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on April 15, 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, one of the Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG) group of companies, has announced a $50-million construction program that will result in the addition of 19 new vessels during the next two years. Richard M. Currence, Gulf Fleet president, said deliveries will
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on April 15, 1981Long Beach Container Terminal, Inc., recently ordered two Transtainer® cranes from Paceco, Inc. of Alameda, Calif. Paceco, worldwide manufacturer of dockside, terminal, and shipboard container handling cranes, is a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, Detroit. The two r u b b e r - t i r ed
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on April 15, 1981This year's American Society of Naval Engineers ASNE Day meetings will be held on Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The theme of the technical program is "Naval Design and Engineering —- New Dimensions." In addition to the two full days of techni
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on April 15, 1981Members of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met recently to hear the presentation of a paper titled "Evaluation of Concepts for Improved Controllability of Tank Vessels," by Eugene Miller, Vladimir Ankudinov, and Thomas Ternes. Both Mr. Miller a
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on April 1981The first floating drydock in Texas south of Houston was launched (photo above) at the Port of Corpus Christi recently. The facility has the capacity to lift boats and barges weighing up to 1,300 tons, and is operated by Jay Bludworth Inc. The first vessel hauled out for repairs on the 108-
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on April 1981O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft recently delivered a contract to supply a hopper suction dredger with a hopper capacity of 1,500 cubic meters. The contract was placed by Heinrich H i r d e s GmbH, Hamburg. The dredger will be built to Germanischer- Lloyd class +100 A4 "Dredger" +M
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on April 1981A recent SNAME New England Section meeting was held at the Faculty Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The speaker was Lyssimachos Vassilopoulos, president of Maritech, Inc. He presented a paper titled "Stiffness and Damping of Thrust Bearings," Engineering
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on April 1981Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Wash., has reported the best year in the company's 60- year history. The company's yearend backlog, at more than $300 million, also is the highest recorded, said Frank B. Lynott, chairman. For the year 1980, Tacoma Boatbuilding had net income of $4.6 mil
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on April 1981The Krupp-Owned Buckau- Walther group has been commissioned by Abu Dhabi's Water and Electricity Department to supply a floating seawater desalination plant worth about 21-million Deutschemarks (about $10.5 million). It is one of the first units of this kind in the world, and the first comm
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on April 1981Barge shipments of grain destined for export reached a record 1.95 billion bushels in 1980, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The share of all export grain carried by barges last year reached 40.3 percent, also a record "These impressive figures a
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on April 1981The 133,361-dwt bulk carrier World Dulce (shown above) was completed recently at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen for Kingdom Company S.A., Panama. This large-capacity bulker was developed specifically to meet world industry's growing raw materials needs. Ore and coal will be her main carg
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on April 1981Now offered as an option from Gems Sensors Division, Transamerica Delaval Inc., are level switches and level transmitters with e x p l o s i o n - p r o o f junction boxes. This option is approved by Factory Mutual (FM) for Class I, Division I, Group D hazardous areas. The level switches of
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on April 1981Boat watchers around the Great Lakes may be momentarily confused next year when three wellknown U.S. Steel ore vessels appear on the horizon with new silhouettes (shown above, top). Robert D. Goldbach, vice presidentshipping for U.S. Steel's Resource Development group, announced recently th
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on April 1981May 4-7, 1981-Houston The Offshore Technology Conference is the definitive international forum on ocean resources exploration and production. OTC attained this distinction early in its 12-year history and continues to build on its own success by annually creating the most conducive atmosp
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on April 1981The contract oil and gas well drilling industry is enjoying an unprecedented boom, both on land and offshore, around the world. New construction of drilling units is announced almost daily. The ability of drilling contractors to order offshore drilling units is often limited by the availabil
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on April 1981Tracor has introduced a new Satellite Navigator. Named after the North Star and the submarines which first tested the Transit system, the Polaris SatNav is a full-feature, total-performance system at a competitive price. Its housing is sleek yet functional with a yoke that provides overhead,
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on April 1981Robert E. Curry Jr. has been named vice president and head of the Legal Department, and Kathleen Ritch has been named secretary of the Ogden Corporation, it was announced by Ralph E. Ablon, Ogden chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Curry j o i n e d Ogden in 1975, and has been vice pr
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on April 1981John (Jack) J. McCarthy has been named to the newly created position of director of sales at Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries Inc. In this position, he is responsible for all the division's product sales, including construction and industrial OEM, p e t r o l e um OEM, North Ame
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on April 1981The South Jersey Port Corporation recently awarded a contract for $5,152,500 to Raymond International Builders of Rochelle Park, N.J., the low bidder, for construction of the final 540 feet of the Beckett Street Terminal Wharf extension, Camden, N.J. This contract is part of an overall $16-
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on April 1981Wesley D. Wheeler Associates of New York City has announced that Neorion Shipyards Syros Ltd. and Peiniger GmbH have formed a joint venture company, NEPECOR, to offer shipowners internal gritblasting and coating facilities at Neorion Shipyard, which is on the island of Syros, Greece, a Medi