to undergo extensive NAVSSES testing as a replaceme
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on May 1988J JH Inc., a leading naval engineering organization with facilities located in Crystal City, Va., Portsmouth, Va., Cherry Hill, N.J., Bath, Maine, Panama City, Fla., and Long Beach, Calif., recently announced the expansion of their CADAM capability to their Portsmouth facility. J JH Inc. has
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on May 1988At the Shipbuilders Council of America board meeting held recently in Washington, D.C., James R. Mellor, executive vice president, Marine, Land Systems & International, General Dynamics Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., was elected chairman of the board of directors of the council. Mr. Mellor suc
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on May 1988The maritime college of Nantes, France, recently installed a training simulator that will be used for the training of future engineers for the merchant marine. More than 150 guests, mainly from the French shipping and marine training environment indicated a solid interest in the Norwegian-bu
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on May 1988The Society of Marine Port Engi- neers. New York, N.Y., recently held its 36th annual Fort Schuyler Forum at the SUNY Maritime Col- lege campus in the Throgs Neck sec- tion of the Bronx in New York City. The theme of the forum was "Corrosion Materials and Material Protection," and five tech
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on May 1988ITW Philadelphia Resins of Montgomeryville, Pa., has published a six-page full-color brochure on Chockfast Grouting Systems for machinery installation and foundation repair. Permanent alignment of gas-engine compressors, electric generators, diesel engines, pumps, fans and other rotating an