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on December 15, 1981Kvaerner, the Norwegian shipbuilding and engineering group and the Finnish ship equipment m a n u f a c t u r i n g c o m p a n y Oy Navire AB, Parainen, have recently announced the intent to merge. When joined with Kvaerner Brug equipment company, Oslo, Norway, the new organization will h
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on December 15, 1981Maher Terminals Inc. has embarked on a major expansion program at its container facility in Elizabeth, N.J. The p r o g r a m , scheduled for completion next August, includes the acquisition of a $4.2-million container crane, which will be added to its three existing cranes. Maher is also a
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on December 15, 1981Ward Fuller, executive vice president of American Steamship Company, Buffalo, N.Y., has been given the additional responsibility of chief operating officer, it was announced recently by Thomas W. Burke, president and chief executive officer of the GATX subsidiary company. Mr. Fuller joined
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on December 15, 1981P. Takis Veliotis has been designated executive vice presidentmarine and international operations of General Dynamics Corp., according to a recent announcement by David S. Lewis, chairman and chief executive officer. The post, according to Mr. Lewis, is a new one that includes responsibility
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on December 15, 1981The Marine Diesel Division of the Allis-Chalmers Corp., Milwaukee, Wis., recently received an order valued at more than $6 million covering construction of 60 mud pumps for drilling rigs made by the Wilson Manufacturing Co., Wichita Falls, Texas. The division, whose major activity is constr
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on December 15, 1981The joint fall meeting of the New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Southern New England Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers featured a presentation by Rear Adm. John Beecher, USN, on "USN Battleship Reactivation Program," followi
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on December 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the reconstruction of the 264,000-dwt tankers Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland to comply with the Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978. Each of the vessels was built with the
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on December 1981Joseph T. Lykes Jr. will retire at year-end as chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation. He will be succeeded as chief executive officer by W. James Amoss Jr., president of the company. Mr. Lykes has served the New Orleans-
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on December 1981Commissioning ceremonies for the highspeed nuclear-powered attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN 701) were held recently at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn. The La Jolla — named after the city in California — is the ninth of the Los Angelesclass attack submarines to have been built an
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on December 1981The third ship in a new class of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers, the most formidable surface ships of their size now joining the Navy, was commissioned recently at Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss. An additional ship of the class, USS Chandler (DDG 996
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on December 1981A new product brochure on the Allied Water/SweetWater reverse osmosis water maker is now available f r om Allied Water Corporation of Walworth, Wis. According to Bob Daniels, vice president, the R/O brochure thoroughly describes the reverse osmosis process c o m p l e t e with membrane illu
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on December 1981The appointment of A1 Spaete to the position of manager of the newly established engine repair division was announced by Edward Renshaw, president of St. Louis Ship. At the same time, Mr. Renshaw announced the appointment of James V. Bishop as administrative manager of the division. The en
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on December 1981The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association announces that plans are complete for the 34th annual technical conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on March 2, 1981. The meetings actually begin on Monday, March 1, with closed session meetings
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on December 1981The centennial observance of the founding of the naval architecture and marine engineering programs at the University of Michigan was linked with the recently held fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Five technica
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on December 1981The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a contract valued at $12.6 million to Uniflite, Inc., Bellingham, Wash., fiberglass boat manufacturer, for the construction of 38 trailerable 36-foot Seafox special warfare craft, according to James J. Doud Jr., Uniflite president. The smallest com
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on December 1981Paducah Marine Ways has announced its intention to construct a new fabrication shop and also an adjoining propeller repair shop in order to modernize and improve the efficiency of its efforts on the Ohio River for the marine industry. The total of 14,000- square-foot facilities will be const
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on December 1981Brown & Root Norge A / S was recently awarded a contract by Dansk Boreselskab A / S (Danbor) of Denmark for the installation of in-field pipelines in the Danish sector of the North Sea f o r the Danish Undergrounds Consortium's gas development project. Commencing in May 1982 the contract co
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on December 1981The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its October meeting at the Engineers' Club in center city, Philadelphia. About 70 members and guests turned out f o r the presentation of a paper on an interesting aspect of the use of the handheld compute
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on December 1981Japan's six largest shipping companies plan to invest more than $3.4 billion in construction of 83 new cargo vessels during the next three years, according to the Japan development Bank (JDB). The construction will consist mainly of carriers of non-oil energy resources, presumably coal car
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on December 1981The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved a Farrell Lines Incorporated request to charter the Austral Lightning and Austral Rainbow to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) for two years with three ore-year optional extensions. The 820-foct, 29,800-dwt barge and container carriers were built wit