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on September 15, 1984Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) of Stamford, Conn., has been named an authorized International Business Machines value added dealer in the maritime industry for the entire IBM personal computer product line and accessories, according to MMS president Eugene D. Story. Mr. Story also an
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on September 15, 1984BP is to form a joint venture with Belfast shipbuilder Harland and Wolff for the construction of a special single well oil production system (SWOPS) vessel designed to extract oil directly from subsea wells. The agreement is subject to approval from the boards of both companies. The cost of
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on September 15, 1984Mid-America's newest passageway to the Gulf of Mexico—the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway— is moving toward completion much faster than projections based on surveys and studies by the Army Corps of Engineers, say Tenn-Tom officials. Dedication ceremonies for the 234-mile, $2-billion barge canal
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on September 15, 1984The University of California at San Diego has purchased the 125- foot supply/geophysical survey vessel Midnight Alaskan from Midnight Boat Company of Berwick, La., for operation by the worldfamous Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. The research craft will be renamed the
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on September 15, 1984A contract between General Dynamics and United States Lines, Inc. calls for the construction of four big containerships at a total cost of $341,236,000. General Dynamics will not only build the ships, at its Quincy yard, but will also own them and charter them to USL. The vessels will be po
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on September 15, 1984American Marine and Machinery Company (AMMCO) of Nashville has been awarded a contract worth about $390,000 to supply two cutterhead suction dredging machines to the South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources. AMMCO management personnel were given the contract in Pierre, S.D., r
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on September 15, 1984The United States P.&I. Agency, Inc. (USP&I), the marine liability claims adjusting affiliate of Underwriters Adjusting Company, has announced changes in office locations and management responsibilities. The home office, formerly located in New Orleans, has moved to Piscataway, N.J. A new br
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on September 15, 1984Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas of New York, one of the nation's oldest and largest consulting engineering firms, will enter its second century of existence with the formation of a new marine facilities division, Parsons Brinkerhoff Van Houten, headed by Leonard Van Houten. The new divi
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on September 15, 1984Imi-Tech Corporation, Elk Grove, 111., recently announced the availability of its new marine products brochure describing its line of lightweight, fire-resistant insulating products for marine applications. The brochure, Catalog No. 584, also describes the unique core material, Solimide® pol
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on September 15, 1984Halifax Industries Limited of Nova Scotia, whose two shipyards are now managed by AMCA International, recently announced two key appointments. Tom Duncan, formerly general manager of the Burrard Yarrows Corporation, Vancouver, was appointed director of operations, and Mauritz Erhard, formerly
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on September 15, 1984The HEET Automotive Division of DeMert & Dougherty, Inc., Oak Brook, 111., recently announced the introduction of new HEET Diesel Fuel Treatment, a special fuel additive developed by Universal Oil Products Inc. HEET Diesel Fuel Treatment provides important preventive maintenance benefits be
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on September 15, 1984SOFEC, Inc. of Houston has received a contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command for the construction, testing, and sea trials of a rapid deployment single anchor leg mooring terminal known by the trade name RA-DE SALM™. The unit will moor and unload tankers of up to 70,000 dwt in the open
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on September 15, 1984Stanley Symon has been named director of tankers at Stolt- Nielsen Inc, Greenwich, Conn., to succeed Per Heidenreich, according to an announcement by Jacob Stolt-Nielsen Jr., chairman of Stolt Tankers and Terminals. Mr. Heidenreich is leaving the company to pursue other business interests.
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on September 15, 1984A new computerized ship management information system has been developed by Nav-Com, Inc., of Deer Park, N.Y. This system, Busiship™, is the first integrated package that combines fully marinized computer hardware with a wide variety of software packages designed specifically for marine appl
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on September 15, 1984The U.S. Coast Guard recently announced the award of a contract worth $79,664,877 to Bollinger Machine Shop and Shipyard, Inc. of Lockport, La., for construction of 15 high-speed, diesel-powered patrol boats. The contract was awarded following the decision of the U.S. District Court in Washi
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on September 15, 1984With the recent signing of a $3.6- million contract with the U.S. Navy for the construction of 15 110-foot open lighter barges, Moss Point Marine (MPM) of Escatawpa, Miss., has begun to look to the future with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. MPM president John Dane I II summed up the feel
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on September 1984IMO AB of Stockholm, Sweden, one of the companies that will be exhibiting this month at the International Ship Machinery, Marine Technology (SMM) Exhibition and Congress in Hamburg, Germany, has announced some of the new products it will be showing. Among these products will be the IMO-ACF-
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on September 1984The Power Transmission Division of Western Gear Corporation, Lynwood, Calif., has entered into a license agreement with Rademakers Aandrijvingen, B.V. of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The agreement gives Western Gear's Power Transmission Division the right to manufacture and sell Rademakers e
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on September 1984Metric Constructors, Inc. of Charlotte, N.C. has been awarded a $3,378,000 contract by the North Carolina Department of Transportation for the construction of a new marine maintenance facility at Manns Harbor. State-owned vessels, including ferries, tugs and dredges, which operate along the
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on September 1984Nippon Kokan (NKK) in Japan has recently delivered the world's first oceangoing, sail-assisted vessel, the 30,900-dwt bulk carrier Aqua City to her owner, Aqua City Maritime Inc. NKK has pioneered in the design of sailassisted ships in conjunction with the Japan Maritime Machinery Development