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on May 1988Alfa-Laval, Inc., of Fort Lee, N.J., a world supplier of centrifuges, plate heat exchangers, and watermakers to the chemical, food, mining, marine, power, biotech and numerous other industries, now has available a new eight-page full-color brochure. Titled "Alfa-Laval Service," the publicati
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on May 1988SSPA Maritime Consulting AB of Goteborg, Sweden, has published a four-page color brochure on Roll-Nix, a microcomputer-based system for roll reduction by rudder control. The complete system is controlled by a computer unit with a built-in solid-state rate sensor for independent measurement of
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on May 1988Bird-Johnson Company of Walpole, Mass., has been appointed the exclusive, authorized U.S. service representative for the complete line of marine mechanical engineering products manufactured by Blohm + Voss AG of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Under the new agreement, Bird-Johnson's serv
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on May 1988The Vineyard Spray, a new 82-foot, 300-passenger, high-speed ferry built by Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding, the Duclos Corp. of Somerset, Mass., is scheduled to be commissioned this summer by Bay State Cruises and put into service running daily round trips from Boston to Vineyard Haven in Martha
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on May 1988Tim Parker Sr., chairman of the board, and Tim Parker Jr., president of Parker Towing Company, have announced the promotion of Charles A. Haun to senior vice president, operations, and the addition of Edward W. Peterson as vice president, sales. Mr. Haun has been with Parker Towing since Ja
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on May 1988One of the two partners in Silja Line, Effoa-Suomen Hoyrylaiva Oy, has placed an order for a large passenger ship intended for service on the Helsinki-Stockholm route. The vessel is expected to be delivered in the spring of 1990. At the same time the other partner, Johnson Line Ab, ordered a
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on May 1988James E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott International, Inc., recently announced that the board of directors has formally designated Robert E. Howson, president and chief operating officer of McDermott, as his successor. Mr. Cunningham will reach re
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on May 1988Megator Corporation, of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently completed U.S. Navy contracts valued at $1.3 million. Megator Corporation is the manufacturer of the Megator "Sliding- Shoe Pump." This positive displacement pump had been selected by NAVSEA to undergo extensive NAVSSES testing as a replaceme
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on May 1988J JH Inc., a leading naval engineering organization with facilities located in Crystal City, Va., Portsmouth, Va., Cherry Hill, N.J., Bath, Maine, Panama City, Fla., and Long Beach, Calif., recently announced the expansion of their CADAM capability to their Portsmouth facility. J JH Inc. has
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on May 1988At the Shipbuilders Council of America board meeting held recently in Washington, D.C., James R. Mellor, executive vice president, Marine, Land Systems & International, General Dynamics Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., was elected chairman of the board of directors of the council. Mr. Mellor suc
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on May 1988The maritime college of Nantes, France, recently installed a training simulator that will be used for the training of future engineers for the merchant marine. More than 150 guests, mainly from the French shipping and marine training environment indicated a solid interest in the Norwegian-bu
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on May 1988The Society of Marine Port Engi- neers. New York, N.Y., recently held its 36th annual Fort Schuyler Forum at the SUNY Maritime Col- lege campus in the Throgs Neck sec- tion of the Bronx in New York City. The theme of the forum was "Corrosion Materials and Material Protection," and five tech
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on May 1988ITW Philadelphia Resins of Montgomeryville, Pa., has published a six-page full-color brochure on Chockfast Grouting Systems for machinery installation and foundation repair. Permanent alignment of gas-engine compressors, electric generators, diesel engines, pumps, fans and other rotating an
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on May 1988Cruise International (CI) of Norfolk, Va., operator of the "Spirit" line fleet of seven harbor cruise ships, has announced plans to build five New York-class vessels in the next two years. Two will be built in 1988, and three in 1989. A contract for the first of the two has been awarded to B
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on April 1988Rear Adm. Paul L. Krinksy, superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, has been elected an honorary member of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) by the group's council. A plaque signifying Admiral Krinksy's membership was presented to him by ASNE's president, Dr. Alfred
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on April 1988Tenfjord Inc. of Norway (represented in the U.S. by Tenfjord Inc. of Hoboken, N.J.) is offering free literature on steering gears manufactured to their rotary piston design. The Tenfjord unit is very compact, especially the M-type with its integral pump units, and space-saving is an importan
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on April 1988Rexnord Defense Systems Inc., the New Orleans-based manufacturer of marine automation and control systems, has been purchased by its former president and renamed TANO Corporation. James J. Reiss Jr. has purchased all outstanding stock of Rexnord Defense Systems from its parent company, Rexn
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on April 1988The new RS-7100 VHF radiotelephone is a heavy duty commercial grade system that permits use of up to six full-function remote stations. Extremely popular in Europe, the RS-7100 is now approved for use in the United States. This is a full duplex radio, with dual watch, designed primarily for
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on April 1988Datamarine adds a new dimension to loran and Satnav navigation with the introduction of the Model 7000 Datamarine Chartlink. The Chartlink delivers vital navigation information quickly and in an easy-to-understand form by translating loran or Satnav information into an easily recognizable el
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on April 1988Inventory Locator Service, Inc. (ILS), Memphis, Tenn., is now offering its Cross Reference Data Base of more than 22 million part numbers on compact disc. Named CD-Fiche, the ILS CDROM (read only memory) is offered to subscribers as an alternative to on-line access to the ILS Cross Reference