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- AWSC -- Anticipating A Better Future page: 48
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on June 1983In these hard times, we are all experiencing- severe economic strains, and we are all looking for the proverbial "light at the end of the tunnel." Over the last few years, many events have coincided bringing both the economy and this segment of the shipbuilding industry to a virtual standst
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on June 1983The general economic climate of our country is, to a great degree, dependent upon its national t r a n s p o r t a t i o n system, which serves as a vital link in the chain of production, distribution and sale of goods in both domestic and export trade. In order to ensure that this vital sys
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- A Surge In Activity For 1984 page: 34
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on June 1983We have seen the offshore drilling rig market go from full employment a year ago January to its lowest utilization rate — 68% in the Gulf of Mexico and worldwide approximately 80%, in that span of time. I have to go back to the Eisenhower years to recall anything as bad as we have in the Gu
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- U.S. MERCHANT SHIPBUILDING page: 28
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on June 1983For the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repairing industry, 1982 was a year of disappointments mixed with blessings. Blessings in the sense that the proposed five-year Navy shipbuilding and conversion plan will provide a measure of stability for the industry. Disappointments in the sense that a
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on June 1983Two years ago the President presented to Congress a program to reverse more than a decade of declining American military strength. In the preceding 10 years, real defense spending had declined 22 percent; our nuclear megatonage had been cut in half; our strategic bomber force had declined b
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- Philadelphia Resins System Solves Alignment Problems On World's Largest Movable Flood Barrier page: 124
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on June 1983To protect more than a million Londoners and an estimated $8- billion worth of property, the world's largest movable flood barrier has been put into operation on the River Thames, eight miles downstream from Parliament Square. The entire island of England, Scotland, and Wales is tilting in
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on April 1983Patti Shipbuilding of Pensacola, Fla. recently delivered the oceangoing tug M/V Navasota to Brazosport Towing Co. Inc. of Freeport, Texas. The Navasota is a 100-foot by 30-foot, 3,600-hp class oceangoing tug and is ABS classed + Maltese cross A1 all ocean towing service, + Maltese cross AM
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on April 1983The Ocean Odyssey, a new super-class Arctic semisubmersible recently completed for Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO) of New Orleans, was christened during impressive ceremonies held at the Oppama shipyard of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. in Japan. After completing sea trials on
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on April 1983"The coming year shows signs of both hope and danger for the U.S. barge and towing industry," the new chairman of the board of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. (AWO), told the association's members recently. "The hope is based on some longawaited signs of economic recovery, which woul
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on April 1983The first ship's keel to be laid in the U.S. Navy's maritime prepositioning ship program was dedicated recently at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard by Gen. Paul X. Kelley, Assistant Commandant and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Marine Corps. In his remarks, General Ke
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- SNAME Announces 1983 Committee Chairmen page: 100
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on April 1983C.L. French, president of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, recently announced the society's committee chairmen for 1983. STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES Advisory Public Service Committee — Donald P. Courtsal, treasurer, Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., and vice pres
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on April 1983The largest, most powerful, diesel-electric, anchor / handling, tug/supply boats ever built in the United States are now nearing completion at Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La. The two new 225-foot, 12,280- hp vessels, the Kodiak I and Kodiak II being built for the Penrod Drilling Corpo
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on April 1983May 2-5, 1983, Houston Discoveries big and small — "Oceans of Discoveries" — will be found at the 1983 Offshore Technology Conference, May 2 through 5, at the Astrodomain Complex in Houston, Texas. It will bring together leading authorities on the offshore industry, scientists, engineers
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on March 15, 1983The North Sounder, reported to be tB8* largest self-propelled oil-spill skimmer in the U.S., was placed in service recently in Seattle, Wash., for the protection of Puget Sound waters by Clean Sound, an organization of 13 petroleum industry companies. The North Sounder will be based in Bell
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on March 15, 1983SNAME Spring Meeting and STAR Symposium W a s h i n g t o n , D.C. — A p r i l 6-8 The maritime world, indeed the world at large, is changing rapidly. What has happened and is going to happen will be the focus of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers' Spring Meeting/STAR Sy
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- 1983 RTCM ASSEMBLY page: 12
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on March 15, 1983Savannah, Georgia - April 17 - 20 The Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) will hold its 1983 Annual Assembly Meeting April 17- 20 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah, Ga. The Assembly is being hosted by the United States Power Squadrons. During the Assembly there wi
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on March 1983Delivery of a new 14,000-tonlifting- capacity drydock, built for Todd Shipyards Corporation, New York, N.Y., by Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company, Mobile, Ala., was made recently during ceremonies at the builder's facility to Todd president Hans K. Schaefer. The new drydock will be ins
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- SECOND ANNUAL NATIONAL MARITIME SHOW page: 46
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on March 1983A PREVIEW The Second Annual National Maritime Show and Maritime America Conference will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center on March 29-31, 1983. Over 90 manufacturers and suppliers of marine-related equipment will display their range of products and services at the Baltimore faci
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on March 1983Bender Shipbuilding and Repair of Mobile, Ala., recently entered into an agreement with Cleaver and Walkingshaw Ltd., naval architects of Vancouver, B.C., which permits the Gulf Coast yard to offer the proven "hostile" class design to the American Offshore Service industry for construction
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on March 1983A $121-million contract for the construction of the first Gulfspanclass ferry for service between Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, and North Sydney, Nova Scotia, was signed recently by the presidents of CN Marine and Davie Shipbuilding of Lauzon, Quebec, Canada. The largest ship ever designe