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on September 15, 1977Richard W. Fetzner, president of Sun Transport, Inc., has been named president of its parent, Sun Trading & Marine Transport, Inc. (S.T.M.T.), succeeding the late Fred E. Buchanan. S.T.M.T., an operating unit of Sun Company, located at 200 West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, Pa. 19087, is engaged
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on September 15, 1977Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, a major Japanese shipbuilding company, has received a license from TBSI Limited to construct rigidly connected tug-barge units, utilizing the patents owned by Tug Barge Systems Inc., New Orleans, La., it has been announced by Edmund L. Hukill, presi
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on September 15, 1977The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) will hold its 66th Annual Convention at the Hotel Maria Isabel in Mexico City, October 23-27. According to executive vice president Richard L. Schultz, this 66th convention marks the first AAPA annual meeting to be held in a Latin American
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on September 15, 1977The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore., recently laid the keel for the first of two large deck cargo barges being built for Crowley Maritime Corporation, San Francisco, Calif. The giant roll-on/roll-off triple-deck trailer barges will be operated in the Carib
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on September 15, 1977The first export vessel of a new design of 26,500-dwt bulk carriers has been launched from the Maua yard of the leading Brazilian shipbuilder, Companhia Comercio e Navegacao (CCN). The vessel, named the Alexandres G. Tsavliris, will be owned by the Greek Tsavliris Group. She was sponsored a
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on September 15, 1977James F. Badger has rejoined Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., as vice president-market research, according to an announcement by Capt. J.W. Clark, president of the New Orleans, La.-based line. Mr. Badger served previously with Delta Line (1967 to 1974) in various managerial capacities. In his n
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on September 15, 1977Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., naval architects and engineers of San Francisco, Calif., have announced the appointment of Hubert E. Russell to the position of assistant chief engineer. Mr. Russell has been a project manager with MGA for 2% years, and will be in charge of the engineering
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on September 15, 1977The Governor of the large state of Giza in Egypt recently met with New Orleans, La., trade officials and expressed the desire for "full cooperation and a better understanding which will, hopefully, lead to fruitful negotiations in the future." Gov. Ahmed Abdel Akher was presented a certific
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on September 15, 1977Marathon Manufacturing Company, Houston, Texas, has announced that with firm construction contracts negotiated in August f o r four of its offshore jackup drilling rigs, a total of $61 million has been added to its marine construction backlog. The contracts for Marathon jackup rigs are with
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on September 15, 1977The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has announced its program of technical meetings for the 1977/ 1978 season. The schedule is as follows: September 29, 1977 — Paper: "Farrell Lines '85' Class Container Ships," by Thomas Sartor Jr., Far
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on September 15, 1977The Maritime Subsidy Board (MSB) has issued a final opinion and order in Docket No. A-117, concerning determination of the estimated f o r e i g n construction cost of two 125,000-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels. The determination was made in connection with the application
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on September 1977A Seminar on Ship Operation in Heavy Weather has been scheduled for September 19-20 at Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y. _ Recently, there has been increasing interest in technical developments toward more efficient operation of ships in heavy weather services
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on September 1977The following management changes have been announced by Gulf Trading & Transportation Company (GT&T) president Herbert I. Goodman. Edward A. Monto, formerly president, Compania Maritima Gulf S.A., an affiliate of Gulf Oil Corporation, is appointed general manager, crude oil sales-domestic mar
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on September 1977Joseph R. Burgess has been named president of Central Pacific Shipping Agency, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Marine & Supply Co., Ltd., which has opened new offices at 126 Queen Street in downtown Honolulu. The announcement by Steven Loui, executive vice president of the parent company
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on September 1977June tonnages at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa set an all-time record for a one-month period, according to figures released by port director Harley Ladd. During June, the port recorded 136,412 tons of cargo moving in and out of the port, surpassing the previous one-month record set in September
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on September 1977The Philippine Center, located at 556 F i f t h Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10036, is currently holding an exhibit that not only highlights but explains one of the Philippines' most valuable resources— the Filipino Seaman. This informational exhibit on the Filipino Seaman, sponsored by the Phili
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on September 1977Kenneth W. Gundling, vice president-marine, United States Lines, has announced three appointments to the division. Capt. Leonard H. Pert has been appointed to the position of assistant marine superintendent. Mr. Pert joined the company in 1956 as a pier superintendent in New York. He was su
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on September 1977An agreement signed by COMSAT G e n e r a l Corporation has opened the way for the start of construction this year of a shore station in Japan to operate with the Indian Ocean MARISAT satellite. The station, expected to be completed in the summer of 1978, will be the first MARISAT station to
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on September 1977The United States Navy has agreed to extend its use of each of the three s a t e l l i t e s in the MARISAT System for an additional two and one-half years, ending in 1981. Payments for service provided during the full t e rm of the agreement will total approximately $138 million if the MAR
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on September 1977At a recent press conference held at the Seamen's Church Institute in New York City by ITT Decca Marine, Inc., a major technological breakthrough in marine navigation, the new Decca "Clearscan" Radar was introduced. According to ITT Decca Marine, Inc., the U.S. distributor for The Decca Rad