Short Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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on April 15, 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) of Japan has developed a 35,000-dwt, standard type bulk carrier designed to meet the increasing demand for ships smaller than Panamax types. Shin-ichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Inc., said the ship will be constructed at the company's Shimizu shipyard. With a dra
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on April 15, 1981As part of its continuing program of modernization aimed toward increasing present lifting capacity to meet the technological needs of the trade, Hellenic Lines has contracted for the conversion of four ships to fully cellularized container vessels. The vessels to be converted are four of t
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on April 15, 1981The Mare Island Naval Shipyard Chapter of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association recently elected new officers. Pictured above from left to right are: Larry Hebert, secretary, who is the director of the Quality Assurance Office; Ted Allen, president, who is the director of the Manage
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on April 15, 1981Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., recently launched the third in a series of 16 YRBM(L) berthing barges (photo above) under construction for the Naval Sea Systems Command. The YRBM(L) vessels have a 146-foot overall length, 46-foot beam, and 688-long-ton displacement. A total o
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on April 15, 1981Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered the 70-foot towboat Trotter (shown above) to Missouri River Barge Lines of St. Louis, Mo. The vessel is HUDSHTP's standard 70-foot towboat design and represents the yard's continued diversification in the ever-changi
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on April 15, 1981The Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers gathered for a recent meeting aboard the converted cruise ship Princess Louise berthed in Los Angeles Harbor. The subject of the e v e n i n g ' s technical paper, "Radar — A New Approach to Level G
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on April 15, 1981The Veracruz II (shown above), a 4,500-bhp cutter suction dredger, has been delivered to Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Mexico, by the Aichi Works of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. (IHI), Japan. The RD-26, a 1,672- bhp tugboat to be attached to the dredger,
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on April 15, 1981An international Marine Fuel Utilization Conference/Exposition will be held September 1-4 this year at the Convention Center in Baltimore. Co-sponsored by the Marine Energy Institute, Inc. (MEI) of Baltimore and The Motor Ship magazine of London, the event is intended to provide a forum and i
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on April 15, 1981Levingston Shipbuilding Company has launched the Dixilyn- Field 87 (shown above) at its shipyard in Orange, Texas. The triangular shaped, Levingston designed Class 111-C jackup drilling rig is 200 feet by 186 feet by 23 feet. When this self-elevating drilling platform is completed, it will
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on April 15, 1981Long Beach Container Terminal, Inc., recently ordered two Transtainer® cranes from Paceco, Inc. of Alameda, Calif. Paceco, worldwide manufacturer of dockside, terminal, and shipboard container handling cranes, is a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, Detroit. The two r u b b e r - t i r ed
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on April 1981The first floating drydock in Texas south of Houston was launched (photo above) at the Port of Corpus Christi recently. The facility has the capacity to lift boats and barges weighing up to 1,300 tons, and is operated by Jay Bludworth Inc. The first vessel hauled out for repairs on the 108-
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on April 1981O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft recently delivered a contract to supply a hopper suction dredger with a hopper capacity of 1,500 cubic meters. The contract was placed by Heinrich H i r d e s GmbH, Hamburg. The dredger will be built to Germanischer- Lloyd class +100 A4 "Dredger" +M
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on April 1981A recent SNAME New England Section meeting was held at the Faculty Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The speaker was Lyssimachos Vassilopoulos, president of Maritech, Inc. He presented a paper titled "Stiffness and Damping of Thrust Bearings," Engineering
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on April 1981Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Wash., has reported the best year in the company's 60- year history. The company's yearend backlog, at more than $300 million, also is the highest recorded, said Frank B. Lynott, chairman. For the year 1980, Tacoma Boatbuilding had net income of $4.6 mil
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on April 1981The Krupp-Owned Buckau- Walther group has been commissioned by Abu Dhabi's Water and Electricity Department to supply a floating seawater desalination plant worth about 21-million Deutschemarks (about $10.5 million). It is one of the first units of this kind in the world, and the first comm
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on April 1981Barge shipments of grain destined for export reached a record 1.95 billion bushels in 1980, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The share of all export grain carried by barges last year reached 40.3 percent, also a record "These impressive figures a
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on April 1981The 133,361-dwt bulk carrier World Dulce (shown above) was completed recently at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen for Kingdom Company S.A., Panama. This large-capacity bulker was developed specifically to meet world industry's growing raw materials needs. Ore and coal will be her main carg
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on April 1981Now offered as an option from Gems Sensors Division, Transamerica Delaval Inc., are level switches and level transmitters with e x p l o s i o n - p r o o f junction boxes. This option is approved by Factory Mutual (FM) for Class I, Division I, Group D hazardous areas. The level switches of
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on April 1981Tracor has introduced a new Satellite Navigator. Named after the North Star and the submarines which first tested the Transit system, the Polaris SatNav is a full-feature, total-performance system at a competitive price. Its housing is sleek yet functional with a yoke that provides overhead,
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on April 1981Robert E. Curry Jr. has been named vice president and head of the Legal Department, and Kathleen Ritch has been named secretary of the Ogden Corporation, it was announced by Ralph E. Ablon, Ogden chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Curry j o i n e d Ogden in 1975, and has been vice pr