Medium Maritime Reporter 1983 Articles
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on November 15, 1983Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., recently announced the signing of three new vessel contracts. Westferry, Inc. of New York has ordered an 85-foot by 20- foot by 4-foot 11-inch all-welded, aluminum, passenger commuter vessel for operation on Great South Bay, Long Island. This 375-pa
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on November 15, 1983Sedco 602, a medium-sized, semisubmersible drilling rig, was delivered recently by Promet Private Limited shipyard of Singapore. This rig is owned jointly by Sedco Inc. and Occidental Exploration and Production Company. Mrs. Sally Martin, wife of the president of Occidental, christened the rig
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on November 15, 1983The detail design and construction contract Peterson Builders Inc., of Sturgeon Bay, Wise., previously signed with the U.S. Navy has led to a succession of ARS keel layings at PBI. First the ARS-50 Safeguard in 1982; then the ARS- 51 Grasp earlier this year, and a third keel was recently lai
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on November 15, 1983Jeffboat, Incorporated of Jeffersonville, Ind., recently completed the luxury cruise vessel Newport Clipper, first of its type ever built at the Indiana yard. Constructed for Clipper Cruise Line of St. Louis at a cost of about $9 million, the vessel will operate on seven-day cruises in areas
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on November 15, 1983George K. Geiger, president of Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wise., a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., announced the signing of a contract to build a large oceangoing coal topping off barge for Lamberts Point Barge Company, Inc., a subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corpor
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on November 15, 1983Union Marine Transport Company, a shipping joint venture for transporting bulk chemicals, has been established by Union Carbide Corporation and Marine Transport Lines, Inc., it was recently announced by the two parent companies. According to James H. Rand, president of MTL, "The new firm will
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on November 1983Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. Seoul, Korea, for eight bulk carriers with an option for four more, the shipbuilding company president, Hong, In-Kie reported recently. The U.S. $140-million contract for the 45,000-dwt
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on November 1983MARCO Pacific Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of MARCO Seattle, has announced plans to build a new design tuna purse seiner. The vessel is 58 meters long, 11.5 meters wide, and 5 meters deep, with a carrying capacity of 700 metric tons of frozen tuna in 12 refrigerated brine wells. T
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on November 1983In order to provide high quality chemical transshipment service in the U.S. Gulf area, Stolt-Nielsen, Inc., the Connecticut-based parcel tanker group, contracted with Maryland Marine, Inc. for three stainless-steel barges which meet the strictest requirements to barging between their large p
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on November 1983A new shipyard company, the Boston Shipyard Corporation, has formally opened in East Boston, Mass. The company has taken over the former Bethlehem Steel property, inactive since the fall of 1982. Boston Shipyard is performing a mixture of commercial and government repair work. The company
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on November 1983A hardware/software package used to monitor ship fuel consumption and propulsion engine efficiency, was announced recently by Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS), Stamford, Conn., and Seaworthy Engine Systems, Inc. (SES) of Essex, Conn. Albert C. Song, vice president/ mini-micro systems a
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on November 1983Reportedly the first completed exhibit of the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair became a reality recently when the 1,000 passenger paddlewheel riverboat Creole Queen was christened in New Orleans. The new 190-foot by 40-foot sternwheeler which was built by Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La.,
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on November 1983Plans for the international Design- Inspection-Redundancy Symposium on November 14—16, 1983, at the Fort Magruder Inn and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Va., are nearing completion. The symposium will be sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure Committee, whose member agencies are: t
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on November 1983In the keynote speech before the annual meeting of the Warrior- Tombigbee Development Association, Joseph A. Farrell, president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., warned of two major threats to the future survival of the inland and coastal water transportation industry. Mr. Farrell
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on November 1983Plans are moving ahead quickly for the Thirty-Sixth Annual Technical Conference of the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association to be held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec on February 14, 1984. The Annual Technical Conference, always held in Montreal, is by far the l
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on November 1983Adm. Harold E. Shear, USN (ret.), Maritime Administrator, announced recently that the Maritime Administration (MarAd) and Farrell Lines, Inc., of New York have signed a cooperative agreement under which the steamship company will commercially test the feasibility of carrying oversized cargo
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on November 1983Mobil is now offering free literature describing the new Mobilgard 450 Marine Diesel Oil, a fourth generation SAE 40 lubricant created specifically to meet the requirements of high output, medium-speed trunk diesel engines operating under severe conditions. It is formulated for improved eng
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on November 1983McDermott Engineering is planning a study of fixed platforms for 1,600-foot water depths. The study will investigate the technical and financial viability of conventional platforms for environments like those found in the Gulf of Mexico. "The study will provide decisionmaking data for econom
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on November 1983Halter Marine Inc., New Orleans, La., has completed a fourboat contract with Zapata Marine Service, Inc., with the delivery of the Trafalgar Service. The new boat, like her sister ships, Falcon Service, Sable Service, and Palmar Service, is 185 feet in length, with a 40-foot beam, and 14-fo
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on November 1983Capt. James E. Grabb, USCG (ret.) has assumed the position of technical director on the staff of the American Society of Naval Engineers, in Alexandria, Va. This new position was created to provide the leadership necessary to implement the technical portion of the goals and objectives recent