Medium 1981 Articles
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on February 1981Southern Natural Resources, Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., has completed the purchase of Interstate and Ocean Transport Company of Philadelphia. Interstate and its affiliates own and operate the largest independent fleet of coastal tank barges and tugs in the United States. Henry C. Goodrich, ch
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on January 15, 1981A new, unique mooring system that will keep a supply vessel permanently and safely moored to an oil rig at a pre-determined distance even in the worst sea conditions encountered in the North Sea is being developed in Scotland. A model of the Scomagg Hydraulics Ltd. system is shown above being
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on January 15, 1981The Virginia Port Authority has issued $10.3 million in Newport News Terminal Revenue Bonds of 1980. The monies will be utilized to refinance the existing indebtedness on Piers B and C and to the City of Newport News, and to make several improvements to the terminal. A portion of the $10.3-
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on January 15, 1981Three senior management personnel at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., have been named vice presidents of the company. Leonard Erb, president of Ingalls and senior vice president of Litton Industries, has announced the promotion of Edwin B. Robbins, David B. Wright and Wayne D. Sti
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on January 15, 1981Helitron A / S of Aalesund, Norway, has developed a significant improvement to its well established POSCON range of integrated ship maneuvering systems, a new option called CORC (for Center-of-Rotation Control). POSCON maneuvering systems provide simpler means of ship handling at zero or lo
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on January 15, 1981The Jacksonville Port Authority has budgeted nearly $34 million for capital improvement projects in the coming year, according to John R. Mackroth, Jacksonville Port Authority managing director. The planned expenditures are almost equally divided between the Marine and Aviation Divisions. H
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on January 15, 1981Belcher Towing Company will add a 3,000-horsepower ship docking tug to its fleet in the Port of Miami, vice president James Whitehouse has announced. To be named the Belcher-Miami, the new tug is scheduled to go into service in Miami harbor by the fall of 1981. Belcher Towing, a subsidiary
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on January 15, 1981Sun Transport, Inc. and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) recently signed a contract for MSC's five-year charter of Sun Transport's 34,400-dwt p r o d u ct tanker New York Sun (See December 1, 1980 issue MR /EN, page 28). The contract for MSC's charter of the newly constructed tanker in th
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on January 15, 1981The size of c r e w b o a t s has lengthened considerably as the search for oil and gas moves farther offshore and into rougher waters. Halter Marine's standard long-deck, 101-foot crewboats like the Capela and Atalaia are distinctive examples of the new generation of large crewboats for the
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on January 15, 1981Dravo Corporation of Pittsburgh announced recently that negotiations are underway to acquire the Ryan-Walsh group of companies headquartered in Mobile, Ala. The acquisition, which is subject to approval by directors of both organizations, will be for an undisclosed number of shares of Dravo
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on January 15, 1981The biggest tug with Voith Schneider propulsion units to be built in the United States has been designed by the Jacksonville, Fla., firm of Norman N. De- Jong and Associates, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers. Destined for ship-handling duties in the Panama Canal, the 105- foot "W
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on January 15, 1981Temple Drilling Company and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont shipyard recently commissioned a 150-foot water depth mobile offshore drilling rig for Tidelands Limited II. The rig was christened the Comanche by its sponsor, Mrs. Janis Huitt, wife of Dr. J.L. Huitt, senior vice president,
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on January 15, 1981The tank barge Hannah 6301 was launched recently at Bay Shipbuilding Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The launching was witnessed by a group of Hannah Marine Corporation personnel and customers and Bay Ship officials. The vessel was christened by Hannah's appointed sponsor for the occasion,
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on January 15, 1981Tracor Marine, Inc., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., subsidiary of Tracor, Inc., has been awarded a fixed-price contract from Rockwell International to operate the vessel Ocean Energy Converter in support of the Department of Energy's Ocean Thermal Energv Conversion (OTEC) Program. The contract is
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on January 15, 1981American President Lines (APL) and the Port of Los Angeles recently announced agreement to jointly develop a multimilliondollar container terminal at Los Angeles, which, when completed, will be the largest on the U.S. West Coast. The 20-year revenuesharing agreement was signed by Dorman L. Co
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on January 15, 1981Richard E. Bowe, chairman of the board of directors of Ellicott Machine C o r p o r a t i o n , has announced the election of Martin W. Goldsborough as president of Ellicott Machine Corporation Interpilothouse national and E l l i c o t t Machine Corporation-Dredge Division, and Thomas K. Ga
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on January 15, 1981Although the recent commismissioning of the guided-missile frigate HMAS Adelaide appeared ordinary and publicity-shy at Todd Pacific Shipyards, it was a historic event. First, it was learned Her Majesty's Australian Ship Adelaide is considered the newest and first Australian Navy ship built
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on January 15, 1981Richard M. Currence, president of Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, has announced the delivery of two new 190-foot by 40-foot by 14- foot towing/supply vessels. The Gulf Fleet No. 42 and Gulf Fleet No. 43 (shown above) are sister vessels and are powered by two GM Electro-Motive Division 16- 64
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on January 15, 1981The Australian Department of Transport has improved its oil-spill response capability with the purchase of four Class I re- covery vessels from MARCO Seattle. The MARCO skimmers are the first self-propelled Filterbelt® skimmers ordered by Australia, and are part of a government program to imp
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on January 15, 1981The Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its fall 1980 meeting at Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada. The meeting introduced the new officers: Les Coward, CCS Marine Associates, Ltd. of Vancouver, chairman; Bruce H. Adee, Univers