Medium Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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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
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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