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on August 15, 1978William H. Byrne has been named executive vice president for sales of Hoffert Marine Inc., by Paul E. Hoffert, president of the Jacksonville, Fla.-based company that is one of the nation's leading suppliers of deck and engine equipment for merchant marine and Naval vessels. Hoffert Marine al
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on August 15, 1978Oceaneering International, Inc., P.O. Box 2430, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93120, has announced that Taylor Potter will assist Dr. Yoram Goren with the firm's expansion of services into the management of undersea projects. Mr. Potter comes to Oceaneering with a great deal of experience in offsho
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on August 15, 1978The Gobierno Municipal de Ponce (City of Ponce), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, recently ordered a Portainer® crane from Paceco, Inc., a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, Alameda, Calif. Mayor Jose G. Tormos Vega represented the City of Ponce during the contract signing for a 40- long-ton P
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on August 15, 1978Tenn-Tom Towing, Inc., 25 North Section Street, Fairhope, Ala., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two steel oil barges and two oil screw towboats. The vessels will be operated in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and on related connecting river system
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on August 15, 1978A new b r o c h u r e , "Offshore Chloropac® Systems," is available from the Systems Department of Engelhard Industries. Engelhard's Chloropac Generating Systems, skid-mounted, produce sodium hypochlorite for elect r o l y t i c decomposition of salt water with very l i t t l e e l e c t r i
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on August 15, 1978Beliard, Crighton & Cie S.A., the leading French ship repairer based at Dunkirk, recently opened its fourth drydock with the docking of the South African container vessel S.A. Sederberg. Measuring 50 meters by 310 meters (approximately 164 feet by 1,017 feet), the new drydock is capable of
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on August 15, 1978The Energy Bureau announced that Congressman John M. Murphy, Chairman of the House ad hoc Select Committee on The Outer Continental Shelf, will keynote its national two-day conference on offshore oil. Entitled "Offshore Oil: Challenge And Change," the conference will be held on November 2 and
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on August 15, 1978A paper on direct calculation methods in ship structural design presented by Lloyd's Register of Shipping at a recent international shipbuilding symposium, "Preparing for the Eighties," organized at Newcastle upon Tyne northeast England by Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk of Norway, attracted internatio
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on August 1978Crowley Maritime Corp. has ordered construction of two additional 580-foot, triple-deck barges for the Caribbean roll-on/roll-off service operated by its subsidiary, Trailer Marine Transport Corp. Carrying up to 374 forty-foot trailers each, the new barges will be identical to Crowley's La R
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on August 1978A new, large enclosed ship production facility has just been officially opened in England by Cammell Laird, part of the stateowned British Shipbuilders group, with headquarters on the River Mersey. Opening ceremonies were performed by Princess Anne, who by pressing a button lifted the keel sec
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on August 1978The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and the Marine Technology Society have announced plans to sponsor an International Symposium on Marine Salvage to be held in New York City next year. The conference, scheduled for October 1-3, 1979, at the New York Hilton Hotel, will bring m
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on August 1978E. Theodore Laborde, vice president, has been appointed head of the New Orleans, La., office of Marsh & McLennan, Incorporated, one of the nation's leading insurance brokers, and Donald L. Pesquie, v i c e president, has been named deputy manager. Mr. Laborde succeeds John B. Mead, a senior
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on August 1978The formation of Palmer Industries, Inc. has been announced by Clifford M. Palmer, chairman of the board. The new firm, according to Mr. Palmer, will offer the Port of New York-New Jersey the latest technology in chassis and container repair. Palmer Industries' new facility, located at 8 Li
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on August 1978Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. has opened a $2-million barge-cleaning and gas-freeing facility on the Houston Ship Channel, capable of providing a wide range of vessel-cleaning services with extensive environmental safeguards. John W. Sansing, president of Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair
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on August 1978Every product in the extensive BF Goodrich line of industrial hoses is described thoroughly with a new 136-page color catalog available from the BFG Engineered Systems Division. Over 100 different products are listed in the catalog's color-coded table of contents. Separate hose and coupling i
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on August 1978The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved the merger of Lykes Corporation, the parent company of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. into LTV Corporation. Additionally, the Assistant Secretary has granted written permission for the domestic operation of vessels by an affiliated company of LTV. U
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on August 1978Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has undertaken the exclusive U.S. distributorship for SKF Steel, Coupling Division, Hofors, Sweden. Under this agreement, BJCo will market the OK coupling to both marine and industrial concerns. The OK-HB coupling will be made available to suit shaft di
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on August 1978With Mayor George Moscone declaring the Golden Gate Bridge District Ferry System "an important transportation link to San Francisco's new downtown," civic dignitaries and U.S. Department of Transportation officials recently dedicated the new $3-million San Francisco Ferry Terminal at the fo
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on August 1978Kenneth J. McGuckin, Taneytown, Md., has been promoted to the position of vice president of the Engineered Pump Division of Worthington Pump Corporation. He will be responsible for the operations of both the Harrison, N.J., and Taneytown manufacturing and marketing operations. Mr. McGuckin
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on August 1978In the light of the increasing emphasis on minimizing fuel oil consumption and the subsequent widening i n t e r e s t among U.S. shipowners for the application of the low-speed diesel engine, Burmeister & Wain American Corporation has recently carried out an organizational change, which is