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on March 1983Captain Ralph Diaz was recently elected president of the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association at the association's recent meeting. The association represents 46 barge and fleet operations in the New Orleans area. Captain Diaz is operations manager for towing and fleeting with T.
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on March 1983Allied Marine Crane of Portland, Ore., a division of Allied Systems Co., is offering a free product brochure covering its line of hydraulic marine cranes. The brochure describes the features of the 48 standard models of both double tapered box boom and telescopic boom cranes that are availa
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on March 1983Seaward International, Inc., Falls Church, Va., supplied 16 Sea Float pendant buoys to a worldwide drilling company for use on four jackup rigs scheduled for service in the Middle East. The buoys have a unique square cross section that minimizes the ADDRESShazard of their rolling around on
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on March 1983Guided Missile Frigate USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23) was delivered to the Navy recently after completion of its Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) by the Los Angeles Division of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, it was announced recently by Len M. Thorell, vice president and general manager
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on March 1983Getty Trading and Transportation Company of Denver, Colo., recently submitted proposed construction plans to the Santa Barbara Resources Department and the State Lands Commission seeking permits to expand the company's crude oil marine terminal near Gaviota, Calif. The plans also include co
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on March 1983Hi Tech Boat, Inc., the new subsidiary of Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., recently entered into a contract with Fire Island Ferries of Bay Shore, L.I., N.Y., to supply a super-fast commuter boat of revolutionary new construction. The vessel, to be delivered in July, will measure
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on March 1983Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, LaGrange, 111., has released a progress report which outlines the results of a threeyear series of tests conducted by EMD on blended fuels. Contained in the report are what are believed to be among the first electron microscope photographs of catalyst
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on March 1983The Barco Corporation recently celebrated its third anniversary by moving into a new facility located in a new industrial park adjacent to the International Airport in Tampa, Fla. Barco Corporation pioneered a new elastomer flexible impeller used in cooling pumps in marine engines as well a
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on March 1983The recent meeting of the Puget Sound Section of ASNE heard Capt. Timothy R. O'Keefe, USN, commanding officer, USS William H. Standley (CG-32), deliver an address entitled "The Soviet Navy: A Near-Term Capability." An intelligence subspecialist with considerable related operational experience
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on March 1983New area offices in Perth, Australia, and Singapore have been established by Jet Research Center (JRC) of Arlington, Texas. The facilities will provide the complete range of JRC explosive technology to the petroleum, marine construction, and dredging industries. Ron Woods, area manager-busi
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on March 1983A new Monitor 205 marine engine fuel-efficiency system brochure is available from Avicon Corporation of Scottsdale, Ariz., illustrating and describing features which can provide fuel savings up to 30 percent for vessel owners. The four-color brochure defines user performance benefits of the
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on March 1983Jerry L. Holman has been named vice president and general manager of Honeywell's Marine Systems Division (MSD) in Seattle, Wash., a c c o r d i n g to Warde F. Wheaton, executive vice president of Honeywell's Aerospace and Defense business. He will report to Richard J. Boyle, vice president
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on March 1983The battleship Iowa (BB 61) arrived at Ingalis Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Miss., recently for completion of her modernization and reactivation. The 58,000-ton ship had been in New Orleans, La., since September 1982, where Avondale Shipyards Inc. performed drydock
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on March 1983The first of five 20,000-dwt Arctic multipurpose ships contracted by V/O Sudoimport of Moscow for the Soviet Far East Shipping Company was delivered recently by Valmet Corporation, Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, about three months ahead of the contracted delivery time. The Njzhneyansk is a dry c
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on March 1983Two new vice presidents of Tideland Signal Corporation, the Houston, Texas-based designer, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of navigational aids and solar electric generators, have been announced by president S.N. Sprunt. They are Victor G. Taylor, manager, East Coast area, Wilmington,
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on March 1983A PREVIEW The Second Annual National Maritime Show and Maritime America Conference will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center on March 29-31, 1983. Over 90 manufacturers and suppliers of marine-related equipment will display their range of products and services at the Baltimore faci
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on March 1983The Russellstoll Division of the Midland-Ross Corporation, Livingston, N.J., recently assumed total sales and marketing responsibility for Northern Rig Lites, Inc., of Houston, Texas. This product line is to be considered an additional Russellstoll product offering. All existing Russelstoll
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on March 1983Joseph R. Hines has been named vice president of Robin Hood Fleeting Services of Baton Rouge, La. Robin Hood Fleeting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transload and Transport, Inc. (TTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Twin City Barge, Inc. The a n n o u n c e m e n t was made by Wayne Musgrov
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on March 1983Halter Marine, Inc., of New Orleans, La., and Maritime Engineering A.S., of Oslo, Norway, have signed an agreement granting Halter exclusive rights in the U.S. to build all of the ME series vessels in excess of 201 feet. Halter also has the license on a nonexclusive basis worldwide. Maritim
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on March 1983Global Marine Development Inc., Newport Beach, Calif., (GMDI) and Oceanographic Services Inc. (OSI) Goleta, Calif., jointly announced the opening recently of their Anchorage liaison office in the newly constructed Frontier Building. Manager of the new office is Harold Ramsden of Global Mari