Medium Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on September 1980Crowley Maritime Corporation recently accepted delivery of the s a l v a g e vessel Arctic Salvor, which provides more line pull than any other salvage vessel in the world, according to Roy D. Jurgensen, Seattle, senior vice president and general manager of Crowley's Northwest and Alaska Di
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on August 15, 1980P.T. Trikora Lloyd, an Indonesian- flag line, marked the purchase of three vessels at a total cost of $45 million in a recent "changing of the flag" ceremony held at Pier 5, Port Authority in Brooklyn, N.Y. With these vessels, P.T. Trikora Lloyd will own five ships on the United States/Sout
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on August 15, 1980Nils Lucander, Lucander Designs of San Perlita, Texas, has announced the formation of a design a s s o c i a t i o n with Dave J. Dowhos of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. This association, says Mr. Lucander, came about because of a mutual need. The Texas firm is overloaded with design work o
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on August 15, 1980Griff C. Lee, vice president of r e s e a r c h and development and technical services, J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his pioneering role in the development of the offshore p l a t f o rm technology now used around the world. The a
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on August 15, 1980The City of San Francisco is preparing to advertise for tenders to build a new fireboat, which has been designed by Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., according to an announcement made by Hugh F. Munroe, president and chief executive officer of the prominent San Francisco-based firm of naval
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on August 15, 1980Marland Environmental Systems, Inc., Walworth, Wise., a leading manufacturer of sewage treatment systems for large commercial vessels, has introduced a flow-through Type II Marine Sanitation Device (MSD) for workboats of small to medium crew size. The new device, named Sani- System® 40, is
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on August 15, 1980A & P Appledore Limited and Det norske Veritas have signed a joint contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Limited, part of one of Korea's largest industrial trading groups, to provide operational and completion assistance for their major and unique shipbuilding complex, situat
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on August 15, 1980The Gulf Coast's first onshore deep-draft oil terminal moved a step closer to reality recently with the issuance of a dredging permit by the Galveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The permit allows the Port of Galveston and Pelican Terminal Corporation (PELCO) to proceed with constr
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on August 15, 1980Halifax I n d u s t r i e s Limited, Nova Scotia, the Canadian shiprepairing company, has reentered the market for fishing vessel new construction with a 27-million Canadian dollar order f o r three stern trawlers f r om National Sea Products Limited. The 1,100-ton vessels—all three keels h
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on August 15, 1980A new Skipper Trawl Eye System for echo recordings from the trawl mouth is now available from Simrad, Inc. of Armonk, N.Y. The system includes a transducer unit for trawl headrope mounting, special "twin-flex" cable and selftensioning hydraulic cable winch, and a Skipper 603 six-inch recorde
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on August 15, 1980Red Fox Industries, Inc. of New Iberia, La., has purchased Port Fabricators, Inc., a Port of Iberia ship repair yard and fabricator of jackup drilling barges. The final papers in the acquisition, the latest in a series of recent expansion moves by the company, were signed recently with Port
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on August 15, 1980First American Bulk Carrier Corporation, a new company owned by the Pension Fund of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (MEBA) and General Shipholding S.A., a firm organized in Luxemburg, has applied to the Maritime Administration for construction differential subsidy (CDS) for two 40
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on August 15, 1980The first vessel extruded from Cammell Laird Shipbuilders' covered construction hall —one of the biggest of its kind in the U.K.— is a Type 42 guided-missile destroyer for the Royal Navy. This operation took place when the destroyer, which is to be named HMS Liverpool, was moved with the aid o
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on August 15, 1980Raymond R. Miles, executive vice president of Barber Blue Sea (BBS), has moved to New York to assume the additional responsibility of the ocean carrier's North American activities. He had been working at the company's headquarters in Oslo. Announcing the appointment, Erik Waage- Nielsen, pres
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on August 15, 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company, has announced the appointment of several new managers in conjunction with a change in organizational structure. T.P. Reardon is appointed manager, Southeast Region, which consists of offices in Jacksonville, Fla., Charleston, S.C., and Pasca
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on August 15, 1980Dravo SteelShip Corporation of Pine Bluff, Ark., has announced delivery of the M/V Pleasants "K" to Pleasants Power Station of Allegheny Power System for operation on the Ohio River at Willow Island, W.Va. The vessel is a standard Steel- Ship design, 56 feet long by 20 feet wide by 7 feet d
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on August 15, 1980Downtime was cut by approximately twothirds when the Western Pacesetter II, a semisubmersible drilling rig, was refitted at Cameron Offshore Service Inc.'s Industrial Marine Division in Cameron, La., for work in the North Sea. With the cost of rig tow time, and a tug on call at $8,000 a day, s
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on August 1980I.C. Kizilkaya has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as assistant vice president and director, hull and machinery design, and John Slager as director, hydrodynamics design. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval arch
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on August 1980Remote areas of Alaska gained a new supply link recently when the 80-foot lighter Kaktovik was launched by MARCO Seattle. The all-aluminum craft is the second of her type built by MARCO for C r o w l e y M a r i t i m e Corporation from a design by L.R. Gloston & Associates, Inc. of Seattle.
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on August 1980An air-applied and spring-released clutch assembly for its line of large and medium size air winches and hoists has been announced by the Joy Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh. The clutch allows controlled free spooling of wire cable off the drum. This capability adds to the safety and vers