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on December 15, 1981The second meeting for the 1981 82 season of the Flagship Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers had a unique format. It was held at a location close to the working place of many members, the Crystal City Marriott, which was also near a metro subway stop for the convenience of o
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on December 15, 1981The largest hopper dredge ever built in the United States — the Stuyvesant — was launched at Avondale S h i p y a r d s recently. The oceangoing dredge is owned by Stuyvesant Dredging Co., a partnership formed by the subsidiaries of Zapata Corp. and Boskalis Westminster Inc. The Stuyvesant
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on December 15, 1981The Sun Company, Inc., announced recently that it has signed a letter of intent for the sale of the assets of its Sun Ship subsidiary of Chester, Pa., to Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Levingston is a privately held company that
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on December 15, 1981An agreement to build in Saudi Arabia the world's largest lubricating oil refinery was signed in Riyadh recently by representatives of the General Petroleum and Minerals Organization (Petromin)— the Saudi Arabian state oil agency — and wholly owned subsidiaries of Standard Oil Company of Ca
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on December 15, 1981Wendle Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of the HUDCO Group based in Morgan City, La., announced that Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., has recently delivered the 112-foot offshore utility vessel M / V Lamnalco Mallard to Lamnalco Limited, Dasmah, Kuw
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on December 15, 1981A meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held recently at the Buttonwood Restaurant in New York City, featured a presentation on the Marine Chemist. The topic, "Is This Ship Gas Free? An Overview of the Duties and Training of a
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on December 15, 1981A $3-million vessel traffic control system covering the 12-mile harbor approach at Gothenburg, Sweden, will be installed by Norcontrol of Norway, one of the A.S. Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk group of companies. It is anticipated the system will be in service by the fall of 1982. Similar systems hav
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on December 1981The Coast Guard has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking regarding maneuvering performance standards for new U.S.-flag vessels — oceangoing tankers and product carriers, passenger ships, c a r g o s h i p s, miscellaneous vessels, and Great Lakes bulk carriers. With regard to tan
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on December 1981Two veteran shipbuilders have combined their knowledge of surface ship, submersible and cryogenic technology to propose transporting liquefied n a t u r a l gas (LNG) from the Arctic by submarine tanker. P. Takis Veliotis, General Dynamics' executive vice presidentmarine and general manager
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on December 1981The world economy depends on the speedy, reliable transport of dry cargo across the oceans. Most of that cargo is carried either in drybulk carriers or containerships, both of which are highly evolved forms of ocean transport. Two technical papers focusing on the development of these ships
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on December 1981The Sperry division of Sperry Corporation, Great Neck, N.Y., has introduced a unique, all-digital ship control system called the SRP-2000. John V. Walsh, vice president and general manager of the division's M a r i n e S y s t e m s Unit, stated the SRP-2000 is more than an autopilot, ". .
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on December 1981A dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place recently for a new $10-million Bell Halter shipyard that is nearing completion in East New Orleans, La. Bell Halter Inc. was formed in 1980 by Bell Aerospace Textron, Division of Textron Inc., and Halter Marine, Inc. of New Orleans, to pro
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on December 1981Edward F. Mclntyre, general chairman of the Marine Section of the National Safety Council, announced recently that 12 specialists in accident prevention were cited by the organization f o r outstanding p r e s e n t a t i o ns that advanced efforts in safety f o r workers in the U.S. maritim
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on December 1981Another milestone in a growth story was announced by Frank Nemec, p r e s i d e n t of Marsea Agencies, Houma, La., who revealed recently that Marsea had taken delivery of their 13th supply boat, making the new Marsea group one of the prominent growth companies on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
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on December 1981RCA Missile and Surface Radar, Moorestown, N.J., has received $339 million in contracts for Aegis weapon systems for three additional U.S. Navy ships in the Aegis class of guided missile cruisers. The awards cover production and integration effort for the third and fourth cruisers in the s
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on December 1981The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently held its first meeting of the 1981- 82 season at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. This dinner/technical meeting, attended by 88 members and guests, featured a technical p£.- per, "Reducing Fuel Consu
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on December 1981EMH, Paris, France, will build two CALM — Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring — buoys for Petroterminal de Panama, S A . (PtP). The turnkey contract was awarded t h r o u g h Morrison-Knudsen, acting as agent for the pipeline company. The two SPMs will be built by EMH at the Tamese yard in Spain a
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on December 1981The New England section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its annual student papers meeting recently which was attended by over 60 members and student members. The first paper, entitled "Influence of Design and Fabrication on Underwater Ship Maintenance and Repai
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on November 15, 1981The Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Co. (UPSCO) in Ontonagon, Mich., recently launched its first vessel to be built under contract. Hull No. 001—a 1,053-ton tug for an integrated tug-barge (ITB) system—is being built, along with four barges, for the State of Michigan. It was the first commercia
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on November 15, 1981Lester Rosenblatt, p r e s i d e nt and chairman of the board of M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., one of the nation's leading independent naval architectural and marine engineering firms, recently announced the promotions of Zackary Awer and Stephen Halpern to vice president, and Stephen Dunlap t