Medium Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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on January 15, 1981Bob Daniels, vice president of Marland Environmental Systems, Inc., has announced the recent signing of a license agreement with Skimovex B.V., a Netherlands research and development company. Under the agreement, Marland received exclusive rights to manufacture and market the Inverto® oil/w
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on January 15, 1981A major new development in FORAN, the internationally recognized computer aided system for ship design and production, was announced recently by Senermar, a leading Spanish firm of naval architects and marine consultants. A new interactive version has been developed that allows FORAN not on
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on January 15, 1981Future prospects for communications in the international maritime community, including the offshore industry, are now assured as a result of a $180-million decision made by the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) in London recently. This key decision involves the lease
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on January 1981Three appointments have been made in Crowley Maritime Corporation's International Division, according to a recent announcement by Richard F. Andino, San Francisco, Crowley vice president and general manager of the division. Tom Pickford has been appointed manager of marine operations, a new
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on January 1981At the recent Fish Expo in Boston, Caterpillar Tractor Company's Engine Division announced two improved models in its marine diesel engine line. One is a new, direct-injection configuraof the well-accepted turbocharged and aftercooled 3412 marine engine. The direct-injection 3412 DITA versi
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on January 1981Offshore Power Systems (OPS), located in Jacksonville, Fla., has recently formed a marine design services division. A staff of over 100 engineering, design personnel complemented by a Computer-Aided-Design and Drafting System, a fully equipped and professionally staffed model shop, and a moder
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on January 1981The Curacao Drydock Company, Inc. of Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, recently opened a propeller service station that can accommodate propellers of nearly any type and size. The station came about by an agreement with Lips B.V. of Holland whereby several Curacao Drydock engineers
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on January 1981Texas Instruments Incorporated has just introduced a TI 9930 Talking Navigator Accessory Option with Autopilot Output f or use with its Loran C based navigation system. Using the new Speech Option, the commercial boat operator situated anywhere on the vessel where there is a speaker can rec
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on January 1981The Moss, Norway, yard of Moss Rosenberg Verft A/S, a member of the Kvaerner Group, recently delivered the liquefied petroleum g a s / c h e m i c a l tanker Hektor to A/S Nordsjogas of Stavanger, Norway. The ship has a total cargo capacity of 24,000 cubic meters divided in three tanks. The
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on January 1981Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc. (MGA) has just been awarded a level-of-effort design contract by the Military Sealift Command, Pacific (MSCPAC), under which the San Francisco firm of naval architects and marine engineers will be called on to assist in design and engineering work associate
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on January 1981A joint meeting was held in November at the Fort Meyer Officers' Club by the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Washington, D.C. Section of the Marine Technology Society. The paper, the National Science Foundation Drilling Programs— A Status R
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on January 1981Fast-growing Megasystems, Inc., designers and manufacturers of state-of-the-art m i c r o p r o c e s s o r electronic monitoring and control systems is building a full-scale additional executive and manufacturing center in Boca Raton, Fla. The Cleveland-based Megasystems originally planned t
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on January 1981Promet Private Limited of Singapore, in collaboration with Baker Marine Corporation of Ingleside, Texas, has announced the signing of contracts with Sedco, Inc. of Dallas to construct two self-elevating, cantilever beam mobile drilling platforms. These repeat orders from Sedco follow a contrac
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on January 1981The retirement, effective January 31, 1981, of Steven M. Moodie as president and director of Interocean Shipping Company and its subsidiaries, Venoil and Venpet, Inc., and Steamship Service Corporation has been announced by Thomas T. Church, vice president, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, tran
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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