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on August 1983Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La., recently delivered the second of a two-tug boat order, the 117- foot Ben Candies to Otto Candies Inc. of Des Allemandes, La. The vessel measures 117 feet long, by 34 feet wide, and is 17 feet deep. The tug is powered by two EMD-16-645-E6 main diesel eng
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- Moss Point Marine Delivers Nicor Clipper- Largest Offshore Tug/Supply Vessel Built In The U.S. page: 22
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on August 1983When Moss Point Marine of Escatawpa, Mississippi, delivered the Nicor Clipper to her owners recently, the tug/supply/container deck vessel made the record book. Delivered to new owner Nicor Marine Inc., of New Orleans, the Nicor Clipper measures an astounding 254 feet in length—believed to
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on August 1983Dignitaries from the international and national welding and business communities recently gathered in Houston, Texas, for the commissioning ceremony of Oerlikon Welding Industries's new $7-million welding consumables manufacturing facility. Oerlikon Welding Industries (OWI), an Oerlikon-Buehr
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on August 1983Recent accomplishments by the industrial engineering staff and Sheetmetal Department at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) were viewed by Panel SP-8 of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at the spring industrial engineering meeting held recently in San Diego, Cal
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on August 1983Dravo Corporation, proud of the firm's marine capabilities, recently issued a 66-page, hard-cover, ring-bound brochure describing the company's facilities and its standard towboat and barge designs. This attractive book contains many color photographs and is divided into six sections coverin
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on July 15, 1983The first phase of construction of a modern maintenance and repair shipyard for the Alaska State Ferries is presently underway in Ketchikan, in southeast Alaska. The yard will have facilities required to perform annual maintenance and repair work on the fleet of nine Alaska Marine Highway ferr
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on July 15, 1983Joseph D. Deal Jr., president of Tracor Marine, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has announced the addition of two new members to his management staff at the Port Everglades facility. Hermann H. Haferkamp has been named general manager of the Shipyard Division, and John D. Klockow is now director
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on July 15, 1983Construction of Atlantic Container Line's (ACL) "Leaderships" has progressed past the first major milestone, according to Otto I.M. Porton, president, ACL-USA. Shipyards in Sweden, the U.K., and France began building five RO/RO-containerships early this year. Mr. Porton said the main sections
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on July 15, 1983Service Machine Group, Inc., a Terramar company headquartered in Morgan City, La. in cooperation with Design Associates, Inc., of New Orleans, has developed plans to produce a 205-foot diving support vessel (the DSV 205). Service Machine president Tom Hensley and Mat Kawasaki of Design Asso
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on July 15, 1983The Eighth Congress of the Pan- American Institute of Naval Engineering (IPEN) will be held in Washington, D.C. (Hyatt Regency Hotel, Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia), September 11-17, 1983. In announcing plans for the meeting, Rear Admiral James W. Lisanby, U.S. Navy, president of the we
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- Dubai Dry Dock Begins Operations page: 40
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on July 15, 1983A & P Appledore International Limited has been appointed as managers for The Dubai Dry Dock Company, one of the world's largest ship repair complexes. Dubai Dry Dock received many inquiries during the weeks preceding the opening of the yard, last month. Although there is strong worldwide c
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on July 15, 1983Dravo Wellman Company, a unit of Dravo Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pa., which provides bulk materials-handling equipment, systems and engineering, has received a contract for an extensive crane rehabilitation project at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. Awarded to Dravo Wellman by
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on June 1983Designers & Planners, Inc. of Washington, D.C., recently announced the appointment of Michael R. Yriondo as director of special projects and Richard S. Carleton as director of marine engineering. The announcements were made by Ferd Serim, president of the firm of naval architects and marine
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on June 1983Racor Industries of Modesto, Calif., has introduced a new highperformance fuel filter / water separator that can be installed as standard equipment, yet accommodates a wide variety of engine applications and customer preferences. Literature is available describing the separator. The new Rac
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on June 1983George E. Ponton has been appointed Marine Sales Manager for the IMO Pump Division, Monroe, N.C., of Transamerica Delaval Inc., it was announced recently by Christopher W. Smith, marketing manager. Mr. Ponton comes to IMO Pump Division from Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc., where he was m
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- Major Coal Export Terminal Opens page: 108
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on June 1983The most modern and efficient coal export terminal in the world was officially opened recently at a site 40 miles south of New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish. The d e d i c a t i o n c e r e m o n i es marked completion of the $63- million expansion of International Marine Terminals, which e
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on June 1983Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., of Mobile, Ala., recently delivered three, 192-foot supply vessels to State Boat Corporation of Houston, Texas. The sisterships are named the M/V State Glory, M/V State Chief, and the M/V State Belle. Built to ABS classification and U.S. Coast Guard certifi
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on June 1983John F. Sullivan Jr., whose leadership over the past eight years helped establish Bath Iron Works (BIW) as one of the nation's premier shipbuilders, recently announced his decision to retire as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of BIW and vice president of the parent corpora
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on June 1983Canadian Pacific, one of the world's largest merchant shipping companies, has ordered Atlas radar systems worth $1.2m from Krupp Atlas-Elektronik for installation on 23 ships of its worldwide fleet of cargo vessels, medium-size tankers, and VLCCs. Additional dual-systems have also been spec
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- AMSHIP & Navidyne Demonstrate First Successful Transfer Of Data On Great Lakes Via Satellite page: 10
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on June 1983A recent series of tests conducted aboard a U.S. Great Lakes bulk carrier may help to hasten the widespread acceptance of satellite communications on the Great Lakes. The event was the first successful demonstration of computer data transfer between ship and shore via satellite on the Great L