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on July 1981National Marine Services, a joint venture company formed by Jackson Marine Corporation and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, will soon take delivery from Promet Private Limited, Singapore of its final order, as the last of its supply vessels, NMS 210 (shown above), was launched recently. All 10
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on July 1981Rodney E. Lay, president of Rudolph F. Matzer & Associates, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that the research vessel Cape Florida (shown above) has been delivered recently to the National Science Foundation. The vessel was built by Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Fort George Island, Fla., an
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on July 1981Installed on a new 80,700-dwt tanker, the first unit of the SSG (Super-economical Shaft Generator) system developed by IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.), Japan, has demonstrated excellent performance through the ship's official trial runs, meeting all of its design expect
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on July 1981Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, Switzerland, is establishing a new subsidiary company in Hong Kong, in recognition of its growing importance as a world shipping center. This will further strengthen Sulzer's position in the Far East, considering the successful activities of companies in
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on July 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, recently announced the following appointments: Ralph A. Vaccaro Jr. has been named contracts manager and will be responsible, on a worldwide basis, for the administration, negotiation and finalization of all c o n t r a c t s . Mr
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on July 1981The Spring Meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was convened r e c e n t l y at the Westlake Holiday Inn near Cleveland. Total registration was 85. Following registration and the business session in which the next year's
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on July 1981The promotion of James Messenger to the position of assistant to manager of ship repair sales in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipbuilding department was announced recently by Louis W. Gomlick, manager. Mr. Messenger is advancing from sales engineer in the ship repair sales office, which i
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on July 1981A six-page, fold-out brochure on its Motorgard™ X Program is available from the Drew Ameroid Marine division of Drew Chemical Corporation, Boonton, N.J. It describes an integrated program for motor vessels incorporating products for critical shipboard systems and services to protect equipme
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on July 1981Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., announced it has acquired the Ryan-Walsh group of companies following approval by shareholders of the Mobile-based cargo-handling organization. The acquisition was made on the basis of 18.825 Dravo common shares for each of the 21,911 shares of Ryan-Walsh
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on July 1981Major steps to reconstruct the nearly century-old sailing ship Wavertree (shown above) to her original design were accomplished at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Hoboken, N.J., shipyard recently. Owned by the South Street Seaport Museum, the Wavertree will have 110 feet of her upper deck, from
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on July 1981A new device to limit or prevent damage to thickeners, clarifiers, mixers, elevators, hoists, conveyors, or other process or materials- handling systems where large torques are encountered, has been introduced by the Delroyd Worm Gear Division of Transamerica Delaval Inc. Designated the TQ-8
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on July 1981The S/S Ponce (shown above) left Sun Ship Inc. recently after undergoing a 22- month, $30-million conversion at the Chester, Pa., shipyard. In the unusual project, which began in July 1979, a new hull section was spliced into the center portion of the rollon /roll-off (RO/RO) trailership, and
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on July 1981Arthur E. Erb, president of Eller & Company, Inc. of Tampa, Fla., has announced the purchase of Uiterwyk Cold Storage Corp. The transaction includes all stock and assets owned by Uiterwyk Cold Storage, one in a group of companies o p e r a t i n g out of Tampa under the Uiterwyk name. This
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on July 1981Paddle flow switches are available from Gems Sensors Division of Transamerica Delaval to provide a flow or no-flow condition for shipboard and other marine applications. The FS-550 paddle units are said to offer the same quality and reliability that has been provided by other Gems flow cont
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on July 1981Todd S h i p y a r d s Corporation has contracted for a 14,000-displacement- ton floating d r y d o ck for its Houston Division, to be built by Bender Shipbuilding & Repair company of Mobile, Ala. The dock and related pier and upland facilities improvements will cost approximately $12 millio
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on July 1981TIW Industries Ltd. of Toronto has signed an agreement with DredgeMasters International, Inc. (DMI) of Hendersonville, Tenn., to cover the manufacturing of portable dredges for Canadian and international markets. The agreement covers complete manufacturing and assembly of a minimum of three
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on July 1981Following negotiations between Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. and M.A.N.-B&W Diesel GmbH on behalf of B&W Diesel A/S, Copenhagen, a license agreement was signed recently authorizing the production of B&W twostroke diesels in Japan by Kawasaki. The 10-year agreement includes all B&W two-str
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on July 1981NICOR Inc. chairman and president C.J. Gauthier recently announced acquisition, with NICOR common stock, of two marine transportation companies — Arthur Levy Enterprises, Inc. and Offshore Island Boats, Inc. These two companies, along with Acadian Marine Service Inc., will operate as NICOR'
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on July 1981SeaTec International, Ltd., Gloucester, Mass., has been awarded a $2.3-million turnkey project to install two 2,800 meter, 8-inch and 16-inch-diameter pipelines and a SOFEC four-buoy CBM tanker mooring system at Probolinggo, Java, Indonesia. The award came from Coutinho, Caro and Company, o
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on July 1981The Maritime Subsidy Board has determined the fair and reasonable price and constructiondifferential subsidy (CDS) rates for the reconstruction of two 89,700-deadweight-ton tankers, the Chestnut Hill and Kittanning, operated by Chestnut Shipping Co. Northwest Marine Iron Works, Portland, O