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on December 1990Hitachi Zosen's Ariake Works in Japan recently completed the 275,993-dwt tanker Sea Duke, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) which was delivered to the owner, Resilience Shipping Company Limited. The 1,070-foot-long by 185.7-foot-wide tanker is a sister ship of the M/T Sea Prince, which was co
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on December 1990Cruise + Ferry, a biennial trade show which focuses on the lucrative cruise and ferry market, has been scheduled for May 29-31, 1991 at the Olympia 2 Conference and Exhibition Center in London, England. With the cruise industry in an explosive stage of passenger growth and supplier consolida
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on December 1990CG-68, the 15th of 19 Ticonderoga Class Aegis guided missile cruisers to built by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton, Pascagoula, Miss., was recently christened Anzio. Principal speaker for the event was Congressman C.V. Montgomery of Mississippi's Third Congressional District. Aegis s
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on December 1990Supplemental Funding Package Likely The projected cost for U.S. naval operations related to Operation Desert Shield through September 30 has more than doubled—from $230-million to $490-million —according to figures released by the Pentagon recently. Pentagon officials attributed the increas
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on December 1990The 1991 Ship Production Symposium, sponsored by the San Diego Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Ship Production Committee, National Shipbuilding Research Program, has been scheduled to be held in San Diego, Calif., September 4-6, 1991. Technical session
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on December 1990Congress, in late October, appropriated $900 million to fund a new fast sealift program. When added to the $375 million remaining from last year, a total of $1.3 billion is now available for initiating a major ship construction effort. High priority has suddenly been accorded sealift— and it
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- OUTSTANDING OCEANGOING SHIPS OF 1990 page: 20
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on December 1990In the midst of a world shipbuilding boom, with the highest level of tonnage under construction and on order in 13 years, shipyards are once again producing a number of interesting, economical and innovative designs. The highly competitive, burgeoning cruise industry has been a particular so
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on December 1990Comsat Maritime Services recently introduced its new SeaMail® service, a satellite-based electronic mail service for mariners. According to John R. O'Brien Jr., Comsat's vice president of marketing and program management, "The new SeaMail electronic mail service lets mariners send and receiv
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on December 1990Beckman, Limited of Wakefield, R.I., builder of antique and classic launches and tugboats, recently delivered a 30-foot steam tugboat to Peter Van der Veld of Malvern, Pa. Moored on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, this new tugboat is the first in Delaware waters in over fifty years. The
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on December 1990Fabrica de San Carlos (FSC) (San Carlos Factory) of San Fernando (Cadiz), Spain, which began its activities in the marine industry in 1964, has since specialized in the design, fabrication and startup of marine boilers. In 1971, as a sister company of Astilleros Espanoles, San Carlos Factor
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on December 1990Burrard Clean Operations Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has contracted with MARCO Pollution Control, one of the world's largest builders of oil spill recovery vessels and systems, for the construction of a new design 75-foot spill recovery boat. Additionally, in an unrelated proj
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on December 1990Meyer Werft of Papenburg, Germany, recently delivered the LPG/ ammonia carrier Skriveri to AKP "Sovcomflot" of Moscow. This newbuilding is the third ship in a series of six gas carriers for the USSR. Upon completion of the series by the autumn of 1991, the yard will have built a total of 45
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on December 1990The Trinity Marine Group, Gulfport, Miss., and a team of Swedish engineers have joined forces to develop the construction process for a new double-hull tanker design. The new design is the Series 2000 double-hull tanker, developed by Rutger Deylin of Fram Shipping, in association with S.I. S
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on December 1990NEI Syncrolift of Miami, Fla., one of the world leaders in shiplifting technology, recently announced orders for five more Syncrolifts for locations around the world in Europe, Japan and the Pacific. These new orders, worth a total of more than $3 million, bring the total of Syncrolifts inst
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on December 1990The American Waterways Shipyard Conference (AWSC), a conference within The American Waterways Operators, represents the interests of the small- and mediumsized or "second-tier" yards in the shipbuilding and repair industry. These yards build and repair the tugboats, towboats and barges for
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- Are American Shipyards Competitive? page: 17
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on December 1990U.S. YARDS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THEIR FUTURE It had been assumed by many observers that, with the termination of construction subsidies in 1981, American shipyards could not win competitively placed commercial ship orders. But current trends indicate that American yards are beginning to pay at
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on December 1990Judging from what was said at the Round Table organized by the Association of Marine Architects and Naval Engineers of Spain (AINE), held recently in Madrid, the European shipyards have found the formula that will enable them to compete successfully with their Far Eastern counterparts, and t
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on December 1990Sea-Land Service, Inc., Edison, N.J., has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with MAN B&W Diesel A/S, Holeby Diesel, Denmark, for repowering the generating sets on board its twelve 4,140-TEU Atlantic Class containerships, formerly U.S. Lines' Econships. Under the contract, Holeby Diesel
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on December 1990Balehi Marine, Inc., Lacombe, La., recently delivered the 1,800- horsepower towboat Lake Charles to Conoco Oil Company. Based on Balehi Marine's standard 1,800- 2,400-hp towboat design, the Lake Charles has a length of 81 feet, beam of 28 feet, depth of 11 feet and draft of 7 feet 6 inches.
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on December 1990NKK Corporation recently announced that it has received an order from Nippon Yusen K.K. (NYK) and Perbadanan Nasional Shipping Line Berhad (PNSL), Malaysia's leading shipping company, to build a 18,000-cubic-meter LNG (liquefied natural gas) carrier. The agreement was signed between NKK and