Long Maritime Reporter 1985 Articles
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- Electronic Mail Techniques Save Thousands Of Dollars In Message Costs, According To NAV-COM Report page: 55
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on September 1985A study recently completed by NAV-COM Incorporated gives conclusive proof of the cost-benefits of using electronic mail for teletype message traffic ship and shore. A typical commercial ship can save $7,000-$ 11,000 per year in satellite calling charges, according to the NAV-COM analysis, wh
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- Detroit Diesel Allison Announces Significant Engineering Advancements To Its Series 149 Engines page: 37
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on September 1985Detroit Diesel Allison (DDA) Division of General Motors has announced significant engineering advancements to its Series 149 engines (now designated "Silver 149s") used extensively in mining, construction, industrial and marine applications. One technological advancement credited with a 6 to
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on August 15, 1985Aberdeen, Scotland—September 10-13 Offshore Europe 85, the seventh in the series of biennial, high-technology offshore oil/gas industry exhibition/ conferences, will be held September 10-13 at its new permanent home—the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre at the Bridge of Don. At th
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on August 15, 1985The 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo, the first of five Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) designed and built by General Dynamics' Quincy, Mass., shipyard for charter to the Military Sealift Command, will serve as floating warehouses for vehicles, fuels, ammunition, food, medical supplies, and other te
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on August 1985The 46,052-grt luxury cruise liner Holiday (shown above on sea trials) has been delivered by Aalborg Vaerft in Denmark to Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. of Panama. She is designed and built as a steel-hulled, twin-screw/rudder, passenger cruise ship with raked stem, transom stern, bulbous bow, b
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on August 1985FOR MORE INFORMATION If you wish to receive additional information on any of the yards described in the review, circle the appropriate reader service numbers) listed under each company's name, using the postage-paid card bound into the back of this issue. BAY SHIPBUILDING Circle 10 on Rea
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on August 1985I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you on behalf of AWO to testify on H.R. 1936, legislation to impose annual Coast Guard user fees of $476 million. The Coast Guard continues to feel the effects of budget constraints and the addition of new statutory responsibilities. However, it
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on July 16, 1985A/S Wichmann of Norway reported the first WX28, a V-8 heavy-fuel engine, passed its first 12 months of operation earlier this year. The engine, which has a maximum continuous rating of 3,000 hp at 600 rpm, has now logged a total of 7,000 operating hours on board the M/V Bommeloy. In addition t
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- U.S. NAVY OVERHAUL MARKET page: 24
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on July 16, 1985This article is an excerpt from IMA's recent quarterly update on the Navy ship maintenance and overhaul market. Information is current as of 1 July, except where noted. ANALYSIS OF FUTURE CONTRACTING Navy has issued a new ship maintenance planning schedule covering FY 1985-1986. We have an
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- WEST COAST SHIPYARD page: 14
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on July 16, 1985—A Review— FOR MORE INFORMATION If you wish to receive additional information on any of the yards described in the review, circle the appropriate reader service numbers) listed under each company's name, using the postage-paid card bound into the back of this issue. BOEING Circle 10 on R
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on July 16, 1985The experimental windship Alcyone arrived in New York recently after a highly successful trans-Atlantic crossing from La Rochelle, France. The maiden voyage, with Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard, was designed to test extensively the Cousteau-Pechinev Turbosail ™ wind propulsion system wi
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- West Coast Shipyards page: 34
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on July 16, 1985In our world of rapid and continuous change, we have come to accept many situations and events which, just a few years ago, we would have thought "could never happen": the first man on the moon; Japan's technological ascendancy over many major U.S. industries; $33 per barrel oil; the breakup
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on July 16, 1985More than 80 key marketing and sales executives representing some 40 leading marine machinery manufacturing companies currently selling to the U.S. Navy attended a recent seminar in Washington, D.C. conducted by the Marine Machinery Association (MMA). Rear Adm. James Nunnelly, USN (Ret.), p
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on July 16, 1985Rados International Corporation, Naval architects and marine engineers of San Pedro, Calif., has announced completion of a new design to convert existing tuna purse seiner fishing vessels into mid-water stern trawlers. Under a contract with the Fishing Company of Alaska, Rados was recently
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on July 16, 1985Survival capsules are lowered from offshore rigs with winch systems that contain overrunning clutches capable of withstanding extreme shock loads. Whittaker Corporation, La Mesa, Calif., selected Formsprag® overrunning clutches manufactured by the Industrial Power Transmission Division of D
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on June 1985This month, June 1985, the Seafarers International Union will commission what is reported to be the world's first interactive, color day, night and dusk visual shiphandling simulators. Located at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, Piney Point, Md., this facility contains a full bridge
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- Southwest Marine Yard Repowering San Francisco Commuter Ferries With Detroit Diesel Allison Engines page: 104
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on June 1985New diesel engines in three of San Francisco's commuter ferries are expected to save their owner, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, more than a quarter-million dollars a year in fuel costs. A pair of fuel-efficient Detroit Diesel Allison 16V-149TIB engines are repl
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on June 1985FOR MORE INFORMATION If you wish to receive additional information on any of the products described in the review, circle the appropriate reader service numbers) listed under each company's name, using the postage-paid card bound into the back of this issue. ALLWEILER Allweiler Pump Inc.,
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- MariChem 85 page: 106
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on June 1985London—June 25-27 MariChem 85, the sixth meeting in this series of conferences on the marine transportation, handling and storage of bulk chemicals, will be held in the Kensington Exhibition Centre, London, England, from June 25-27, 1985. The nearby Royal Garden Hotel, a modern five-star
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- CRUISE '85 SHIPS • OPERATIONS • SERVICES page: 100
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on June 1985London June 19-20 Cruise 85, the first international conference and exhibition for people involved in the management, operation and services of cruise shipping, will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, on June 19-20. The two-day event is being organized by the U.K. Secretar