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on April 1980Veteran shipbuilding executive Richard W. Thorpe Jr. of Bath Iron Works has been elected to a two-year term as chairman of the C o m m e r c i a l Shipbuilding Committee of the Shipbuilders Council of America, Washington, D.C. Marine Marketing and Long Range Planning manager of the Bath, Ma
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on April 1980A new brochure on applications of shellmold casting is available from ESCO Corporation, Portland, Ore. The four-page color folder explains how the Shellcast™ process produces intricate, precise, finesurfaced castings to extremely close tolerances. Stable molds of Zircon sand and other featu
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on April 1980Three 195-foot by 35-foot by 11-foot 11-inch double-skin tank barges have been constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., for Binion Marine Service of Houston, Texas. The barges are certified by the United States Coast Guard for the carrying of Grade "A" and lower
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on April 1980The annual membership meeting of Western Shipbuilding Association (WSA) was held recently in San Francisco, Calif. Rear Adm. James K. Nunneley, USN, Deputy Commander for Industrial and Facility Management, Naval Sea S y s t e m s Command, Washington, D.C., was the guest speaker. Admiral Nu
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on April 1980Literature is available on a new line blind recently introduced by Marland Environmental Systems, Inc., Walworth, Wis. Ideal f o r use on tankers, barges and associated applications, the device acts to prevent leakage in inert gas systems and pipelines for fluid cargoes, fuel oil and ballast
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on April 1980The Hong- Kong Trade Development Council reports that the Wah-Kwong Shipping Group recently placed an order for a 260,- 000-dwt ore carrier, the largest of its kind ever built. The contract was awarded to the Japanese Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., with delivery expecte
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on April 1980F o u r new 35,000-deadweightton petroleum product tankers have been ordered by Chevron Transport Corporation, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of California, for service in the company's international trades. The diesel-powered vessels will be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in it
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on April 1980The El Paso Company, Houston, Texas, announced that Arthur G. Berndt of New York, who has almost 30 years' experience in the shipping industry, has joined its LNG shipping subsidiary, El Paso Marine Company, as vice president operations. El Paso Marine Company operates a fleet of six of the
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on April 1980G & W Industries, Cleveland, Ohio, r e c e n t l y c o m p l e t e d construction of the fishing trawler Vito C II f o r Vito Ciaramitaro of Gloucester, Mass. The new 96-foot vessel will be used in the North Atlantic. This vessel marks the first new construction f r om the Great Lakes f o r
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on April 1980Above, J. Barry Snyder, president of Houston, Texas-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, and Mrs. Snyder stand proudly with Gunther Kuehl, director of North American sales for MaK engines at the MaK engine manufacturing plant in Kiel, West Germany, with the first of four specially built engines
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on April 1980The U.S. Navy guided missile frigate Clifton Sprague ( F F G 1 6 ) was r e c e n t ly launched 19 weeks ahead of schedule by Bath Iron Works. The ship honors the name and memory of the late Vice Adm. Clifton Albert Frederick Sprague, USN, World War II hero famed for his exploits with aircraft
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on April 1980Columbia, the latest 122-foot combination fishing- vessel built by MARCO Seattle, was christened in Seattle, Wash., recently by Kristine Fuller, daughter of one of the owners. The all-steel vessel is outfitted for crabbing and for packing salmon and herring. Owners of the vessel include Cha
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on April 1980At its recent annual meeting held in New Orleans, La., the Water Resources Congress elected Maurice C. Stout, vice president, Indianapolis Water Company, Indianapolis, Ind., chairman of the board; Tval Goslin, consultant, Western Engineers, Inc., Grand Junction, Colo., vice chairman; B. Jos
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on March 15, 1980Adm. John B. Hayes, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, will be the keynote speaker at the American Petroleum Institute's 1980 tanker conference, May 11- 14, at the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Calif. The conference, which has the theme "Tankers — Energy Lifelines for a New Decade," will d
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on March 15, 1980Allen R. Stern has been named president of Ingram Exploration Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingram Corporation, New Orleans, La., it was announced recently by James A. O'Neill, Ingram president. Ingram Exploration was formed in late 1979 as a result of the corporation's decision to
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on March 15, 1980Marine Drilling Company of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard recently commissioned a 200-foot mobile offshore drilling vessel. James C. Storm, president of Marine Drilling Company, said this jackup is the first of three scheduled for delivery
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on March 15, 1980The Coast Guard has issued a proposal to require all self-propelled vessels of 10,000 gross tons or more, that carry oil or liquid hazardous materials in bulk as cargo or in residue, to install an electronic relative motion analyzer (ERMA) by July 1, 1982. The proposal applies to U.S. vessel
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on March 15, 1980The Port of Oakland, Calif., has prepared plans for the construction and installation of container cranes at the Charles P. Howard Container Terminal now under construction in the Oakland Inner Harbor near Jack London Square. The Oakland board of port commissioners recently approved a proposa
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on March 15, 1980Seaforth Maritime has announced revised plans for one of the North Sea's most ambitious project proposals—a floating airport with a 2,000-foot runway capable of taking four-engined 50-seat aircraft. Seaforth originally proposed an airport based on the hull of a very large crude carrier, but h
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on March 15, 1980The board of directors of National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., has elected Richard H. Vortmann to the new position of executive vice president, and Kristian K. Christensen to the new position of vice president of Planning and Programs. In announcing the promoti