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on June 15, 1981A recent keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego initiated construction of the first in a series of 37,500-dwt diesel-powered product carriers being built by NASSCO for American Tankships, Inc., a subsidiary of Ingram Corporation, New Orleans. C
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on June 15, 1981Massport executive director David W. Davis has announced the arrival of a special cargo for the Port of Boston. The first of two low-profile container cranes that will service Massport's Castle Island Marine Terminal is now in port. The crane was built by Paceco, Inc. at their Gulfport, Mis
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on June 15, 1981David H. Green, president and chief executive officer of Savannah Shipyard Company, has announced that Vincent J. Ferraro Jr. has been elected vice president- estimating for the Savannah, Ga., company and continues with his present duties and responsibilities as chief estimator. He is respo
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on June 15, 1981Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, Livingston, N.J., has just published a 16-page, full-color brochure describing and illustrating its full range of marine boilers and auxiliary equipment including condensers, steam jet air ejectors, inert gas generators, and flue gas scrubbers. The booklet
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on June 15, 1981Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, announced recently that it is negotiating a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the operating assets of Nilo Barge Line, Inc., a subsidiary of Olin Corporation. Directors of Dravo and Olin have approved a letter agreement outlining terms of th
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on June 15, 1981Megasystems, Inc. of Cleveland and Boca Raton, Fla., will design and manufacture the complete automation of an oceangoing, split-hull, suction trailing hopper dredge to be built by Southern Shipbuilding Corporation in Slidell, La. The instrumentation and control package will feature a distr
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on June 15, 1981Edward B. Walsh has been elected assistant vice president and controller of the J.J. Henry Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., one of the nation's principal naval architectural and marine engineering firms. In his newly expanded role, Mr. Walsh will report to Robert Axelrod, vice president of finance
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on June 15, 1981For the past several years, John G. Alden of Florida has been increasing its sales activity in the offshore tug and barge market. The increases have been primarily due to the knowledge and efforts of David Parrot, a 14- year veteran of the Alden organization. Alden was founded in 1909 by Jo
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on June 15, 1981RCA Service Company has announced the opening of a marine services office at 102 Freret Street, Morgan City, La. The office, which will cover the port city of Houma as well as Morgan City, will serve as a sales, installation, and service center for the leading brands of navigation and commu
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on June 15, 1981As the first in a series of planned improvements, a new 160-foot drydock (shown above) has been launched at the National Marine Service shipyard in Harvey, La. Located at the junction of the Harvey and Algiers Canals, the yard, formerly known as the Wall Shipyard, was acquired by National Mari
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on June 15, 1981Following the Arab oil embargo in late 1973, International Paint Company rose to the challenge of combating rising fuel costs with the introduction of the Intersmooth SPC (self-polishing copolymer) antifouling coating system. The newest member of this family of coatings is Intersmooth SPC-2
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on June 1981J.P. Elverdin has been named vice president-shipping for United States Steel, it was announced by Thomas Marshall, group vice president-resource development. A native of Argentina, Mr. Elverdin holds law degrees from the U n i v e r s i t y of Buenos Aires, Southern M e t h o d i s t Univers
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on June 1981Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., recently received orders for satellite ground equipment from Digital Communications Corporation (DCC), a M/A-COM company. The order calls for products to be used in satellite shore stations being constructed or retrofitted for service in the INMARSAT
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on June 1981Wilson Walton International SAF, at the request of French shipyards, has developed a special version of the Incymar Sen- ior marine incineration unit suitable for use aboard passenger vessels and ferries. The special unit, developed in conjunction with the Pillard Group, is designed for the
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on June 1981J.D. Cain, formerly subdivision manager, survey products, has been appointed division manager, products division, for Racal-Decca Survey, Inc. He joined the company in 1973 as a senior staff oceanographer. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and holds a BA degree in meteorology and an
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on June 1981An eight-page, full-color brochure describing and illustrating its marine sewage t r e a t m e nt plants is available from Weir Pumps Limited of Glasgow, Scotland. The Weir Biomac and Thermobiomac sewage t r e a t m e nt plants, designed and constructed to comply with IMCO and U.S. Coast Gu
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on June 1981Goodway Tools Corporation of Stamford, Conn, has announced the availability of its new 18-page catalog featuring tube cleaning systems and boiler efficiency testers. Goodway specializes in tube cleaning equipment and offers a complete line of efficient, timesaving electric- or air-powered m
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on June 1981A guide to the main international, governmental and industrial organizations concerned with oil pollution in the marine environment has been published recently in London by Witherby & Co., Ltd. The Directory identifies organizations concerned with oil spill prevention, contingency planning,
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on June 1981Joe B. Foster has been elected an executive vice president of Tenneco Inc., Houston. In his new post, Mr. Foster becomes a member of the company's Corporate Office and has been assigned overall corporate-level responsibility for an existing Tenneco operating unit, Tenneco Oil Exploration and
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on June 1981Five tugs of Smit International, i n c l u d i n g the 22,000-bhp Smit Rotterdam, and a Norwegian tug, h a v e towed the deck for the Statfjord B production platform (shown above) from Stavanger, Norway, to t h e Y r k e f j o r d , 36 miles north of Stavanger. The steel deck with the module