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on August 15, 1985Aluminum Boats, Inc., of Crown Point, La., recently delivered an 85- foot crew/utility boat, Abeer Nine (shown above), to the Barberlines Arabian Navigation & Shipping Company, Ltd. of Saudi Arabia. She is now serving offshore rigs and platforms in the Arabian Gulf from the Port of Dammam.
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on August 15, 1985—Literature Available Odin Electronics, Huntsville, Texas, recently announced a new electronic navigation system. The NCD-39 is a high-quality computer that stores charts digitally in nonvolatile computer memory, then presents them at any scale on a bright monochrome CRT display. Loran or s
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on August 15, 1985—Literature Available Total Transportation Systems, Inc. of Newport News, Va., recently announced the acquisition of Kenmark Industries of Santa Barbara, Calif. Kenmark will become a separate operating subsidiary of TTS, and will continue in its role as a leader in the design and manufacture
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on August 15, 1985As part of its $13.2-billion merger with Gulf Corporation, Chevron Corporation has announced the consolidation of the Gulf and Chevron marine transportation organizations. Gulf's fleet of 11 tankers will be consolidated with Chevron's for a merged fleet of 43 operating vessels with a total c
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on August 15, 1985line of maintenance-reducing stuffing boxes is now available from The Johnson Rubber Company's Duramax Marine Division. In addition to making packing changes easier, several of the company's, heavy duty stuffing boxes are specifically designed to cut the need for drydocking. Three of the pop
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on August 15, 1985C. Raymond Hunt Associates, designers of Boston, and Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation of Somerset, Mass., have collaborated on a fast, twin-diesel, all-aluminum pilot boat for the Sandy Hook Pilots. The construction contract was awarded to Gladding-Hearn in December 1984, and deliver
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on August 15, 1985A versatile manifold system for linking floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessels with their mooring turrets in offshore oil fields, which allows the vessels to weathervane continually without interrupting production, has been developed by the Marine Offshore Division of Mo
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on August 15, 1985After reviewing the results of a year-long Gulf Coast strategic study, the Secretary of Defense has announced homeporting decisions affecting nine Gulf Coast cities. The plan, to be implemented in the late 1980s and early 90s, involves some 29 ships and approximately 15,000 personnel. The c
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on August 15, 1985Ralph Helm, president of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., Manitowoc, Wise., has announced that six key people have joined the company's recently formed subsidiary, Manitex Inc. of McAllen, Texas. All six have had extensive experience and are well known in the offshore market. Fred Oprendek, mar
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on August 15, 1985—Free Literature Available Mark Controls Corporation's Center Line Series SD butterfly control valve line has been expanded to include the SDT, a heavy duty, 300-psi rated valve. The SDT, as well as the other series SD butterfly control valves, have been designed for low-flow-rate-control appl
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on August 15, 1985—Literature Available Hayward Industrial Products, Inc., Elizabeth, N.J., recently added a 3-inch and 4-inch duplex plastic basket strainer to their product line. The strainers are made of polyvinyl chloride and contain no metal, and therefore are corrosionresistant. They will handle flow rate
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on August 15, 1985United Technologies' Carrier Transicold Division recently donated two water source heat pump systems to The Cousteau Society (Fondation Cousteau) to meet the cabin environmental needs of Jacques Cousteau's new experimental windship, the Alcyone. The two water source heat pump systems will prov
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on August 15, 1985ASEA Hagglunds, Inc. is offering a free, 32-page full-color booklet on their extensive range of cargo cranes. The handsomely soft-covered publication is oversized and features several large, outstanding fullcolor photographs of some of Hagglunds' 300 standard type cargo cranes. The text, w
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on August 1985The power an engine develops is dependent on the pressure developed in its cylinder or cylinders. The General Thermodynamics Corporation, Plymouth, Mass., uses this pressure to sense the power developed in various types of engines. Its initial application was in an aircraft engine to give a co
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on August 1985Tidewater Inc. has adopted a capital expenditure budget of $40 million for fiscal year 1986 which commenced on April 1, 1985. The budget, which will be funded largely through internal cash generation, is as follows: marine services, $25 million; compression services, $12 million; and oil and
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on August 1985Alfa-Laval, Inc.. Fort Lee, N.J., has introduced a new Nirex freshwater distiller designed to meet the needs of smaller vessels. Designated the -JWP-26-C, the unit is a smaller version of the -JWP-36-C series. The unit can be used on fishing vessels, work boats, supply boats and offshore rig
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on August 1985The Paul Lindenau Shipyard in Kiel, West Germany, recently delivered the energy-saving, IMO Type II oil/chemical tanker Manitou (photo) to Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch of Hamburg. This specialized tanker is the fourth of a series that the Lindenau yard developed together with the shipping
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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Kenneth W. Waldorf, Zapata Gulf chairman and chief executive officer, has announced. Larry T. Rigdon has been named vice president-domestic operations with responsibility for the Gulf
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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Larry T. Rigdon, vice president-North American operations, has announced. Based in the Harvey, La., office, B.B. Breland has been named manager-tugs and barges. Reporting to him are Jo
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on August 1985—Literature Available NICOR Marine Inc. and Sonat Subsea Services Inc. recently announced that they have entered into a cooperative agreement to offer underwater services in the Gulf of Mexico. A NICOR Marine vessel has been modified to accommodate Sonat Subsea saturation diving and remotel