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on December 1977Seatrain Shipbuilding Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of Seatrain Lines, Inc., has announced the appointment of Edward P. Hellenbrecht as chief marine engineer. In making the announcement, John Serrie, president of the company, said: "Mr. Hellenbrecht will be responsi
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on December 1977Dr. Charles O. Heller, president of CADCOM, Inc., Annapolis, Md., has announced the appointment of F. William Helming as program director for CADCOM's Washington, D.C. office. In his new position Mr. Helming will have responsibility for sales and marketing, liaison with Government and comme
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on December 1977Bernard Frankel has been elected president of IMODCO, 10960 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024, rapidly expanding offshore marine terminal systems division of Amtel, Inc., it was announced by Amtel chairman / president Jerome Ottmar, who had previously also held the top IMODCO po
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on December 1977Perko, Inc. has just released their new 1978-79 full line Catalog- #230. This edition illustrates and describes thousands of marine lights, hardware and accessories for boats and ships of all types and sizes, including scores of new and improved products introduced in recent months. The new
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on December 1977In keeping with the growing demands of the offshore market, Jim Darby has recently been appointed sales engineer for Bird- Johnson's Gulf Coast office located at 6430 Hillcroft, Houston, Texas. This assignment represents an expansion of the company's regional resources. Mr. Darby will work
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on December 1977Det norske Veritas has recently issued the publication "Guidelines and Requirements for Towing Declarations." The increasing number of towing operations now taking place necessitates such guidelines, which are the first of their kind. The publication lays down the requirements for the towed
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on December 1977John Perez, general manager of Comet Marine Supply Co., New York, N.Y., has announced the appointment of Comet as marine distributor for John Crane Mechanical Seals and Packing, manufactured by Crane Packing Co. Crane is one of the world's largest manufacturers of seals for pumps and simila
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on December 1977The XlVth Conference of ICHCA (International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association) will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from May 26 to June 1, 1979, under the theme "From Raw Material to Finished Product." R.P. Holubowicz, the chairman of the council and executive board of the associat
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on December 1977In the fall of 1972 General Dynamics signed the first contracts in the United States for the construction of 125,000 cubic meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. Subsequently, in 1973 and 1976, contracts for additional vessels were signed for a total of 12 ships. This series of essenti
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on December 1977Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation, Greenville, Miss., an established builder of inland river towboats and barges, has begun constructing boats for the offshore industry. Currently under construction is a 112-footlong by 26-foot-beam offshore utility boat. The vessel was designed by the na
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on December 1977Rapifax Corporation has supplied United States Lines with nine Rapifax 100 units domestically, and seven overseas, creating the first high-speed facsimile system for the transmission of stowage information in the intermodal transport industry. This gives United States Lines the capability to e
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on December 1977Everett L. Case, vice president of marketing for the Process and Gas Division of Worthington Compressors, Inc., has announced senior management positions on his marketing and sales staff. Named to the marketing staff are Daniel J. Schiffhauer, director of marketing for process compressors a
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on December 1977Marine Electric RPD, Inc., has announced a new addition to the Galbraith-Pilot Marine line of Salinity Indicators. The single point monitoring salinity control system, the Sea Watch Seven, is a compact and complete solid-state salinity indicating and alarm system designed to measure and con
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on December 1977The annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held at "The Harrison," Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada, the weekend of October 7-9, was attended by more than 130 members and guests. The Section was honored to host
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on December 1977Earle V. Maynard presented a brief paper entitled "Strict Liability, Its Impact on the Marine Field" at a recent dinner meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Mr. Maynard outlined the potential problems over recent court interpretati
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on December 1977Marine Equipment Suppliers, Inc., 601 Jefferson Street, Suite 3600, Houston, Texas, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a self-propelled, reel pipelay ship. The ship, to be named Apache, is expected to begin work in the Gulf of Mexico, and later may be
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on December 1977Transport Minister Otto Lang "piloted" an icebreaker through a frozen channel recently to officially open ARCTEC Canada Limited's new Canadian headquarters. It was a simulated, yet extremely realistic "maiden voyage" in ARCTEC's new ice tank, a sophisticated testing facility to determine th
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on December 1977The Philadelphia, Pa., Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its October meeting at the Airport Holiday Inn in Essington. Seventy members and guests attended the technical session to hear a paper entitled "New Flexible Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Facility," p
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on December 1977The Maritime Administration has released a two-volume technical report which provides a comprehensive engineering and economic analysis of various improvements that can be applied to conventional two-heater steam turbine propulsion machinery systems to improve overall specific fuel consumpt
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on December 1977Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., has announced that it has been awarded a contract for the construction of two 150- foot offshore oil-supply boats. The contract includes options for two more identical vessels. The vessels are being built for the State Boat Corporation of Houston,