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on November 1991Sail Adventures in Learning (S.A.I.L.), Inc., of Bath, Maine, has announced that Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) of Michigan has become the largest in-kind sponsor of its 215-foot tall ship Discovery by donating the vessel's auxiliary propulsion. DDC will provide a 12V- 149 TI diesel engine
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on November 1991Loan guarantees totaling nearly $82 million were approved by Maritime Administrator Warren Leback for six financing and refinancing applications under the agency's Title XI program. With only one guarantee approved since 1987, the program had been virtually dormant. Title XI was nearly put
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on November 1991Many people, in shipyards and the Navy alike, consider the ship's Halon fire-control system to be among the most critical piping systems on any vessel. Important because in case of a ship fire, the survivability of everything onboard will ultimately depend on how well the CO canisters actuat
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on November 1991The USNS Effective (T-AGOS- 21) was recently christened at McDermott Shipyard in Amelia, La. The Honorable Craig S. King, General Counsel of the Navy was the principal speaker at the ceremony, and his wife, Janet, was the ship's sponsor. Richard S. Haynes, Counsel for the Military Sealift Co
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on November 1991Owners and operators of tank vessels calling at U.S. ports are in a predicament. The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and proposed Coast Guard regulations require tank vessel owners and operators to prepare and submit oil spill response plans for each vessel. Besides identifying a qualified individ
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on November 1991Ecomarine USA and OMI Petrolink Corp. have formed a joint venture, Ecomarine Gulf, to provide advanced technology and services for marine pollution control, oil spill response, and marine monitoring and mapping in the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Based in Houston, Texas, Ecomarine G
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on November 1991Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc., Victoria division, recently delivered two new Type "500" SAR cutters to the Canadian Coast Guard. The vessels—CCGS Gordon Reid and John Jacobson—bear the names of two noted British Columbia native Indians, both of whom had strong ties to the maritime communi
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on November 1991The U.S. Justice Department has eased its opposition to a bill in Congress that would ban gaming on foreign-flag cruises to nowhere and, for the first time, permit casinos on U.S.-flag cruise ships. Introduced by Representative Gene Taylor of Mississippi, the bill would annul the U.S. Gambli
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on November 1991Aker a.s. and Peter Kiewit Sons, Inc., recently announced their agreement to form Aker Gulf Marine, a Texas partnership. Aker Gulf Marine will offer fabrication and construction services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Aker will own 51 percent and Kiewit 49 percent of the new company.
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on November 1991A vice president of the Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) recently told the 13th World Petroleum Congress that his organization plans to be fully operational within the next 18 months. At a session devoted to environment and health matters, G. Stephen Duca described the mission and s
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on November 1991Regulations mandated by Congress in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to minimize the impact of oil spills include the requirements that all domestic and foreign tanker-type vessels operating in U.S. waters have onboard oil-spill-removal equipment as well as an oil-spill-response plan. In an adv
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on November 1991The unveiling of the first monument honoring American merchant seamen who perished in all wars as well as in peacetime was held on October 9,1991, at a waterfront ceremony in lower Manhattan. More than 1,000 people came to the dedication for the American Merchant Mariners' Memorial, a steel
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on November 1991World steel output fell by 2 percent in 1990 and is expected to contract again in 1991 as the steel industries of Europe and the USA are hit by recession and economic restructuring. However, production is buoyant in Japan and other major Asian steel centers such as South Korea and Taiwan, th
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on November 1991For the Navy to accommodate future carrier aircraft designs and combat increasingly potent threats to the carrier battle group, it must do one thing: build bigger aircraft carriers. Specifically, a "stretched" version of the current Nimitz class carrier that would be between 125 feet to 400
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on May 1991In a deal worth up to $500 million and which would create the world's largest support vessel fleet, Tidewater is negotiating the acquisition of Zapata Gulf Marine. An agreement between the two U.S. groups would combine the 304 vessels of Zapata with the 303-vessel fleet of Tidewater. Tidewat
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on May 1991An industrial team lead by Litton has successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Navy for the first time the application of advanced fiberoptic technology to an all-optical shipboard sonar system. The development was accomplished under the sponsorship of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Nava
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on May 1991The second in a series of four Inmarsat-2 satellites was successfully launched recently by a McDonnell Douglas Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Inmarsat-2 (F2) will occupy a permanent orbital slot at 15.5 degrees west longitude over the Atlantic Ocean Region-East (AOR-E), replacing t
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on May 1991Royal Schelde of Vissingen, the Netherlands, will be exhibiting their versatility in shipbuilding this year at the Cruise & Ferry'91 exhibition in London, England, May 29-31, as well as at Nor-Shipping '91 in Trondheim, Norway, June 11-14, by showing models of two ships out of their Seaswift
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on May 1991The David Taylor Research Center (DTRC) Mobile Support Systems Program Office is soliciting white papers for cargo handling systems and system components for a fast sealift ship that is both militarily useful and commercially viable. This announcement is timed to impact a draft mid-term opti
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on May 1991Burmeister & Wain Shipyard (B&W), Copenhagen, Denmark, recently delivered the Panamax bulk carrier Solidarnosc (BCT70), first vessel in a series of six vessels for the Polish Steamship Company. A second BCT70-type bulk carrier for the Polish Steamship Company, the Armia Krajowa, will be deli