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on December 1981The 38-foot aluminum crewboat Matmar Drill III was delivered recently by Kings Craft, Inc., Florence, Ala., to Matagorda Marine Drilling Company of Corpus Christi, Texas. She is the third of four aluminum vessels built at the yard for the same owner. All four boats are 38 feet long by 13-f
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on December 1981Bergeron Marine, Inc., Port Bienville, Miss., recently delivered the Tide Mar 34, a 10,500- barrel-capacity tank barge, to Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. of New Orleans, La. Tidewater Marine is the marine subsidiary of Tidewater Inc. The barge measures 160 feet long, 42 feet wide, 12 feet d
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on December 1981T h e M i l i t a r y Sealift Command's emergency cargo lift force was strengthened when the Navy recently accepted from Sea-Land Industries the third of six of the fastest and largest containerships in the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. The three 33-knot SL-7 containerships are part of a six-shi
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on December 1981Peter J. West has joined Transway International Corporation, New York, N.Y., as vice president- operations, a newly created position, it was announced recently. Mr. West has corporate staff responsibility for marine transportation, truck trailer manufacturing, and liquefied petroleum gas op
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on November 15, 1981The Hawaii Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its first meeting of the 1981-82 season recently at the Cannon Club, on the Lanai, Fort Ruger, under the chairmanship of Dr. Manley St. Denis. A paper entitled "High-Speed Catamaran Hydrofoils" was delivered by
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on November 15, 1981Capt. James S.C. Chao, president and managing director of Foremost Maritime Corporation, New York, N.Y., a company he helped to found in 1964, recently received the Medal of Honor f r om St. John's University, Queens, N.Y. The medal was presented by the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, C.M., at
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on November 15, 1981Astilleros de Santander, S.A. has announced the implementation of a major expansion project which will increase the capacity of its Number 1 drydock from 6,500 dwt to 25,000 dwt. The drydock is being lengthened from 405 to 535 feet, and widened from 52 to 78 feet. In addition, crane capacity
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on November 15, 1981Plans for a semisubmersible offshore drilling unit capable of drilling in waters up to 6,000 feet deep are being finalized by Imperial Oil Ltd., a subsidiary of Esso Resources, Canada, Ltd. The rig will be used for a multiwell d r i l l i n g program off the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrad
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on November 15, 1981Supertankers that may require marine repairs and engineering services while at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port can utilize a new service group formed recently by Marine Agents of Galliano, Inc. A free-on-request pamphlet describes the facilities and services of MAGI-Marine Agents of Gallian
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on November 15, 1981Marintec China '81 will take place in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, from December 10 through December 16. Butterworth Systems has announced it will be present with several maj o r pieces of equipment on display, including the SFC 5 BW Oil/Water Separator, which provides "clean" wate
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on November 15, 1981Executives of The Ohio River Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, the nation's largest barge mover of coal, met recently with 23 Finnish b u s i n e s s m e n at ORCO's headquarters to discuss the shipment of U.S. coal to Finland. The group, which includes representatives of Finnish electric utility
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on November 15, 1981Northern Radio announces the recent introduction of the Model N-860 Scanning, synthesized HF/ SSB transceiver. The new Model N-860, FCC type accepted, is said to be the first Scanning HF/SSB transceiver to be made available to the U.S. market. It features 200 field programmable and selectab
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on November 15, 1981The Port of Portland Commission, at its regular monthly meeting, approved an agreement that will give Portland representation in Europe — marking the first presence of the Port on that continent since the overseas representative program was initiated in 1972. European countries account for
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on November 15, 1981General Ship Corporation of Boston, Mass., has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract in the amount of $11.8 million for the regular overhaul of USS Vulcan (AR-5). Under the new contract, Vulcan will arrive in the yard in January 1982 for an ll-1 / - month over- haul. General Ship is now complet
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on November 15, 1981Worldwide orders for offshore mobile and fixed rigs for exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas have increased considerably during the 12 months ending in July 1981, according to a study just released by the Bremen Institute for Shipping Economics. At the beginning of July there w
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on November 15, 1981David A. Daniels has been appointed national sales manager for chemicals by M&T Chemicals Inc., Woodbridge, N.J. He will be responsible for all sales activities f o r the Plastic Additives, Industrial Chemicals and the Bio & Fine Chemicals Divisions. Mr. Daniels joined M&T in 1970 as a rese
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on November 15, 1981A fact-filled six-page brochure detailing the design features of the company's line of class 150 and class 300 end entry ball valves, reduced bore, was published recently by the Valve Division of Zidell Explorations, Inc., Portland, Ore. In addition to a photograph of a typical valve, the b
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on November 15, 1981Bob Daniels, vice president, Marland Environmental Systems, Walworth, Wis., has announced that a new product bulletin on the firm's improved design of the Inverto®, oil/water separator is available. The Inverto bulletin describes the principles of operation and illustrates the flow pattern
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on November 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application by Wisconsin Barge Lines, Inc., Sunset Hills, Mo., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one towboat and 68 barges. American Bridge, Ambridge, Pa., delivered 15 rake barges earlier this year and
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on November 15, 1981A 12-page full color brochure detailing the range of the company's marine diesel engines has been published by SACM of Mulhouse, France. The company is represented in the U.S. by F.W. Donnelly Company of Houston, Texas. SACM manufactures a range of diesel engines from 400hp through 8,000hp