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on February 1989Avondale Industries, Inc. and McDermott Incorporated recently announced that they have entered into a Letter of Intent for the sale of certain of the assets of Avondale's Offshore Division, located in Terrebonne Parish, La., that are used by Avondale in its offshore fabrication business. Con
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on February 1989Carrier Transicold, a division of United Technologies, is offering a free 20-page worldwide directory detailing its marine refrigeration and air conditioning sales and services centers. Entitled "Ports of Call World- wide," the publication provides the addresses, telephone numbers, facsimile
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on February 1989Leevac Shipyards, Inc., Jennings, La., was recently awarded two separate conversion contracts. The first contract calls for the design, fabrication and installation of a new stern section for a 110-foot landing craft for U.S. naval operations in the South Atlantic Ocean. The second contract
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on February 1989SPD Technologies, a leading manufacturer of advanced electronically controlled electrical systems protection equipment, has completed its previously announced acquisition of the ship repair division of Pac Ord, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dyncorp. SPD president George M. Gordon said
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on February 1989U.S.-flag shipping and U.S. trade interests will benefit as a result of a new four-year maritime agreement between the U.S. and China recently signed in Washington, D.C., by Secretary of Transportation Jiir Burnley and Qian Yongchang, China's Minister of Communications. "This agreement, whic
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on February 1989Navy Programs Could Bring C$16 Billion In Work To Shipbuilding & Allied Industries Over Next 15 Years Based on a speech by J.W. Serge Poirier, Director-Procurement & Supply Maritime, Canadian Department of National Defense (DND), at the Canadian Maritime Industries Association (CMIA) and
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- MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTS page: 35
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on February 1989The following special section highlights the latest U.S. Navy contract awards for shipbuilding, ship repair and maintenance, shipboard communications, weapons, etc. October 3 Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, was awarded a $27.3-million modification to a contract for repair services for USS Samu
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on February 1989NAVY PROJECTS SPENDING $11 BILLION PER YEAR Editor's Note: This article only forecasts business opportunities in the shipbuilding sector. For a projection of business opportunities in the ship repair and maintenance sector over the next 10 years, see Mr. McCaul's article, "U.S. Ship Mainte
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- Marine coatings & corrosion control page: 16
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on February 1989Last year, the U.S. Senate passed the "Organotin Antifouling Paint Control Act of 1988" which controls the application of tributyltin (TBT) antifoulings in the U.S. In response to this new legislation, several major marine coatings suppliers have introduced new TBTfree antifoulings. Addition
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on February 1989SPD Technologies recently marked its first full year as an independent operating company and also commemorated the 100th anniversary of its predecessor company and the birth of its principal product, the circuit breaker. Ceremonies marking the first and 100th anniversaries were held at the c
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on February 1989B.C. Pacific Capital Corporation recently signed an agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiary Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. to Shieldings Incorporated, a private, Canadian- owned company headquartered in Toronto and Vancouver which has a number of major investments in manufacturing an
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on February 1989The National Shipbuilding Research Program Ship Production Symposium, which will be held September 13-15, 1989, at the Sheraton National Hotel in Crystal City, Washington, D.C., is soliciting unclassified abstracts and papers on a wide range of topics related to advanced shipbuilding procedu
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on February 1989Willcox North America, Inc., a manufacturer of composite flexible oil and chemical hoses used for loading/ unloading barges and tankers, recently opened a sales, service and distribution center in Houston, Texas. The new center, which is located at 9366 Wallisville Road, Building 170, Houst
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on February 1989'Reborn'Cruise Boat Will Operate In Galapagos Islands Runyan Machine & Boiler Works, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., has delivered the Isabela II, an oilfield supply boat converted to passenger service for Empresa Turistica Internacional, C.A. The boat will operate in the Galapagos Islands off the c
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on February 1989—Literature Offered— Valve cages, whether watercooled or uncooled, may have some inherent weaknesses which can lead to serious defects after some thousand running hours. The sensitive spots are the cooling channels, weld area, seat coating and the anti-corrosion coating. The damaged areas
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on February 1989The new JAX 9 Weather Facsimile Receiver from Raytheon produces high-resolution satellite photos and other recordings in 16 gradation levels on 10-inch thermosensitive paper. Because of its built-in timer feature, the JAX 9 can be preset to start and stop during selected broadcasts, allowing
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on February 1989Lister Chain & Forge Inc., a recently incorporated U.S. company, associated with 78-year-old Canadian chain-making and steel forging concern Lister Bolt & Chain, Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., recently announced it would commence the manufacture of ship anchor chain in the U.S. by early April 1989.
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on February 1989Bird-Johnson Company's Pascagoula, Miss., plant manager Jim Elliott has announced plans to expand their marine propeller manufacturing plant to meet the demands of new orders. The current 43,000-square-foot facility, which houses a modern foundry as well as a complete propeller machining and
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on February 1989For over 30 years, MMC International Corporation, Inwood, N.Y., has been serving the maritime industry by manufacturing tank gauging systems, both portable and fixed, along with a variety of vapor control valves widely recognized for their durability, reliability and ease of operation. Of even
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on February 1989Southern Shipbuilding Corporation recently delivered the hopper dredge Sandy Hook to McCormack Aggregates, South Amboy, N.J., after the vessel underwent conversion at the Slidell, La., yard. The 290-foot Sandy Hook was converted from the hopper barge Harold Smith, which formerly transported