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on January 15, 1984T C S Industrial Company of St. Paul, Minn., a subsidiary of Twin City Shipyard, Inc., has been named a stocking distributor for Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. In announcing the appointment, NABRICO vice president T. Ray Jackson said T C S will stock a
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on January 15, 1984Navidyne Corporation of Newport News, Va., recently introduced the first in a new generation of marine satellite communications equipment, the ESZ-10000. The new unit is a Standard A, Class 1 INMARSAT ship earth station. It provides instant, clear telephone, telex, and data links between sh
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on January 15, 1984Daewoo shipyard of Seoul, Korea, reported recently that financing arrangements for construction of 12 containerships for U.S. Lines have been completed. In-Kie Hong, president of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd., signed a co-financing agreement with Thomas Charters, vice presiden
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on January 15, 1984Penske GM Power, Inc. of Lodi, N.J., was host recently to some 25 New York area marine operating and engineering personnel at a Whitehall Club luncheon. Company president Eugene Enlow told guests that Penske has the desire and ability to provide service support for the marine industry. His
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on January 15, 1984A major East Coast ship overhaul and repair center, constructed at a cost of $46.7 million, was opened recently in Portland, Maine. The facility, jointly owned by the City of Portland and the State of Maine, will be operated by Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW), which has maintained a shipy
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on January 15, 1984Bethlehem Steel Corpration recently signed a long-term licensing agreement for highly advanced offshore oil production technology—tension moored platforms (TMP) with Fluor Engineers, Inc. The announcement was issued jointly by David H. Klinges, vice president of Bethlehem's marine construct
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on January 1984Vital to the nation's defense capability is the improvement of repair and maintenance procedures and the modernization of facilities. When the Naval Sea Systems Command called for improvement of the crane system on its medium auxiliary floating drydocks, Crane Con Products of Seattle responded
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on January 1984Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) has been notified by the Naval Sea System Command that it is being awarded one of two Phase II minesweeper hunter (MSH) design contracts. As a previous participant in the MSH Phase I preliminary design, MMC was one of four shipbuilders competing for the Ph
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on December 15, 1983The novel Hagglunds "Excentermounted" cranes fitted recently at Cityvarvet, Gothenburg, to the cargoship Skagern add considerable extra interest to this new vessel. The two cranes, each of 25-ton capacity are of Hagglunds' standard electro-hydraulic type, but mounted on platforms of a new t
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on December 15, 1983The country's newest attack submarine, the Buffalo (SSN-715), was delivered to the U.S. Navy recently by Newport News Shipbuilding. Her keel was laid January 25, 1980 and she was launched May 8, 1982. She was christened by Mrs. Joanne Kemp, wife of New York Congressman Jack Kemp, who was pr
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on December 15, 1983A unique cooperation agreement that covers the building and marketing of the highly successful Friendship type multi-purpose cargo vessel has been signed between two of the world's leading shipbuilding yards. The agreement, signed between Harland and Wolff Limited and Algoship International
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on December 15, 1983The first of four U.S. Navy Rescue/ Salvage ships under construction at Peterson Builders, Inc. in Sturgeon Bay, Wise., was launched recently during formal Navy ceremonies. The 225-foot, steel-hulled ARS-50 was christened Safeguard, a name synonymous with the function of a vessel of her type
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on December 15, 1983The Oliver Hazard Perry Class (FFG-7) frigate program reached a milestone recently with the delivery of the USS De Wert (FFG-45) at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She is the 36th ship of the currently approved program of 54 FFGs. Of this total, 50 are for the U.S. Navy and four are for the R
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on December 15, 1983Navy contract options for almost $200 million have been exercised for the conversion of the last four of eight high-speed containerships into roll-on/roll-ofF units. They will be used by the Military Sealift Command to provide support to rapid deployment forces around the world. The four sh
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on December 15, 1983The four refrigerated cargo ships ordered from the Belfast shipyard Harland & Wolff by British reefer specialist Blue Star Line are to be fitted with MacGregor-Navire (MGN) cargo access equipment. Confirmation that the Northern Irish yard had, as long expected, secured the Blue Star order ca
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on December 15, 1983Texas Instruments has developed a platinum-clad niobium material that has been demonstrated to provide excellent protection for steel structures exposed to corrosive conditions such as underwater (both sea and fresh water) or underground environments. The material works in an impressed curr
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on December 15, 1983The Blackburn Cove was delivered recently to J. Tenwick & Co. Pty., Ltd., of Balmain East, NSW, by Carrington Slipways' Tomago, Newcastle, NSW (Australia) yard. The tug is fitted with a Niigata developed Z-Peller propulsion system. The Niigata Z-Peller drive consists basically of an engine,
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on December 15, 1983A major modernization and expansion of ship repair facilities at the Newfoundland Dockyard in St. John's was officially opened recently by Premier Brian Peckford. Begun in late 1981, the project was completed slightly ahead of schedule. The upgraded facilities will enable the yard, which is
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on December 15, 1983McDermott Shipyards has been awarded a contract by Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco to build a unique, 350-foot self-unloading container/tank barge. It will be used for Matson's inter-island cargo services in the Hawaiian Islands, and will be named Haleakala for the famous mountai
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on December 15, 1983Philadelphia Gear Corporation, King of Prussia, Pa., recently concluded a licensing agreement with Ishikawajima Ship and Chemical Plant Company, Ltd. (ISC), a subsidiary of IHI, Tokyo. This agreement, reversing the normal flow of technology out of the U.S., affords Philadelphia Gear the opport