Medium Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on December 15, 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company, has announced the opening of a new CDI Marine Company office in Washington, D.C. The design office, located in Crystal City at 1735 Jefferson Davis Highway, will provide quick response for engineering and design services to the U.S. Navy and
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on December 15, 1980The Carolina, a 55-foot aluminum pilot boat, was christened recently by Mrs. Ernest F. Hollings, wife of South Carolina's Senator, for the Charleston Branch Pilots Association. The ceremonies at the Carolina Yacht Club in Charleston were attended by the Senator and more than 200 guests, and
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on December 15, 1980IMO® Pump Division, Monroe, N.C., Transamerica Delaval Inc., has developed a unit to blend heavy fuel oil with diesel oil in order to lower power costs of running ship service diesel generator sets and other auxiliary engines. Normally, the use of blended fuel presents logistics problems an
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on December 15, 1980Riverway Shipyard Company, Grafton, 111., recently completed construction of a new double-skin, raked tank barge for Waterways Winona, Inc. of Winona, Minn. It will be used as a midstreaming fuel barge for service in Winona. The double-skin raked barge measures 130 feet by 30 feet by 9% feet.
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on December 15, 1980In order to provide better tug services and to diversify its activities, Sembawang Towing has embarked on a program to modernize its fleet. The company has recently taken delivery of a highly versatile tug, Sea Cheetah, shown above. The tug, built at Singapore Slipway, is powered by two 1,350-
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on December 15, 1980TANO Corporation of New Orleans has won contracts for marine automation systems for 17 new oceangoing vessels since January of 1980. The dollar value of contracts awarded to the company so far this year is $10.7 million. TANO president James J. Reiss Jr. believes the company has been successf
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on December 15, 1980Southern Marine Research, Inc. (SMR), manufacturers of commercial grade marine electronics, have recently introduced a single sideband radio that is within the price range of the average boater who ventures into offshore waters. The Sea Lab 6511, retailing at $649.95, allows the coastal boat
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on December 15, 1980National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., recently launched the 658-foot S S Blue' Ridge, the first of three 37,500-dwt product carriers that NASSCO is building for West Coast Shipping, a subsidiary of Union Oil Company of California. The Blue Ridge hull was const
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on December 15, 1980A paper titled "Mini-OTEC Design and Testing" was presented by Dr. Roger L. Potash of Lockheed Ocean Systems at a meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in San Francisco recently. An OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) plant use
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on December 15, 1980Worley Engineering has been awarded a contract for the conceptual design and detailed engineering of three new platforms to be installed on the Rough natural gas field off the Humber. British Gas plans to turn the field into a storage facility with gas being taken from the national gas tran
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on December 15, 1980The rebuilt 1,800-hp towboat M/V Glen- Karen (formerly the M/V Liberty Bell), shown above, was recently delivered by Riverway Shipyard Co. The M/V Glen-Karen went into the Riverway Harbor Service, St. Louis division of Riverway Co., as a Lock 26 turn boat. The M/V Glen-Karen is the first 1,80
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on December 15, 1980Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered the utility ves- Lamnalco Merlin (shown above) to Lamnalco Ltd. of Kuwait. The new boat will join the fleet operated by Lamnalco, who operate their own vessels and manage vessels of other companies throughout the A
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on December 15, 1980An agreement for Southern Natural Resources, Inc. to purchase Interstate and Ocean Transport Company and its affiliated companies, which own and operate the largest U.S. independent fleet of coastal tank barges and tugs, has been signed by Southern Natural and IOT Corporation of Philadelphia,
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on December 15, 1980The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), an international ship c l a s s i f i c a t i on society, has published the 1980 edition of Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels for Service on Rivers and Intracoastal Waterways. Many sections in the new edition contain revised data, the most s
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on December 15, 1980Biospherics Incorporated, Rockville, Md., reported recently that it has received certification from the U.S. Coast Guard for its Oil Sentry®, oil-in-water monitoring instrument. Commenting on the announcement, Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, president of Biospherics, said: "This is a big step forward
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on December 1980Neorion Shipyards Syros Ltd. has appointed Wesley D. Wheeler to act as thenexclusive agent in the USA. The facility is on the island of Syros, Greece, ancient capital of the Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea. Syros is a Mediterranean crossroads located close to the Dardanelles and the Suez C
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on December 1980A Canadian invention said to reduce the power needed to tow loaded barges by up to 30 percent, introduced in 1976, has seen successful operation for the past four years fitted to a fleet of four 400-foot by 100- foot by 25-foot, 16,500-dwt semisubmerging barges. Developed by Seaspan Developme
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on December 1980McDermott Incorporated announced that its Shipyard Group has purchased 70 additional acres in the Bayou Bernard Industrial District north of Gulfport, Miss., to expand the shipbuilding and repair facilities of its Gulfport Division. Located on the Industrial Seaway approximately a mile east o
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on December 1980The marine consulting firm of McQuade-Cormany A s s o c i a t e s, New York, will conduct a special trade and transportation survey on behalf of a group of labor, management, and state government officials striving to increase international commerce and shipping through Great Lakes ports an
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on December 1980ITT Grinnell Valve Company, Inc. of Providence, R.I., recently introduced the Dyna-Lok highperformance butterfly valve. The new valve is designed to extend the range of conventional butterfly valves with shutoff capabilities of steel gate and ball valves. Use of this product is intended to