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on March 15, 1983A series of eight one-day workshops on the "Fundamentals of Liability Avoidance for Marine and Small Craft Management and Engineering" will be given across the nation this spring. The workshops will discuss many of the forms of liabilities that arise in each of construction, design, repair,
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on March 1983Coastal Iron Works, Inc. of Corpus Christi, Texas, recently announced the christening of its new steel floating drydock. The drydock is named Mr. Pat after one of the founders of the company, E.J. Patterson. The drydock is now in service. Mr. Pat is the largest drydock operating on the Gulf C
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on March 1983Incorporating many design concepts from their extensively proven SALM (Single Anchor Leg Mooring) systems, Sofec, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has designed and built a new CALM (Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring) marine terminal for installation in 65- foot water depth off Trengganu, West Malaysia. Dub
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on March 1983Farrell Lines expects to record a modest net profit for 1982, Richard V. Parks, president and chief operating officer said recently. This represents a $35-million operating turn-around over the previous year. Mr. Parks also predicted an operating profit for the 58 year old U.S. flag steamsh
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on March 1983The U.S. Navy has announced the award of a construction contract to Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Wash., to build the third ship of the Whidbey Island class dock landing ships. The ship, to be known as LSD-43, will be built at Lockheed's Harbor Island shipyard in
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on March 1983Allied Marine Crane of Portland, Ore., a division of Allied Systems Co., is offering a free product brochure covering its line of hydraulic marine cranes. The brochure describes the features of the 48 standard models of both double tapered box boom and telescopic boom cranes that are availa
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on March 1983Getty Trading and Transportation Company of Denver, Colo., recently submitted proposed construction plans to the Santa Barbara Resources Department and the State Lands Commission seeking permits to expand the company's crude oil marine terminal near Gaviota, Calif. The plans also include co
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on March 1983Hi Tech Boat, Inc., the new subsidiary of Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., recently entered into a contract with Fire Island Ferries of Bay Shore, L.I., N.Y., to supply a super-fast commuter boat of revolutionary new construction. The vessel, to be delivered in July, will measure
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on March 1983Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, LaGrange, 111., has released a progress report which outlines the results of a threeyear series of tests conducted by EMD on blended fuels. Contained in the report are what are believed to be among the first electron microscope photographs of catalyst
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on March 1983A new Monitor 205 marine engine fuel-efficiency system brochure is available from Avicon Corporation of Scottsdale, Ariz., illustrating and describing features which can provide fuel savings up to 30 percent for vessel owners. The four-color brochure defines user performance benefits of the
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on March 1983The battleship Iowa (BB 61) arrived at Ingalis Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Miss., recently for completion of her modernization and reactivation. The 58,000-ton ship had been in New Orleans, La., since September 1982, where Avondale Shipyards Inc. performed drydock
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on March 1983The first of five 20,000-dwt Arctic multipurpose ships contracted by V/O Sudoimport of Moscow for the Soviet Far East Shipping Company was delivered recently by Valmet Corporation, Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, about three months ahead of the contracted delivery time. The Njzhneyansk is a dry c
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on March 1983Halter Marine, Inc., of New Orleans, La., and Maritime Engineering A.S., of Oslo, Norway, have signed an agreement granting Halter exclusive rights in the U.S. to build all of the ME series vessels in excess of 201 feet. Halter also has the license on a nonexclusive basis worldwide. Maritim
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on March 1983Thomas J. Feehan, president of Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston, Texas, announced the election recently of three vice presidents in the company's Marine Operations Group. Brown & Root, a Halliburton company, is one of the world's largest engineering-construction companies. Promoted to vice pre
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on March 1983The Saudi Ports Authority recently awarded M.A.N, in Nuremburg, West Germany, as general contractor, an order for three floating cranes with a lifting capacity of 200-tons each. The pontoons are being constructed by M.A.N.-GHH Dock and Shipbuilding Company. They measure: length 60 meters,
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on March 1983Complete Abrasive Blasting Systems, Inc. (CAB) of Kent, Wash., recently announced that the first portable manual air blast application of a skid-mounted steel grit recovery system f or field use has been delivered and is in service successfully. The equipment is being used for the blasting
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on March 1983A new four-color brochure describing Raytheon Marine Company's compact, low-cost RAYPATH Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA) is available. Unveiled recently at a Raytheon Worldwide High Seas Distributors' Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the new RAYPATH ARPA is low-cost, yet provides man
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on March 1983Swan Island Shipyard, Inc., a minority-owned business enterprise conceived through privately funded studies arranged by Portland City Commissioner Charles Jordan and some members of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, has completed its formal corporate organization. The announcement was made
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on March 1983Capt. Charles M. Lynch, president of Arco Marine, Inc. in Los Angeles, Calif., recently was elected chairman of the board of directors of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS) for 1983. He succeeds J.J. Ervin, president of Trinidad Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa., following the
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on March 1983Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, LaGrange, 111., recently introduced a new Series 645 engine. This engine will provide workboat owners a 3 percent reduction in fuel consumption over previous models. The improvements in this engine model are the latest in a series which has seen a