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on July 15, 1980Nedbarges Sublift B.V., shipowners of Schiedam, the Netherlands, recently took delivery in Rotterdam of the semisubmersible, oceangoing deck cargo barge Sublift Atlantic. Built by B.V. Scheepswerf "De Hoop" of Lobith, the Netherlands, the vessel is 135 meters long with a beam of 31 meters a
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on July 15, 1980A recent keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, initiated construction of the second of three 37,500-dwt product carriers being built for Union Oil Company of California. E.P. Barnett, vice president, refinery and supply, Union Oil Company, and
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on July 15, 1980Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron announced recently that agreement had been reached with Britain's Redifon Telecommunications Ltd. to transfer ownership and operation of Redifon's Marine Division to the newly formed Electro-Nav International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Electro-
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on July 15, 1980Cast Containers S.A. of Fribourg, Switzerland, recently announced that the Cast Group has just ordered three new vessels to be built in Korea for its North Atlantic Container Service. This order is in addition to three container vessels contracted for in Yugoslavia earlier this year. The to
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on July 15, 1980Two identical oceanographic research ships ordered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will be constructed by Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Fort George Island, Ga., at a total cost of $5,- 900,000. Building of both vessels at the same time is expected to effect a saving of about $250,000. A
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on July 15, 1980The international problem of a decreasing world's fuel supply, as both demand and cost are increasing, will be addressed by the maritime community in a symposium, to be presented by the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers on September 22 and
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on July 15, 1980The Dixie Dredge Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., a subsidiary of Pott Industries Group, St. Louis Ship Division, Houston Natural Gas Corporation, has shipped the first of five new Dixie dredges and associated equipment to the Egyptian Dredging Company of Cairo, Egypt, it was announced by Jack
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on July 15, 1980The Fairbanks Morse Engine Division of Colt Industries has received an order for four large Colt/Pielstick marine diesel engines with auxiliary equipment from Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle. Announcement of the $8.6-million order was made by Thomas J. Bullock, div
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on July 15, 1980William F. Cleary, long-time secretarytreasurer of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., has been honored by AWO's board of directors and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) for his outstanding record with the Association. Mr. Cleary, who has been with AWO since 1952, plans to retire t
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on July 15, 1980Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently received two new contracts, won in stiff competition with other shipyards. These two new orders will expand the orderbook at the Pandan Road yard, which previously consisted of five supply vessels, four jackup-type drilling rigs, and one jackup-typ
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on July 15, 1980O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft of Lubeck, West Germany, has received an order for the construction of a hopper suction dredge with a hopper capacity of 4,000 cubic meters. The order was placed by the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Tourism, Directorate General of Seaco
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on July 15, 1980Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation demonstrated its powerful new fireboat recently at the Poydras Street wharf in New Orleans. Named Gulf Fleet No. 40, the new boat is the 100th vessel to join Gulf Fleet Marine's growing fleet of tugs, towing/supply vessels, crew and utility boats, and offshore
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on July 15, 1980Mangone Shipbuilding Company recently delivered the Western Narrows, an ultramodern, geophysical research and survey vessel with SCR (silicon-controlled r e c t i f i e r ) diesel-electric propulsion, to Western Geophysical Company of Houston. Mangone, a subsidiary of Stewart & Stevenson Se
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on July 1980Huthnance Drilling Company of Houston has signed a contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Miss., to build a Friede and Goldman design L-780 (Mod 2) jackup drilling rig. The contract is for about $18 million, exclusive of owner-furnished equip- ment. The offshore rig, scheduled for d
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on July 1980Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers was held recently at the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center Officer's Club. In the absence of chairman J.R. Malone, Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, vice chairman, called the meeting to order with the customary procedure
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on July 1980David R. Stollmeyer has been elected president of American Hawaii Cruises, San Francisco. He joined the company in 1979 as executive vice president, charged with the r e d e c o r a t i o n of the American-built Independence and returning her to service under the American flag. Rechristened
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on July 1980McDermott International, Inc., a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. of New Orleans, has been awarded a $95-million contract by Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A. (Petrobras) to lay approximately 280 miles of marine pipeline in the Campos Basin off the coast of southern Brazil. This pipeline
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on July 1980B r i t i s h Shipbuilders, London, and the Semi-Submerged Ship C o r p o r a t i o n (SSSCO), Solana Beach, Calif., have signed an agreement under which British Shipbuilders will be licensed to market and build high-speed semisubmersible vessels designed by SSSCO. Signatories were Jolyon S
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on July 1980Jack T. Day was elected the national president of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association at the annual convention, which was held recently in Bremerton, Wash. Mr. Day is the director of management engineering at the C h a r l e s t o n Naval Shipyard in Charleston, S.C. He has been e
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on July 1980Orders for six ships won by British Shipbuilders make it certain that the company's sales target for the current period will be achieved well ahead of schedule. The recent orders are worth a total of $125 million, and include two ships for the People's Republic of China. These are SD 14s, t