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on June 1981J. David Shlemmer, vice president of Western Gear Corporation and manager for the Power Transmission Division, announced that Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery, Ltd. of South Korea has awarded Western Gear a $1.5-million contract for six propulsion drives to be installed on three Daew
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on June 1981Designers & Planners, Inc., a naval architecture and marine engineering firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Galveston, Texas, is establishing a Philadelphia Area office. It will provide services to Philadelphia naval activities and other marine-associated organizations w i t h i n thi
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on June 1981Orders for river towboats and barges have been at a high level at Dravo Corporation. During a recent 30-day period, for example, Dravo was awarded contracts to build four 6,000-bhp towboats, each valued at over $4 million. The towboats will be constructed by Dravo's Engineering Works Divisi
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on June 1981The Kraissl Company of South Hackensack, N.J. offers a 172- page catalog that describes, in text and drawings, the many products it supplies to the marine field. The company has been engaged for many years in the design, development, manufacture, and supply of pumps, separators, and other f
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on June 1981The annual student paper meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held recently at the Engineers Club in San Francisco. This meeting was also Past Chairmen's Night, with many past section chairman attending as honored guests. Th
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on June 1981Charles A. Orem, president of Bird-Johnson Company, has been named chief executive officer, according to Howard H. Scott, chairman of the board. Bird- Johnson, a wholly owned subsidiary of A. Johnson & Co., Inc., is one of the world's leading manufacturers of marine propellers. Mr. Orem was
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on May 15, 1981The 900-ton, heavy-duty floating derrick Tog Mor (shown above) was delivered recently by Blohm + Voss AG, Hamburg. Built for Howard Doris Ltd. of Edinburgh, the derrick's hull is 101.4 meters long and 27.4 meters wide (about 332.7 by 89.9 feet). It has been towed to Loch Kishorn yard in Scotl
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on May 15, 1981Geosource Inc., Houston, Texas, recently announced its board of directors has elected William R. Laws to the position of executive vice president. He will have corporate operating responsibility for the company's operations which serve the petroleum exploration, petroleum development and el
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on May 15, 1981Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS), Singapore, recently announced it has signed a contract to construct a drillship for Global Marine Drilling Company of USA. The vessel will be built in Singapore and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 1983. The vessel will be a twi
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on May 15, 1981Bulletin A4-61.00, just released by WABCO Fluid Power Division of American-Standard, Lexington, Ky., describes the full line of Controlair® pneumatic valves for marine a p p l i c a t i o n s . The valves are widely used for pneumatic engine and clutch control as well as to control bow thrus
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on May 15, 1981Capt. Donald F. Stephens, general manager of McAllister Brothers, Inc., Philadelphia, has announced the a p p o i n t m e n t of Christopher T. Palo as marine superintendent. He will be responsible for all engineering and vessel maintenance and repair for the entire Philadelphia fleet and t
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on May 15, 1981Frank L. Anastasio Jr. has been elected president of Marine Concrete Structures, Inc. The New O r l e a n s - b a s e d company is the largest builder in the United States of precast, prestressed concrete gravity structures used in the offshore oil and gas industry. It operates construction
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on May 15, 1981The first shipping line totallyowned by Saudi Arabia became a reality recently following formal acceptance of the first cargo vessel by the newly established Saudi National Shipping Company. The 23,000-gt Saudi Riyadh, a RO/ RO-containership, is the first of seven similar vessels S.N.S.C. ex
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on May 15, 1981David A. Hatcher has been appointed president of Challenger Minerals Inc., the oil and gas exploration and development subsidiary of Global Marine Inc., it was announced recently by C. Russell Luigs, president and chief executive officer of Global Marine. Mr. Hatcher previously was a vice p
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on May 15, 1981Drilling Investments Ltd., a subsidiary of Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine has recently purchased a jackup drilling rig from leading rigbuilder, Promet Pte Ltd. The US$50-million rig, measuring 212 feet by 210 feet by 26 feet, is one of the largest threelegged jackup platform rigs. It will
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on May 15, 1981Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently launched another of its offshore supply vessels. Sponsor of the NMS 209 (shown above) was Mrs. Hugh Jackson, wife of the president of Jackson Marine Corporation, owner of the vessel. This $3.5-million vessel is the ninth among the 12 contracted P
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on May 15, 1981Sun Ship, Inc. of Chester, Pa., began a new era of ship repair and conversion business with a recent "reverse launch," as a 700- foot ship was inched carefully out of the water onto dry land. The procedure took about six hours as hydraulic devices moved Matson's RO/ RO ship Lurline (shown abov
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on May 15, 1981Matson Navigation Company has ordered 11 Econics fuel optimization systems to equip all of the boilers on the major ships of the fleet. This order followed a six-month evaluation of a system that was installed on one of the two 110,000 pound hour B&W boilers of Matson's Manulani, a 27,165-dwt,
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on May 15, 1981The 17,780-dwt products carrier Pertamina 1023 (shown above), constructed at the Maizuru Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered recently to Scorpa Pranedya Shipping, Inc., Panama. She is the fifth products carrier of the same type to be delivered by Hitachi for the transportation of refined pe-
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on May 15, 1981Small- to medium-sized merchant ships fitted with sails to augment their propulsion plants can achieve substantial fuel savings, and attain a competitive advantage on certain trade routes. This was a key finding of a 12- month study released recently by the Maritime Administration. The stud