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on November 15, 1977Kenneth W. Verge was named director of long-range planning and product development, and Fritz K. Weimann was named director of engineering at Skagit Corporation, Sedro-Woolley, Wash., according to Skagit's president and chief executive officer Ralph A. Clack. Mr. Verge is a 24-year Bendix emp
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on November 15, 1977James F. Slatic has been named president of the Ameron Protective Coatings Division, according to William E. Steele, corporate group vice president. The Ameron Protective Coatings Division, based in Brea, Calif., develops, produces and markets a broad line of high-performance coatings, surf
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on November 15, 1977A concentrated five-day course on the design, fabrication, installation and maintenance of deepsea oil production structures will be presented January 23-27, 1978, at the University of California, Berkeley. Staffed by a faculty of internationally recognized authorities from the University a
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on November 15, 1977Seaward I n t e r n a t i o n a l , Inc., 6269 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Va. 22044, has announced that J. Michael Ringelberg has joined the company as director of marketing. Mr. Ringelberg will be responsible for marketing Seaward International's SEA CUSHION fenders, SEA FLOAT buoys and f
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on November 15, 1977The newly organized Spanish ship classification society FIDENAVIS, and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have entered into an agreement of full cooperation between the societies, it was announced by Robert T. Young, chairman and president of ABS. Under the agreement, the American and S
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on November 15, 1977The so-called 1973 "oil crisis" had an important effect upon the international trade in hard coal, as it did much to arrest the decline in the use of coal as an energy source. However, up until now, the seaborne trade in hard coal has been centered almost entirely on the coking coal requirem
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on November 15, 1977Concurrent with the National Council Congress and Exposition in Chicago, 111., October 17-20, Todd Shipyards Corporation held its own Safety Conference at the Oxford House Hotel in Chicago. Attending the Todd Conference were safety engineers, personnel managers and workers' compensation cla
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on November 15, 1977Kawasaki Heavy I n d u s t r i e s , Ltd., a major Japanese firm, has agreed to endow a research fund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a gift of $200,000. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is a machinery manufacturer whose principal business lines are ships, aircraft, rolling stock
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on November 15, 1977Shipyard Equipment Company of Baltimore, Md., recently delivered to Tenneco's Newport News Shipyard six of the world's largest air hoists. The transaction included four J.D. Neuhaus air hoists with 25- ton lifting capacity, and two with 50-ton lifting capacity. The two 50-ton units are the
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on November 15, 1977Construction of a new roll-on/ roll-off dock for the Port of Tampa, Fla., will begin in December under a $658,000 contract awarded by the Tampa Port Authority. The facility, which will be adjacent to Public Berth 202 at the Holland Terminal, will fill an important need at the port, according
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on November 15, 1977Capt. C.R. North has been appointed vice president-sales of M o r a n - T h i b o d e a u x Shipping Agencies, Inc., it was announced by F. Robert Black, president and chairman of the board. Captain North will be headquartered in the World Trade Building in Houston, Texas, with sales respons
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on November 15, 1977The American Society of Naval E n g i n e e r s (ASNE), Northern New England Section, had their September dinner meeting at the Officer's Club, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Guest speaker for the meeting was Comdr. T. Martin, USN, 57th Commanding Officer of the USS Constitution. Commander Mart
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on November 15, 1977William C. Lorch has joined Alaska Maritime Agencies, Inc., as Valdez port manager, according to an announcement by David R. Enroth, general manager of the Seattle, Wash.-based steamship agency. Mr. Lorch served previously with Cascade Shipping Company in various managerial capacities. In
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on November 15, 1977Since the start of the tanker crisis at the end of 1973, many ideas have been suggested for mopping up the large volume of tanker tonnage which is now surplus to requirements. One of these ideas is the use of tankers for oil storage. For some time (even before the tanker crisis broke), tank
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on November 15, 1977Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Limited of Great Britain have received an order to build a specialized vessel costing approximately $8,750,000 to carry spent nuclear fuel from Japan to France and the United Kingdom. The ship has been ordered by Pacific Nuclear Transport, a subsidiary of British Nu
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on November 15, 1977W.A. Whitney Corp., Rockford, 111., an Esterline Company (NYSE), the leading manufacturer of metal fabricating machinery and the originator of 28XX style tooling, recently introduced a new combination catalog and price list on their 28XX style punches and dies. These punches and dies are us
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on November 15, 1977The 90,000-deadweight-ton S/S Overseas Ohio, the second of four San Clemente-Class tankers ordered for subsidiaries of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG), was delivered on October 20 to its owner by National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif. The ships were contracted for in
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on November 15, 1977A. Newell Garden has been promoted to director of public relations of Raytheon Company, Lexington, Mass. His responsibilities will include both external publicity and press relations, and internal editorial services. Mr. Garden joined the diversified electronics company in 1953, and has hel
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on November 15, 1977Lloyd's Register of Shipping has given approval in principle to the Gaz-Transport/McDonnell Douglas Corporation's LNG containment system. This combines Gaz-Transport's flat 36 percent nickel-iron alloy-membrane and an improved version of the Mc- Donnell Douglas Corporation's three-dimension
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on November 15, 1977John Calicchio, chief executive officer of Argo International Corp., has announced that Argo Marine has been named national distributor for Sealol (formerly Chempro) mechanical seals and mechanical packings. Argo will stock these products in their nationwide distribution and warehouse netwo