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on May 1981During meetings in New York recently, Grady Brown, chairman of the board of the Liberian Shipowners' Council, discussed shipowner reactions to UNCTAD proposals regarding the phasing out of open registry shipping. Two reports have been prepared by the Council, entitled "Some Arguments Agains
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on May 1981An International Symposium on Ship Operations (ISOSO) will be sponsored in New York City November 17-19 by five major maritime industry organizations, each representing a separate discipline within the industry. The Symposium will be held in the spacious Passenger Terminal on the Hudson Riv
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on May 1981General Dynamics' Charleston (S.C.) Facility will fabricate components for four offshore drilling rigs under a $33-million contract from Bailey & Shannon Drilling Company, Inc. of Stafford, Texas. The award involves construction of major portions of steel work on the rigs. The components wi
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on May 1981V. Wayne Davis has been elected as president of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard Chapter, Portsmouth, Va., of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association (NCAA). The testing superintendent from the Production Department succeeds Andy James, head, Employee Relations Division of the Industrial Re
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on May 1981The Blohm + Voss M1000® joiner partition and ceiling system, which has been installed in more than 580 merchant and naval vessels and some 85 offshore units in the North Sea, will now be manufactured in the United States. B + V recently announced plans for a plant in the Gulf Coast area. T
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on May 1981American Aero, Inc. of Houston, a subsidiary of Weatherford I n t e r n a t i o n a l , has promoted Dwight Toney to sales and operations manager for its Marine Crane Division. He will be responsible for both domestic and international sales involving the firm's varied line of hydraulic mar
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on May 1981In covering materials for marine transporting, problems exist that can be eliminated by the use of a super strength netting available from the Griffolyn Company Division of Reef Industries, Houston. The primary applications for the netting are: prevention of tarp ballooning due to high winds
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on May 1981The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has signed an agreement with the Register of Shipping of the People's Republic of China (ZC) for reciprocal performance of classification and other services, such as assigning Load Lines. The agreement allows ABS exclusive surveyors to be stationed in C
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on May 1981A contract to provide diesel main propulsion engines for two new 35,000-dwt Falcon I tankers has been awarded to the Transamerica Delaval Inc. Engine and Compressor Division in Oakland, Calif. The announcement was made by Division general manager Clinton S. Mathews. The two 666-foot vessels a
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on May 1981Inc., Seattle naval architects and marine engineers, and the Norwegian-owned Maritime Technical Consultants Corporation of Seattle was announced recently. The announcement was made jointly by B.F. Jensen and Kaspar Overaa of MTCC. The merged organization will be called Jensen Maritime Consulta
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on May 1981The Naval Air Development Center, Warminister, Pa. Chapter of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association recently awarded an honorary membership to Capt. Ralph S. Barnaby, USN (ret.). Captain Barnaby, now 87 years old, has had a long and intimate association with the Center and its civilian
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on May 1981A uniquely simple system for measuring and inspecting cargoes of petroleum and chemical tankers and barges is the topic of a new 24-page brochure offered by Vu-Gage System, a Mobil Company. The Vu-Gage® system covered by the brochure has been accepted f o r i n s t a l l a t i o n on U.S. Co
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on May 1981Gerald R. Carson has joined American President Lines (APL) as a director of operations, North America, according to Lorenz P. Robinson, vice president for the North America area. Mr. Carson is responsible for the overall coordination and control of the intermodal carrier's operations within
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on May 1981The Ship Structure Committee has recently published three new technical reports which are available free of charge. SSC-297, "Evaluation of Liquid Dynamic Loads in Slack LNG Cargo Tanks," presents a review of worldwide scale model sloshing data and reduces the data to a common format for th
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on May 1981The appointment of Larry C. Anderson to the position of marketing manager, Raytheon Marine Company dealer/distributor programs, was announced by Stan Clark, director of marketing operations. Mr. Anderson will administer the company's light marine sales and marketing programs, working closel
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on May 1981Edward A. Wardwell, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Oceaneering International, Houston, has been elected as the new chairman of the board of directors of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). He served as NOIA's vice chairman last year and as a member of the
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on May 1981Kiyotaka Furuno, p r e s i d e nt and founder of the Furuno Electric Company, Ltd., Nishinomiya City, Japan, was given special recognition by the National Marine E l e c t r o n i c s Association (NMEA) in the closing ceremonies of their recent annual convention held in St. Petersburg Beach
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on May 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application from Rio Marine, Inc., Pearland, Texas, for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of seven double-skin chemical tank barges. Three of the vessels were delivered last year (one in June and two in Decembe
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on May 1981A new 12-page catalog (No. 3231) describing Spicer® universal joint couplings for industrial applications is now available from the Spicer Universal Joint Division, Dana Corporation, Detroit. The catalog includes both cardan type and constant-velocity type joints. Spicer universal joint cou
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on May 1981Alfred Kurzenhauser has been appointed vice president for production of St. Louis Ship and the Shipbuilding Group of Pott Industries Inc., according to Edward Renshaw, president. Most recently, Mr. Kurzenhauser was commander of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the nation's largest repair yard, a