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on November 1988Mid-Coast Marine, Coos Bay, Ore., recently delivered a 78-foot combination shrimper-crabber to Ron and Marie Miller of Grayland, Wash. Christened the Jamie Marie, the fishing vessel has a beam of 25 feet 6 inches and a molded depth of 12 feet 2 inches. She is powered by a Cummins KT 38M die
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on October 1988David V. White has been named sales manager of the Okabe Company, Inc. Non-Ferrous Division. This division, which specializes in the distribution of nonferrous fasteners, is now stocking a full line of MONEL alloy fasteners, including hex head cap screws, hex nuts, threaded rod to MIL-2-1222
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on October 1988Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) of Korea recently won a mammoth offshore project from the Indian state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) on a turnj^ gy b&sis The Offshore Division of HHI received a letter of intent for the Heera Process Complex Project. Under the agreemen
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on October 1988Intertrade Industries, Marine Products Division, has been awarded a contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command for the supply of 128 Astern Fueling Messenger/ Position Buoys to be delivered to NATO bases in Canada, Scotland, England, Gibraltar, Portugal and Holland, as wellas various U.S.- b
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on October 1988Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O) recently purchased Los Angeles-based Sitmar Cruises for a reported $210 million. With the purchase of Sitmar Cruises, P&O, which already operates a fleet of six ships through its Los Angeles-based Princess Cruises subsidiary, will now be able
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on October 1988The General Ship Repair Corporation, Baltimore, Md., recently was awarded a $921,320 contract by the State of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources to construct an 80-foot-long steel buoy tender/icebreaker. The new vessel, which is scheduled for delivery in December 1988, is custom-desi
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on October 1988Unitor Ships Service AS of Norway is offering a free 14-page color brochure on their full range of products and services for the operational, maintenance and safety systems on vessels and offshore units. With the extensive use of color photos and text, the brochure provides a history of Unit
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on October 1988ICI Multi-Pak, Houston, Texas, is offering free literature on its latest state-of-the-art marine trash compactors for handling on-board waste. New Marpol/Annex V regulations, which become effective January 1, 1989, are generating considerable interest in the three sizes of Multi-Pak compact
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on October 1988Spain's Astilleros Espanoles SA was recently awarded a five-vessel construction contract by Cuban shipping companies and a two-ship contract by a Swedish firm. Under the Cuban contract, Empresa Navegacion Mambisa, the largest shipping line in Cuba, has ordered three 314-1/2-foot-long refrige
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on October 1988A flurry of contract awards during the first half of 1988 has caused Bardex Corporation of Goleta, Calif., to view near-term recovery prospects for the offshore industry with optimism. Recent contract activity contributing to the company's renewed growth includes designing and manufacturing
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on October 1988James E. Slaughter Jr. has joined Butterworth Tank Cleaning Machines, Inc., Houston, Texas, as sales manager with responsibility for sales in North, Central and South America. In keeping with the current marketing program in place at Butterworth, Mr. Slaughter plans to move forward with the
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on October 1988Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) recently signed a contract with Kosan Tankers A/S of Denmark to build a semi-pressurized and fully refrigerated 4,300-cubic-meter LPG carrier. The vessel will be about 322- 1/2 feet long, 53 feet wide and will have a depth of 33.7 feet. When delivered in the se
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on October 1988The new 1988-89 catalog of impellers, published by Barco Corporation of Tampa, Fla., includes two new elastomer Cam/Pumpliners. According to the company, the Barco elastomer products are extremely resistant to sand abrasion and friction caused by dry running. The Cam/Pumpliners 457 and 613,
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on October 1988Pego Systems Inc., Long Beach, Calif., is offering free color literature on the full line of Golar Marine incinerators manufactured by Team Tec AS of Norway. According to the literature offered by Pego Systems, U.S. representative of Team Tec AS, Golar Marine incinerators have been market l
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on October 1988Hollming Ltd. and Rauma-Repola Oy, two Finnish marine companies, have joined forces to make the best use of their trade names. In the future, the production of Aquamaster propulsion units and Rauma-Repola winches will take place under the same roof. Aquamaster-Rauma Ltd. is the name of the ne
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on September 1988The Cahners Exposition Group (CEG) and the Seatrade Organisation recently announced the formation of a joint venture company to organize China's international maritime exhibition, "Marintec China" and "Marintec Offshore China," which has been held in Shanghai every two years since 1981. The
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on September 1988An option to build a second 140,000-dwt oil tanker at the Puerto Real yard of Astilleros Espanoles SA has been taken up by Nacionale de Navegacion (CNN), bringing to five the number of Suezmax tankers on order at the state-owned facility in southern Spain. The 899-foot-long by 141-foot vess
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on September 1988—Literature Available Sal Berte recently announced the formation of Saber Communications, a Houston-based company that will specialize in the representation of high-quality products for marine dealers in both the commercial and pleasure-craft marketplaces. In addition, the company will of
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on September 1988The Shipbuilding and Metal Fabrication Technology Conference will be held on October 4-5, 1988 at the Radisson Hotel Hampton in Hampton, Va. The conference, sponsored by the American Welding Society and their Tidewater Section, will focus on new materials and technologies in the shipbuildin
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on September 1988Representatives of Waterway Communications Systems, Inc. (Watercom®) and International Telecharge, Inc., Dallas, Texas, recently announced that a contract between the two organizations has been signed. ITI will provide Watercom telephone subscribers with operator-assisted long distance serv