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on August 15, 1981A new $3.4-million, 214-foot petroleum products barge for operating in Arctic waters was l a u n c h e d r e c e n t l y by Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash., for The Standard Oil Company of Ohio (Sohio). Gini Savage, wife of Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company president, Michael Savage, wa
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on August 15, 1981New facilities at the Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) A. I. Myhr Plant, Ashland City, Tenn., were officially dedicated recently. Bill Sanders, the senior employee at the plant, cut the large ribbon linking two cranes to open the company's new fabrication building. AI Zang, president of N
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on August 15, 1981Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered two 75-foot by 28-foot by 12.5- foot steel coastal tugboats to Apex Oil Company of St. Louis, Mo. The tugboats, the Sioux, and the Mava (shown above), are powered by twin Detroit Diesel 16V-149TA engines rated at 2,200 hp. Th
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on August 15, 1981Throngs of spectators came to the Jeffboat, Incorporated, Jeffersonville, Ind., shipyard recently to witness the dual christening and launching ceremonies of the motor vessel Jeffboat, a 6,000- horsepower vessel named to honor the company's accomplishment as an industry leader over the past
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on August 15, 1981The Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., has awarded Tracor, Inc. an $8.3-million fouryear contract for technical and engineering support for the FFG- 7 Class Guided Missile Frigate Acquisition Program. William C. Moyer, Ph.D., group vice president for Tracor
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on August 15, 1981Chromalloy American Corporation, St. Louis, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Flowers Marine Group, Inc., a privately held barge company, from its founder, J. Russell Flowers, for approximately $15 million. Approximately 70 percent of the purchase price was paid with 400,00
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on August 15, 1981James A. Cole Jr., vice president in charge of Texaco Inc.'s Marine Department, has announced the following appointments : Robert 0. Sanders, manager- chartering, succeeding Robert G. Gingrow who elected to take early retirement on June 1, 1981, after 37 years of service; James F. Gaffney,
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on August 15, 1981H a l i f a x I n d u s t r i e s Limited, Nova Scotia, has signed its largest ever ship repair contract. The contract, worth over Canadian $1.5 million, is with Imperial Oil Ltd. for the modernization and repair of the 6,566- deadweight-ton tanker Imperial Quebec. The vessel, with a length
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on August 15, 1981A $70.8-million contract for the conversion of four Moore McCormack Lines, Inc., general cargo ships into self-sustaining cargo/ container vessels has been approved by the U.S. Maritime Administration. The reconstruction work, to be financed in part under the Mar Ad construction-differential
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on August 15, 1981Edward E. Paden, president of Levingston Industries, Inc., announced the election recently of Jesse M. Calhoon, Jim I. Graves, Ned J. Marandino, and Rear Adm. Charles N. Payne, USN (ret.) to the board of directors of Levingston Industries, Inc., a Texas-based corporation. Major operating unit
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on August 15, 1981A ring-bound, hard-cover catalog containing 130 removable pages and data sheets is being offered by the Skagit Corporation. Skagit Division of Continental Emsco Company, Sedro-Woolley, Wash., specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of a wide variety of heavy-duty equipment t
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on August 15, 1981Foss Launch & Tug Co., Seattle, Wash., announced it has received approval from the Dillingham Corporation, its parent company, to purchase three new, revolutionary Tractor Tugs, with an option for a fourth, as additions to its West Coast fleet. The new tugs will incorporate the Voith Schnei
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on August 15, 1981A program to test the practicality of operating diesel engines on fuel derived from coal reached a landmark recently with the operation of a Transamerica Delaval test engine on pure coal liquid at full load. Announcement of the test was made by Clinton S. Mathews, general manager of the Eng
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on August 15, 1981Kenneth Wood has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Halifax Industries Limited of Nova Scotia. He succeeds William J. Riley, who is leaving Halifax to become "more involved in offshore and other developmental activities." Mr. Wood, who has been a director of Halifax Ind
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on August 15, 1981Acquisition of the operatingassets of Nilo Barge Line from the Olin Corp. by Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, was announced recently by Robert Dickey III, Dravo's chairman and president. Included in the purchase are 180 dry cargo barges, four towboats, a trans-Gulf service, and related supporting a
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on August 15, 1981Dedication ceremonies for the t u g b o a t " B e l c h e r - P o r t Everglades" and her mate, Belcher Barge #102, were held recently at Port Everglades (Fla.) Pier Nineteen. The Belcher-Port Everglades, the largest oceangoing tugboat ever built in this country, was constructed for Belcher
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on August 15, 1981John D. West, president of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., and chief executive officer of Bay Shipbuilding Corp., has announced that George K. Geiger has succeeded Arthur J. Zuehlke as president of Bay Shipbuilding Corp. Bay Shipbuilding Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company,
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on August 1981Swiftships, Inc., one of the world's largest shipbuilders, announced plans to construct a 20- acre repair facility in Freeport, Texas. When the facility begins initial operation on August 15, it will become the fourth shipyard owned and operated by the Morgan City, La.-based company. The C
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on August 1981The Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation has received a $51.1- million contract to implement the first phase of the combat system development and integration for three Spanish Navy guided-missile frigates and one aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded to Sperry by the U.S. Naval Sea Sys
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on August 1981Houston Offshore International, Inc., Houston, Texas, has taken delivery on two Sabine-class rigs and has ordered the Sabine V, president Jerry E. Chiles announced recently. The new rig will be built at Bethlehem Steel's Singapore shipyard and is scheduled for delivery in September 1982. It