Short Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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on August 15, 1981Phoenix Management Corporation of Houston has awarded B e t h l e h em Steel Corporation's shipyard at Sparrows Point, Md., a contract for construction of a mobile offshore oil drilling rig. Announcement of the contract was made by William R. Hargrove, president of Phoenix Management, and G
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on August 15, 1981Racal-Decca Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Racal Electronics Ltd., has announced the expansion of two facilities in the U.S. The company has relocated its Port of New York Service Center to a new and larger facility located at 70 Jackson Drive (2nd floor), Cranford, N.J. 07016. An enlarged t
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on August 15, 1981Two identical 101-foot aluminum crewboats, the Shawn (shown above) and Craig built by Halter Marine, Inc. for J.P.M. Ltd. of Ventura, Calif., are now serving Union 76 rigs in the Pacific off southern California. The boats were purchased recently from Halter's in stock building program and w
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on August 15, 1981The collier now building at General Dynamics, Quincy, Shipyard for Keystone Shipping and New England Electric is a self-unloader and the first coal burning and carrying vessel to be built in the United States in 25 years. Two 4 - f o o t - w i d e continuous conveyor belts run the full lengt
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on August 15, 1981The Naval Civilian Administration Association's (NCAA) 35th National Conference was recently conducted in Charleston, S.C. The NCAA is a national organization of senior- level managers employed in Navy Civil Service. It has chapters at 13 Naval establishments, including seven shipyards, three
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on August 15, 1981Nashville (Tenn.) Bridge Company (NABRICO) has delivered an integrated two-barge single-skin petroleum tow to Alabama River Barge Co., Mobile, Ala. Each barge, one a lead barge and the other a trail barge, is 297 feet by 54 feet by 12 feet. Total Capacity of the two-barge tow is approximately
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on August 15, 1981The promotion of Larry A. Augsburger to vice president-administration was announced recently by Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production, a major operating unit of Tenneco Inc. John W. Sylvester Jr. was named to succeed Mr. Augsburger as director of employee relations. Mr. Augsburger joined T
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on August 15, 1981In the last 12 months Deutz Corporation has introduced production of air-cooled diesel engines at its Richmond, Ind., plant. Richmond now assembles the F3L 912, F4L 912, F5L 912 (automotive and marine/industrial), and F6L 912 engines. The precombustion chambered F4L 912W and F6L 912W engine
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on August 15, 1981James H. Sessions has been named president of Newpark Shipbuilding and Repair, Inc., a shipyard with barge cleaning and gas freeing facilities situated on 22 acres on an island in the Houston Ship Channel. Newpark also announced the appointments of Stephen R. Haskew and Kimble R. Lehman as
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on August 15, 1981John G. Smith has been promoted to general manager of Krupp Atlas Elektronik U.S.A. For the past year he has served as regional sales manager for the East and Gulf Coasts. Krupp Atlas Elektronik is a leading marine electronics manufacturer based in Bremen, West Germany. The Krupp Atlas prod
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on August 1981Lt. Gen. John W. Morris, USA (ret.), former Chief of Engineers, has been elected president of the National Waterways Foundation, a recently established research and education organization. The announcement was made by the Foundation's chairman, David A. Wright of St. Louis, president of Nat
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on August 1981Contractor sea trials of submarines built by General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn., will be supported by Raytheon Company's research vessel Sub Sig II under terms of a charter signed recently by the two firms. The vessel, owned and operated by Raytheon's Submarine Signal
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on August 1981The 60,010-dwt bulk carrier Rayna (shown above) was delivered recently to Epos Marine Corporation (Greece). She was constructed at the Hiroshima Works (Innoshima) of Hitachi Zosen to American Bureau of Shipping classification. The Rayna is a Panamax type standard bulk carrier, the largest siz
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on August 1981Bayou Black Shipyard recently delivered the push boat, the 'Bengal Phil', to Hillman Marine, Inc. of Morgan City, La. The boat has a length of 60 feet, a beam of 25 feet, and depth midship of 9 feet. The Bengal Phil's fuel capacity is approximately 16,000 gallons; water capacity is approximate
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on August 1981Interstate and Ocean Transport Company (IOT) has announced the recent opening of its new Southern Fleet Center at 2040 Guy N. Verger Boulevard, Tampa, Fla. The new center is strategically located in the Port of Tampa to support Interstate's Gulf Coast fleet of superbarges. These mammoth bar
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on August 1981The keel for Hull 730 was laid recently at Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The oceangoing bulk cargo barge is being built for Ocean Barge Corporation, New York. This will be the first vessel built for Ocean Barge Corporation by Bay Shipbuilding Corp. The 550-foot by 78-foot tug
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on August 1981RCA Service Company recently announced the introduction of a worldwide service network to provide fixed-price maintenance coverage for marine communications and navigation equipment. The service is being provided at over 230 ports of call in 60 countries, according to Martin H. Rubin, divisi
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on August 1981Senator Spark Matsunaga (DHawaii) announced recently that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected the Hawaiian Dredging and Construction Company, a subsidiary of Dillingham Corporation of Honolulu, as the lead company for the $7.6-million ocean thermal energy
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on August 1981Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been awarded a $40-million contract by Newport News Shipbuilding to build eight turbine generator sets for the CVN-17, the Navy's fifth nuclear aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded to the Westinghouse Marine Division in Sunnyva
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on August 1981Korea's Hyundai Group has won what is reported to be the largest single shipbuilding c o n t r a c t in history to build nine vessels for the United Arab Shipping Company. Under the USD 400-million contract, Hyundai will construct nine containerships of 35,500 dwt each and 14,000 steel conta