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on October 15, 1978Largest Ever Gastech Exhibition Will Feature New Technologies In Gas Carrier Design And Offshore Terminals —Speakers Include Middle East Producers And U.S. Importers More than 1,000 delegates are now expected to attend Gastech 78 in Monaco on November 7-10, 1978. The high level of conference
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on October 15, 1978Twenty-seven maritime executives from six countries were elected Members of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) at the semiannual meeting of the international ship classification society held in New York City on September 19. This brings to 406 the number of ABS Members. The new Members a
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- U.S. Navy Awards Ingalls $287 Million Contract To Design And Build First Of A New Class Destroyer page: 20
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on October 15, 1978Litton Industries has announced that its Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, Pascagoula, Miss., has received a U.S. Navy contract in the amount of $287,779,600 for design and construction of the first of a new class of guided missile destroyers to be armed with the advanced Aegis fleet defense w
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on October 1978A newly developed, computerized system— designed to provide shipbrokers, charterers, and shipowners around the world with instant, timely, and accurate information reflecting the constantly fluctuating charter fixtures market — has been announced by Maritime Data Network, Ltd. (MARDATA), Stam
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on October 1978With the rapid increase in the need for large plants in nonindustrialized areas, major Japanese shipbuilders have each developed unique methods to build large plants utilizing their engineering and shipbuilding techniques, such as barge-mounted plants. Some of them have already exported bargem
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on October 1978The effects of a continued worldwide s h i p p i n g depression, rising ship repair costs, and the instability in international currency relationships have all played a part in stalling the long-awaited recovery of the world hull insurance markets. This was the view of William J. Bradford J
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on October 1978Waterborne U.S.-foreign trade will increase by more than 130 percent, and the U.S.-flag merchant fleet is expected to more than double both its deadweight tonnage and percentage of market share in the last quarter of this century, a study commissioned by the Maritime Administration (MarAd)
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on October 1978General Electric Credit Corporation (GECC) announced it has acquired for $89,980,000 the 165,- 000-dwt Thompson Pass, a new crude carrier to transport Alaska oil to the U.S. The vessel will be time chartered to SPC Shipping, Inc., a Simplicity is the key to the Demco packaged sewage treatme
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on October 1978McAllister Brothers, Inc. recently accepted delivery of the 6,000-horsepower shipdocking tug Jabbar from Main Iron Works of Houma, La. The tug is on a longterm charter to ARAMCO and will be owned and operated by I n t e r n a t i o n a l Tug Services, a Saudi Arabian joint venture company,
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on September 15, 1978The Navy has received its first advanced development air cushion vehicle, the JEFF(B), at the Naval Coastal Systems Center, Panama City, Fla. Designed and constructed by Bell Aerospace Textron, the JEFF(B) is ready for a period of intense Navy testing. A complete checkout and shakedown of a
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on September 15, 1978Plans are at an advanced stage for Promet and Jardine Offshore to be merged. The two groups, both of which are major components of Jardine Matheson (South East Asia), form the backbone of Jardine's involvement in the oilfield service industry. In effect, two mergers are planned — on the one ha
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on September 15, 1978Maclver Robinson, OBE CEng FRINA, Surveyor General, Marine Division, Department of Trade, will chair a Joint Conference on "The Effect of the 1978 IMCO Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention Conference on Ship Design and Operation," arranged by The Royal Institution of Naval Architects and
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- World And U.S. Bulk Shipping page: 46
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on September 15, 1978For the first time, H.P. Drewry (Shipping Consultants) Limited will hold seminars in the United States, at which time the firm's directors will share with U.S. maritime executives their expertise and worldwide knowledge. In order to tailor the seminars to the needs of the U.S. executive, th
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on September 15, 1978The Camden Ship Repair Company, a shipyard which has been repairing vessels since 1834, has recently invested a million dollars in purchasing and reconditioning a 700-ton floating drydock. This facility can accommodate ships up to 160 feet in length and 60 feet in beam. The drydock is part of
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on September 15, 1978An Australian naval architect has designed a fast, short-haul containership of nearly 1,600 tons which has a crew of only five men. He is Warwick Hood of Sydney, who said the ship, equipped with the latest technological aids, could be managed by a crew of only two. Mr. Hood said there was no
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on September 15, 1978The M/V George A. Stinson, the first 1,000-foot super ore carrier in National Steel Corporation's Great Lakes fleet, was christened in Detroit, Mich., on August 21 by Mrs. George A. Stinson, in honor of her husband who is chairman of National Steel. She broke the traditional bottle of champ
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on September 15, 1978The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has released an extensive study on the liner segment of oceanborne shipping which examines three national maritime policy alternatives and projects their probable impact on American- flag operators in the nation's foreign trade over the next 10 years. Th
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on September 1978Shortly after the motor vessel Thruston B. Morton was christened on July 8, 1978, at the River Front Plaza in Louisville, Ky., she joined the fleet of American Commercial Lines, Inc., moving tows on the inland waterways system. The vessel was named to honor Thruston B. Morton, former Senator
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on September 1978Over the past year or so, well over 100 secondhand dry cargo ships have been purchased by the Chinese, either for their domestic fleet, or for operation under "convenience" flags. A surprisingly large number of these—possibly over 30—have been bulk carriers, and it appears that the Chinese
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on September 1978In common with most other bulk commodities, the seaborne trade of phosphate rock has been adversely affected by the prolonged world economic depression which followed the "oil crisis" of 1973. This was most apparent in 1975 and 1976, when shipments fell to 26 percent below the peak level of