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- National Marine Service Offers Free Brochure Detailing Shipyards —New No. 7 Drydock In Service page: 10
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on June 1983Quick, quality service at a competitive price is the central theme of a brochure being offered by the Shipyard Division of National Marine Service, Incorporated, of St. Louis, Mo. The 12-page, full-color publication highlights the division's capabilities with detailed information on hull repa
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on June 1983Hellenic Lines Ltd. moved toward completion of its pacemaking $320-million modernization program with the recent commissioning of the M/V Hellenic Wave, the third of four Prideclass vessels being converted to fully cellularized containerships by Cantieri Navali Rinuiti, S.p.A., Palermo, Ita
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on June 1983Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wise., recently announced plans for construction of a new shipbuilding facility to be built in its existing Marinette shipyard. The facility is expected to cost over $6-million and will provide the capacity for the efficient construction of the rec
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on June 1983The design and construction of a marine heavy-lift derrick recently received the Merit Award granted by the James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation. The award was presented to George W. Adams and Ritner E. Walling. Mr. Adams is a partner of Adams & Chute, a naval architecture firm in Newtown,
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on June 1983Texaco Development Corporation, the licensing subsidiary of Texaco Inc., has granted a license to market a Texacodeveloped computer program which monitors engine operations and improves the efficiency of ships powered by closed-cycle, steam-turbine plants. Trans-International Marine Services
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on June 1983Elliott Company's Springfield, Ohio, operation, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, has been awarded a contract to supply two Elliott White Gill Thrusters to Edison Chouest Boat Rental Company in Galliano, La. The two White Gill Thrusters will produce 9,500 pounds static thrus
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on June 1983Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., yard has dedicated the keel for the reconstruction of its second ship in the U.S. Navy's Maritime Prepositioning Ship Program, it was announced recently by David Watson, yard general manager. "The keel is for the mid-body section of the Emma
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on April 1983Joseph Harrington of Ameron Protective Coatings, chairman of the National Paint & Coatings Association's Marine Coatings Committee, recently announced plans for the association's 23rd Annual Marine and Offshore Coatings Conference, scheduled for May 11-13 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Balti
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on April 1983The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association recently held its 35th Annual Technical Conference in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Closed sessions of the 95-member organization were held on the first day of the conference with special attention being paid to offs
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on April 1983The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) recently published the 1983 edition of "Rules for Building and Classing Steel Vessels." The 912-page book is applicable to steel vessels of 200 feet (61 meters) and over in length. The 1983 edition includes additional ABS requirements for steering gear
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on April 1983The first annual International Inland Waterways Conference & Trade Show is scheduled to be held August 26-28, 1983, at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville. This new conference and trade show will be of major importance to all rivermen — waterway users, port and w a t e r w a
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on April 1983A paper entitled "Air Cushion Vehicles for the Arctic" was presented recently to the Los Angeles Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers by Raymond A. Bennett, vice president for commercial development at Global Marine Development, Inc. The paper described the experi
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on April 1983"The Concept and Preliminary Design of the Polaris Submarine" was the subject of a presentation by Capt. Harry Jackson (USNret.) at a recent meeting of the Southern New England Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Captain Jackson traced the influences on and the genesis of t
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on April 1983Unitek, a locally owned Honolulu, Hawaii, firm and Sause Bros., an Oregon transportation and shipyard company, announced recently that they are constructing a $2-million floating steel drydock for ship repair to be based in Honolulu. The 200-foot by 100-foot drydock is being built at the Sa
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on April 1983Use of oceangoing self-unloading vessels in the U.S. dry-bulk trade is feasible, under certain conditions, according to a report released by the Maritime Administration. The study, "Use of Self-Unloaders in U.S. Dry-Bulk Commerce," was prepared by COR, Inc., Falls Church, Va., for Mar- Ad.
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on April 1983The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently heard a presentation on "Outfitting With Double Bulkheads" given by Warren Peterson, international marketing director of E.F. Hauserman Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Peterson demonstrated the laborsavi
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on April 1983Salzgitter • Kocks • Bulk Systems of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently received a contract to design, supply, and install a new multicommodity bulk ship loader for the port of Houston Authority, Houston, Texas. The ship loader will have box construction for the gantry and boom. The boom will complete
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on April 1983A 50 percent improvement in pipe fabrication shop productivity was achieved recently through improved work scheduling in a shipyard pilot project sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Panel SP-8 on Industrial Engineering. A one day workshop will be offered, at no
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on April 1983The Board of Directors for Houston Systems Manufacturing Company, Houston, Texas, in an executive realignment, has announced the election of the following officers: Robert B. Taylor, executive vice president; John C.H. Chan, P.E. (Ca.), CMfgE., senior vice president; Gary Bladt, vice presid
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on April 1983Additional user taxes on the barge industry would weaken the competitiveness of the barge mode and ultimately damage the whole economy, a barge industry leader said recently. He went on to warn against sacrificing the entire waterways system to "shortterm and short-sighted budgetary goals."