Maritime Magazines Archive
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on November 1983Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron announced recently the introduction of an inexpensive high-quality point-to-point microprocessor- controlled receiver with important advantages for seagoing vessels and coast stations. A brochure is offered describing the receiver. Microprocessor contr
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on November 1983The S.S. Mormacsun, a tanker owned by Moore MacCormack Lines, Bulk Transport Inc., is burning $168 in fuel less per day utilizing combustion trim control systems manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Combustion Control Division, headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, according to a W
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on November 1983The Sedco 602, an offshore drilling rig, now in Singapore, has become the 2,000th user equipped for maritime satellite communications. With its newly installed ship earth station, the rig has access to the international maritime satellite system operated by INMARSAT, which provides the satel
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on November 1983Burrard Yarrows Corporation of Vancouver has received an order from the Canadian Government to build two Type 1100 Navaid/Light icebreaking vessels at a total cost of Can. $108.5 million. Construction will begin early next year. The icebreakers are to be constructed at the Burrard Yarrows y
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on November 1983A new generation of premium quality energy-efficient motors with power factor correction to 95 percent has been announced by Reliance Electric Co., Euclid, Ohio. Highly efficient and compact capacitor technology provided by Reliance Electric Company's affiliate Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corp
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on November 1983The Seattle Hilton is the site for the November 29 to December 1, 1983, meeting of ASTM Committee F-25 on Shipbuilding. The committee's various subcommittees are currently processing hundreds of shipbuilding industry standards. Included is an initial group of Navy MIL-SPECS and Standard Dra
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on November 1983Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. Seoul, Korea, for eight bulk carriers with an option for four more, the shipbuilding company president, Hong, In-Kie reported recently. The U.S. $140-million contract for the 45,000-dwt
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on November 1983"Zinc: Its Corrosion Resistance," a 200-page book that brings together much detailed information and data on the corrosion resistence of zinc and zinc-coated steel, is available free of charge from Zinc Institute Inc., New York, N.Y. The book is divided into four chapters which deal with th
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on November 1983MARCO Pacific Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of MARCO Seattle, has announced plans to build a new design tuna purse seiner. The vessel is 58 meters long, 11.5 meters wide, and 5 meters deep, with a carrying capacity of 700 metric tons of frozen tuna in 12 refrigerated brine wells. T
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on November 1983In order to provide high quality chemical transshipment service in the U.S. Gulf area, Stolt-Nielsen, Inc., the Connecticut-based parcel tanker group, contracted with Maryland Marine, Inc. for three stainless-steel barges which meet the strictest requirements to barging between their large p
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on November 1983A new shipyard company, the Boston Shipyard Corporation, has formally opened in East Boston, Mass. The company has taken over the former Bethlehem Steel property, inactive since the fall of 1982. Boston Shipyard is performing a mixture of commercial and government repair work. The company
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- N e w M o n i t o r i n g System Can Reduce Fuel Costs — L i t e r a t u r e A v a i l a b le page: 34
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on November 1983A hardware/software package used to monitor ship fuel consumption and propulsion engine efficiency, was announced recently by Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS), Stamford, Conn., and Seaworthy Engine Systems, Inc. (SES) of Essex, Conn. Albert C. Song, vice president/ mini-micro systems a
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on November 1983Reportedly the first completed exhibit of the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair became a reality recently when the 1,000 passenger paddlewheel riverboat Creole Queen was christened in New Orleans. The new 190-foot by 40-foot sternwheeler which was built by Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La.,
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on November 1983"Trains" of freight barges crisscrossing the world's oceans, lakes and rivers, is the goal set by the Barge Train Division of American Metal Bearing, Inc., which has announced the introduction to the commercial market of its "Flexor," a flexible steel and synthetic rubber barge connector tha
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on November 1983The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will hold its Annual Meeting, the 91st, in conjunction with an expanded International Maritime Exposition at the New York Hilton Hotel on November 9-12, 1983. The Technical Program promises to be outstanding with presentations of 12 techn
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on November 1983The 40,876-dwt bulk carrier Kepbreeze was recently delivered at the Chiba Works of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Tokyo, to her owner, Kepmount Shipping Private Ltd. of Singapore. She is an energy conserving, labor-saving flush deck bulk carrier with forecastle and poop, equipped
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on November 1983(EDITOR'S NOTE: Last March at a meeting of financial analysts in New Orleans, Hugh J. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO), forecast a turnaround for the offshore drilling industry by early 1984 as the result of the Department of the In
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on November 1983Bill W. Rice has joined American Metal Bearing Co. (AMB) of Garden Grove, Calif, as director of its recently acquired Barge Train division. He is a program management, production, and sales specialist with more than three decades of experience. Barge Train's sole product is the Flexor, a fl
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on November 1983Butterworth Systems (U.K.) Ltd., recently announced the appointment of Martin Smith as Tank Cleaning Machine Product Line Coordinator. He is responsible for marketing of crude oil washing and water washing equipment for ships and for rental of portable tank cleaning and land based equipment
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on November 1983The Navy has identified $22 million in cost avoidance through opening previously sole source contracts to competition during the period April—June 1983. Since the spring of 1982, the Navy has established Competition Advocates at all major contracting activities. These Competition Advocates