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on February 15, 1980The Boston office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, the engineering, architectural, and planning firm, is currently at work on a project that will transform the west end of the Massachusetts Port Authority's Castle Island Terminal into a modern container terminal. This is a first step in significantl
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on February 15, 1980Robert L. Wendt has been named president of the Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation. Mr. Wendt will succeed Salvatore A. Conigliaro as head of the Great Neck, N.Y.-based division. Mr. Conigliaro will take a leave of absence for six months, and will return to the newly created post of chai
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on February 15, 1980Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, held christening ceremonies recently for the LASH vessel S/S Benjamin Harrison, the first of two LASH vessels currently being built for Waterman Steamship Corporation. Named for the distinguished member of the Co
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on February 1980Substantial equipment additions consisting of a new 3,500-ton drydock and large steel fabrication shop are now in use at National Marine Service's Hartford, 111., shipyard, D.A. Wright, president of the company, has announced. "The new facilities complement each other and permit the shipyard
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on February 1980The Acadian Marine group of companies based in New Orleans, La., has announced the signing of contracts valued at $18 million and its construction plans f o r several 350-foot "Clipper-Class" feeder containerships. The Acadian Group recently inked contracts for the charter of 10 of its ship
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on February 1980The De Laval Separator Company, well-known in the marine industry, will change its name to Alfa-Laval, Inc., and simultaneously move its corporate and industrial, food and dairy marketing headquarters to Ft. Lee, N.J., March 1, 1980. The name change, according to Kees Sonius, president, emp
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on February 1980The ARCO Alaska, a 188,500- dwt San Diego-class tanker built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., was recently received by Arch Tankers, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company. John M. Murphv, vice president for NASSCO Corporate Rela
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on February 1980The largest shiplift in the world recently began operations at the Tandanor, S.A., shipyard, Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Syncrolift® shiplift platform is 185 meters long by 32 meters wide (about 607 feet by 105 feet), and has a lifting capacity of about 40,000 dwt. Complete
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on February 1980Sun Transport, Inc., a division of Sun International, Inc., has contracted with Mangone Shipbuilding Company for a 245-foot 6-inch ( 7 4 - m e t e r s ) vessel designed s p e c i f i c a l l y as a Twin Screw Motor Tank Barge to work in Sun's Northeast coastal operations. The new vessel is t
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on February 1980The annual m e e t i n g of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at Schrafft's Restaurant in the Quality Inn Colony 7 to elect officers for 1979-80 and to hear the paper entitled "Planning and Scheduling Hull Production Operations." The aut
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on February 1980MTU of North America, Inc., a subsidiary of MTU Friedrichshafen West Germany, and distributor of high-performance diesel engines, officially opened its corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas, recently with a second facility in Morgan City, La. MTU of North America is an extension of MTU's
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on February 1980Am-Can Transportation, Inc. recently announced the introduction of a new tug-barge service to Great Lakes shippers. With the tug-barge, Am-Can will provide service to both line haul and to side port shippers, concentrating on fast, reliable service to small shippers presently operating from re
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on February 1980Valmet Shipbuilding of Finland recentlydelivered the second unit of its winter trawler series intended to improve the catches in the northern Baltic during the midwinter season. The M S Julanta (shown above) built for Henry, Ronald, Jorgen and Nils Holmstrom of Lovisa, Finland, follows the M/S
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on February 1980Rising fuel costs, highway congestion and the growth of trailer traffic across the Niagara River border have created an opening for trans-lake ferry service between Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Rochester, N.Y., according to a recent study commissioned by the U.S. Maritime Administration (M
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on February 1980The second "Inter Island Shipping" conference and exhibition will be held in Manila, Philippines, March 11-14, 1980, following its successful launch in Singapore as part of "Marintec Asia 79" in June 1979. The "Inter Island Shipping" series is a planned five-year United Nations ESCAP program t
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on February 1980Crescent Towing & Salvage Co., Inc., recently announced establishment of an Alabama Division to provide complete harbor towing services for the Port of Mobile. James E. Smith, president of the New Orleans, La.-based firm, said two of his company's newest tugs, the 2,400-hp Marion Smith and th
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on February 1980The number of so-called remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in use today has increased 1,000 percent in the past five years, according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today about 180 ROVs are in use or being built around the world, mainly for the oil
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on February 1980A.C. Brown, senior vice president of J.J. Henry Co., Inc., naval architects and marine engineers, recently announced the following p r o m o t i o n s in the J.J. Henry Company's Moorestown, N.J., office. Robert B. McFadden has been appointed chief engineer and director of the Mechanical Des
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on January 15, 1980New York State Commissioner of T r a n s p o r t a t i o n William C. Hennessy, New York City Commissioner of Ports and Terminals Susan Heilbron, and Port Authority Executive Director Peter C. Goldmark Jr. recently signed the final agreement for the $20- million Red Hook Container Terminal
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on January 15, 1980The Ship Structure Committee has available copies of three new reports. SSC-288, "The Effects of Varying Ship Hull Proportions and Hull Materials on Hull Flexibility, Bending and Vibratory Stresses," is an analytical study which considers four typical vessels—an ore carrier, a tanker, a con