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on August 1980The Marine and Rail Equipment D i v i s i o n of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore., launched the barge Cape Flattery at their side launch ways on the Willamette river recently. The 253-foot covered deck barge, built for P u g e t Sound Freight Lines of Seattle, has a 4,400-ton cargo capacity.
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on August 1980Propulsion Systems, Inc., Kent, Wash., has been awarded a series of major contracts to furnish controllable-pitch propellers, bow thrusters, and rotary vane steering gear on the large and medium class dredges being built for the Army Corps of Engineers. Both the large and medium class dredg
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on August 1980A contract to construct six icebreaking, m u l t i - p u r p o s e cargo vessels of 20,000 dwt has been signed by Wartsila's Turku Shipyard and V /O Sudoimport of the U.S.S.R. Designed in cooperation with the Soviet Ministry of Shipping, their future operator, the ships will be capable of op
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on August 1980Experience gained by U.S. ship operators With diesel propulsion will form the main theme of a two-day seminar to be held in the New York Hilton Hotel on October 28- 29, 1980. Entitled Dieselcare 80, the seminar is being organized by Intec Press, Ltd. and will follow the pattern of Intec's suc
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on August 1980Hitachi Zosen and an affiliated yard recently completed two ships for Liberian owners. Hitachi's Maizuru yard delivered the 27,916-dwt bulk carrier O Sole Mio to Stellar Shipping Corporation. She is designed to carry grain and/or lumber, as well as heavy cargoes like steel coils. For handli
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on August 1980Todd Shipyards Corporation has reported improved sales and earnings f o r the first quarter ended June 29, 1980. Todd currently has a backlog of $1.5 billion, and a good earnings trend is expected to continue, the company reported. At its Annual Shareholders Meeting, held in New York recent
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on July 15, 1980Houston Pipe Line Company and Valley Pipe Lines, Inc., Offshore Division, both subsidiaries of Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG), have announced plans to construct a 92-mile, 20- inch gas pipeline in state waters off Padre Island, Texas. When completed, the pipeline will be the longest
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on July 15, 1980Mangone Shipbuilding of Houston has launched a 245-foot special purpose vessel being built for Sun Transport, a division of Sun International, Inc. The Northern Sun (shown above), ABS classed A-l oil carrier Maltese Cross AMS, is a self-propelled twinscrew motor tank vessel. It will be deli
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on July 15, 1980Nedbarges Sublift B.V., shipowners of Schiedam, the Netherlands, recently took delivery in Rotterdam of the semisubmersible, oceangoing deck cargo barge Sublift Atlantic. Built by B.V. Scheepswerf "De Hoop" of Lobith, the Netherlands, the vessel is 135 meters long with a beam of 31 meters a
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on July 15, 1980A recent keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, initiated construction of the second of three 37,500-dwt product carriers being built for Union Oil Company of California. E.P. Barnett, vice president, refinery and supply, Union Oil Company, and
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on July 15, 1980Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron announced recently that agreement had been reached with Britain's Redifon Telecommunications Ltd. to transfer ownership and operation of Redifon's Marine Division to the newly formed Electro-Nav International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Electro-
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on July 15, 1980Cast Containers S.A. of Fribourg, Switzerland, recently announced that the Cast Group has just ordered three new vessels to be built in Korea for its North Atlantic Container Service. This order is in addition to three container vessels contracted for in Yugoslavia earlier this year. The to
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on July 15, 1980Two identical oceanographic research ships ordered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be constructed by Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Fort George Island, Ga., at a total cost of $5,- 900,000. Building of both vessels at the same time is expected to effect a saving of about $250,000. A
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on July 15, 1980The international problem of a decreasing world's fuel supply, as both demand and cost are increasing, will be addressed by the maritime community in a symposium, to be presented by the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers on September 22 and
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on July 15, 1980The Dixie Dredge Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., a subsidiary of Pott Industries Group, St. Louis Ship Division, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, has shipped the first of five new Dixie dredges and associated equipment to the Egyptian Dredging Company of Cairo, Egypt, it was announced by Jack
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on July 15, 1980The Fairbanks Morse Engine Division of Colt Industries has received an order for four large Colt/Pielstick marine diesel engines with auxiliary equipment from Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle. Announcement of the $8.6-million order was made by Thomas J. Bullock, div
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on July 15, 1980William F. Cleary, long-time secretarytreasurer of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., has been honored by AWO's board of directors and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) for his outstanding record with the Association. Mr. Cleary, who has been with AWO since 1952, plans to retire t
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on July 15, 1980Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently received two new contracts, won in stiff competition with other shipyards. These two new orders will expand the orderbook at the Pandan Road yard, which previously consisted of five supply vessels, four jackup-type drilling rigs, and one jackup-typ
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on July 15, 1980O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft of Lubeck, West Germany, has received an order for the construction of a hopper suction dredge with a hopper capacity of 4,000 cubic meters. The order was placed by the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Tourism, Directorate General of Seaco
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on July 15, 1980Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation demonstrated its powerful new fireboat recently at the Poydras Street wharf in New Orleans. Named Gulf Fleet No. 40, the new boat is the 100th vessel to join Gulf Fleet Marine's growing fleet of tugs, towing/supply vessels, crew and utility boats, and offshore