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on March 1983Selesmar of Florence, Italy has announced the signing of an agreement with INI of Spain, in which INI has acquired 20 percent of the share capital of Selesmar. A leading manufacturer of marine radars and ARPA anti-collision systems, Selesmar had previously been fully controlled by S.M.A. Wi
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on March 1983The Philadelphia area based firm of Scientific Management Associates, Inc. (SMA) was acquired recently by two Washington, D.C., businessmen, George W. Glatis and Louis T. Donatelli, who plan to move the headquarters to the Washington metropolitan area. Mr. Glatis is the former chairman of t
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on March 1983Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES), jointly with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, recently received an order from Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc. of the U.S. to build a semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig deliverable in July 1985. The rig will be a semisubmersible unit
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on March 1983Talon Technology Corporation, Richardson, Texas, was organized recently to provide mobile satellite data communications systems and consulting services to the petroleum, marine, and defense industries. Lynn B. Heitman is president of the new company, whose corporate headquarters are at 1819
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on March 1983Tracor, Inc., of Austin, Texas, announced recently that its Applied Sciences Group has received an initial $4.6-million contract with a potential value in excess of $9.9-million over the next two years from the Naval Sea Systems Command. The contract is for continued engineering and technic
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on March 1983Captain Ralph Diaz was recently elected president of the Greater New Orleans Barge Fleeting Association at the association's recent meeting. The association represents 46 barge and fleet operations in the New Orleans area. Captain Diaz is operations manager for towing and fleeting with T.
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on March 1983Seaward International, Inc., Falls Church, Va., supplied 16 Sea Float pendant buoys to a worldwide drilling company for use on four jackup rigs scheduled for service in the Middle East. The buoys have a unique square cross section that minimizes the ADDRESShazard of their rolling around on
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on March 1983Guided Missile Frigate USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23) was delivered to the Navy recently after completion of its Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) by the Los Angeles Division of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, it was announced recently by Len M. Thorell, vice president and general manager
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on March 1983The Barco Corporation recently celebrated its third anniversary by moving into a new facility located in a new industrial park adjacent to the International Airport in Tampa, Fla. Barco Corporation pioneered a new elastomer flexible impeller used in cooling pumps in marine engines as well a
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on March 1983The recent meeting of the Puget Sound Section of ASNE heard Capt. Timothy R. O'Keefe, USN, commanding officer, USS William H. Standley (CG-32), deliver an address entitled "The Soviet Navy: A Near-Term Capability." An intelligence subspecialist with considerable related operational experience
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on March 1983New area offices in Perth, Australia, and Singapore have been established by Jet Research Center (JRC) of Arlington, Texas. The facilities will provide the complete range of JRC explosive technology to the petroleum, marine construction, and dredging industries. Ron Woods, area manager-busi
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on March 1983Jerry L. Holman has been named vice president and general manager of Honeywell's Marine Systems Division (MSD) in Seattle, Wash., a c c o r d i n g to Warde F. Wheaton, executive vice president of Honeywell's Aerospace and Defense business. He will report to Richard J. Boyle, vice president
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on March 1983Two new vice presidents of Tideland Signal Corporation, the Houston, Texas-based designer, manufacturer and worldwide distributor of navigational aids and solar electric generators, have been announced by president S.N. Sprunt. They are Victor G. Taylor, manager, East Coast area, Wilmington,
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on March 1983The Russellstoll Division of the Midland-Ross Corporation, Livingston, N.J., recently assumed total sales and marketing responsibility for Northern Rig Lites, Inc., of Houston, Texas. This product line is to be considered an additional Russellstoll product offering. All existing Russelstoll
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on March 1983Joseph R. Hines has been named vice president of Robin Hood Fleeting Services of Baton Rouge, La. Robin Hood Fleeting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Transload and Transport, Inc. (TTI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Twin City Barge, Inc. The a n n o u n c e m e n t was made by Wayne Musgrov
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on March 1983Global Marine Development Inc., Newport Beach, Calif., (GMDI) and Oceanographic Services Inc. (OSI) Goleta, Calif., jointly announced the opening recently of their Anchorage liaison office in the newly constructed Frontier Building. Manager of the new office is Harold Ramsden of Global Mari
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on March 1983Lavalin Services, Inc. of Montreal (Quebec) Canada, and Solus Ocean Systems, Inc. of Houston, Texas, have agreed to form a jointly owned Canadian company to be called Lavalin Ocean Systems, Ltd. The company's headquarters will be located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lavalin Ocean Systems, Ltd.
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on March 1983Three new appointments in the Central Atlantic division of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans, La., were announced recently. William V. Brierre Jr. has been named assistant vice president, Central Atlantic division. Richard J. Lolich has been named director of traffic, and William
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on March 1983Two jackup drilling rigs were christened recently in a ceremony held at Daewoo's Okpo shipyard situated on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. The Friede & Goldman L-780 Mod II-type rigs, which we're ordered byDUal Drilling Co. of the U.S. in September 1981, were named Dual Offshore R
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on March 1983American Lohmann Corporation, Hillside, NJ, is offering free literature describing their marine gearboxes. Featuring the advanced technology developed by Lohmann & Stolterfoht of West Germany, these marine gearboxes offer the design flexibility needed to achieve top propulsion efficiency a