Maritime Magazines Archive
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on August 15, 1978The Gobierno Municipal de Ponce (City of Ponce), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, recently ordered a Portainer® crane from Paceco, Inc., a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, Alameda, Calif. Mayor Jose G. Tormos Vega represented the City of Ponce during the contract signing for a 40- long-ton P
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on August 15, 1978The Sixth International Conference and Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG-6) will be held April 6 through April 11, 1980, at the International Conference Hall in Kyoto, Japan. Sponsored by the International Gas Union, London, England, the Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, 111., an
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on August 15, 1978On September 22,1978, the Honorable John M. Murphy, Chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Congress of the United States, will receive the coveted AOTOS Award, and will be named "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," in the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, New York City. The ti
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on August 15, 1978D.J. O'Rourke, vice presidentmarketing, has announced several organizational changes in the Marketing Department of Abex Corporation, Denison Division, Columbus, Ohio. The changes have been made, he said, to further increase the effectiveness of service to the division's customers for fluid
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on August 15, 1978Tenn-Tom Towing, Inc., 25 North Section Street, Fairhope, Ala., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two steel oil barges and two oil screw towboats. The vessels will be operated in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and on related connecting river system
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on August 15, 1978Robert J. Blackwell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, has authorized the award of a contract to Bender Welding and Machine Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala., for the construction of a fisheries research vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He als
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on August 15, 1978A new b r o c h u r e , "Offshore Chloropac® Systems," is available from the Systems Department of Engelhard Industries. Engelhard's Chloropac Generating Systems, skid-mounted, produce sodium hypochlorite for elect r o l y t i c decomposition of salt water with very l i t t l e e l e c t r i
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on August 15, 1978Beliard, Crighton & Cie S.A., the leading French ship repairer based at Dunkirk, recently opened its fourth drydock with the docking of the South African container vessel S.A. Sederberg. Measuring 50 meters by 310 meters (approximately 164 feet by 1,017 feet), the new drydock is capable of
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on August 15, 1978The Energy Bureau announced that Congressman John M. Murphy, Chairman of the House ad hoc Select Committee on The Outer Continental Shelf, will keynote its national two-day conference on offshore oil. Entitled "Offshore Oil: Challenge And Change," the conference will be held on November 2 and
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on August 15, 1978A paper on direct calculation methods in ship structural design presented by Lloyd's Register of Shipping at a recent international shipbuilding symposium, "Preparing for the Eighties," organized at Newcastle upon Tyne northeast England by Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk of Norway, attracted internatio
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on August 15, 1978Dillingham Tug and Barge Corporation (DT&B), Honolulu, Hawaii, has been awarded a government contract by the Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., to provide tug and barge service between Honolulu, Johnston Island, and Eniwetok Atoll as part of the United States effort to restore livi
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on August 1978Crowley Maritime Corp. has ordered construction of two additional 580-foot, triple-deck barges for the Caribbean roll-on/roll-off service operated by its subsidiary, Trailer Marine Transport Corp. Carrying up to 374 forty-foot trailers each, the new barges will be identical to Crowley's La R
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on August 1978The HMAS Adelaide, the first of three guided missile frigates to be built for the A u s t r a l i a n Government, was recently launched at Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation Seattle (Wash.) Division. Five others of the same design are being built at Todd- Seattle for the United States Navy. T
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on August 1978Franz Krautkremer, president of the Schottel Group of Companies, recently officiated at the opening of new offices of Schottel of America, Inc., now located at 8375 N.W. 56th Street, Miami, Fla. 33166. Schottel, the world's largest supplier of specialized propulsion equipment, has offices, wa
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on August 1978Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. has been awarded a contract to build a pipelay barge for the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), Abu Dhabi. The pipelay barge, measuring 106 meters in length (about 348 feet), 30 meters in breadth (about 98 feet), and 7.5 meters in depth (a
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on August 1978Joseph H. Lennox has been named general manager of General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass. Mr. Lennox, who has over 21 years of shipbuilding experience, joined General Dynamics at Quincy in 1973, and most recently served as assistant general manager of the division, wit
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on August 1978The June meeting of the Long Beach- Greater Los Angeles Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers was held jointly with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. The more than 160 participants who were members of each or both Societ
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on August 1978A new, large enclosed ship production facility has just been officially opened in England by Cammell Laird, part of the stateowned British Shipbuilders group, with headquarters on the River Mersey. Opening ceremonies were performed by Princess Anne, who by pressing a button lifted the keel sec
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on August 1978H a l t e r M a r i n e , I n c . o f N e w O r l e a n s , L a . , h a s d e l i v e r e d t h e J o n e s T i d e a n d t h e L a u g h - l i n T i d e , t w o i d e n t i c a l s u p p l y v e s s e l s , t o t h e i r o w n e r , T i d e w a t e r , I n c . , N e w O r l e a n s . E a c h v
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on August 1978The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and the Marine Technology Society have announced plans to sponsor an International Symposium on Marine Salvage to be held in New York City next year. The conference, scheduled for October 1-3, 1979, at the New York Hilton Hotel, will bring m