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on June 1983National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., a wholly owned subsidiary of Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., announced recently that it has been awarded a $5.5-million firm fixed-price contract by Shell California Production, Inc. (SCPI), a subsidiary of Shell Oil Compa
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on June 1983Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., of Mobile, Ala., recently delivered three, 192-foot supply vessels to State Boat Corporation of Houston, Texas. The sisterships are named the M/V State Glory, M/V State Chief, and the M/V State Belle. Built to ABS classification and U.S. Coast Guard certifi
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on June 1983The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a contract valued at $601,000 to Uniflite, Inc., fiberglass boat manufacturer headquartered at Bellingham, Wash., for three 36-foot hydrographic survey launches, according to James J. Doud Jr., Uniflite president. The contract contains an optio
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on June 1983J. (George) Hayashi, senior vice president of American President Lines, has announced the final elements of the company's management realignment. Most of the changes occurred at the time of Mr. Hayashi's appointment as executive vice president and chief operating officer. The operating divi
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on June 1983In a move designed to provide more efficient sales and engineering support for offshore/international accounts, Baldt Inc. has integrated its Houston, Texas, office operation into its corporate headquarters in Chester, Pa. The announcement was made recently by James Palmer, president. With
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on June 1983E.B. Peebles Jr. has been elected senior vice president, transportation and cargo-handling, of Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa. In this new position, he will have overall responsibility for the firm's barge line subsidiary, Dravo Mechling Corporation, and its stevedoring and port manageme
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on June 1983A growth in the demand for chemical tankers is possible dur- ing the next few years if the large number of export-oriented petrochemical projects now under construction come on stream as expected. A report from Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd., of London, notes that 22 petrochemical complex
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on June 1983John F. Sullivan Jr., whose leadership over the past eight years helped establish Bath Iron Works (BIW) as one of the nation's premier shipbuilders, recently announced his decision to retire as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of BIW and vice president of the parent corpora
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on June 1983Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. of New York, N.Y., a major bulk shipping company, recently announced the placement of orders with undisclosed shipyards in the Far East for the construction of four small geared dry bulk carriers of 27,000 to 30,000 dwt for its international fleet. Two of th
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on June 1983A second Marco Class 1-D oil skimmer was delivered recently to the Panama Canal Commission. The 38-foot skimmer features Marco's Filterbelt, the key component of all Marco skimmer systems. The Filterbelt separates oil and debris from the water without taking the water aboard. The system has
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on June 1983Canadian Pacific, one of the world's largest merchant shipping companies, has ordered Atlas radar systems worth $1.2m from Krupp Atlas-Elektronik for installation on 23 ships of its worldwide fleet of cargo vessels, medium-size tankers, and VLCCs. Additional dual-systems have also been spec
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- AMSHIP & Navidyne Demonstrate First Successful Transfer Of Data On Great Lakes Via Satellite page: 10
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on June 1983A recent series of tests conducted aboard a U.S. Great Lakes bulk carrier may help to hasten the widespread acceptance of satellite communications on the Great Lakes. The event was the first successful demonstration of computer data transfer between ship and shore via satellite on the Great L
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- National Marine Service Offers Free Brochure Detailing Shipyards —New No. 7 Drydock In Service page: 10
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on June 1983Quick, quality service at a competitive price is the central theme of a brochure being offered by the Shipyard Division of National Marine Service, Incorporated, of St. Louis, Mo. The 12-page, full-color publication highlights the division's capabilities with detailed information on hull repa
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on June 1983Hellenic Lines Ltd. moved toward completion of its pacemaking $320-million modernization program with the recent commissioning of the M/V Hellenic Wave, the third of four Prideclass vessels being converted to fully cellularized containerships by Cantieri Navali Rinuiti, S.p.A., Palermo, Ita
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on June 1983New Policies And An Oil And Gas Bonanza Promise A Bright Future Recent news from the Canadian Arctic and the offshore continues to give promise of a bonanza of oil and gas. Exploration activity is proceeding at a good pace despite the oil glut and the drop in energy prices. The petroleum
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on June 1983REVIEW AND OUTLOOK The year 1982 began with a relatively healthy amount of work in hand but a weak order book. CSSRA yard employment reached a 10-year high of 14,200 in March but by December this had become a 10-year low of 8,500, a drop of 5,700 people or 40 percent of the work force. The
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- AWSC -- Anticipating A Better Future page: 48
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on June 1983In these hard times, we are all experiencing- severe economic strains, and we are all looking for the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel." Over the last few years, many events have coincided bringing both the economy and this segment of the shipbuilding industry to a virtual standst
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on June 1983The general economic climate of our country is, to a great degree, dependent upon its national t r a n s p o r t a t i o n system, which serves as a vital link in the chain of production, distribution and sale of goods in both domestic and export trade. In order to ensure that this vital sys
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- A Surge In Activity For 1984 page: 34
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on June 1983We have seen the offshore drilling rig market go from full employment a year ago January to its lowest utilization rate — 68% in the Gulf of Mexico and worldwide approximately 80%, in that span of time. I have to go back to the Eisenhower years to recall anything as bad as we have in the Gu
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- U.S. MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING page: 28
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on June 1983For the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repairing industry, 1982 was a year of disappointments mixed with blessings. Blessings in the sense that the proposed five-year Navy shipbuilding and conversion plan will provide a measure of stability for the industry. Disappointments in the sense that a