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on May 1986International Maritime Associates (IMA) is preparing a business analysis of the Navy ship systems market. The approximately 200- page report will provide a very comprehensive assessment of current and future market opportunities and will be available in June. Market updates will then be issu
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on May 1986Adams & Porter Incorporated of New York, N.Y., insurance brokers and adjusters of average, recently announced the election of three officers to the positions of president, chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. David B. Adams has been elected president of Adams & Port
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on May 1986At a recent meeting of the Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held in Norfolk a paper entitled "Navy Acquisition Streamlining" was presented by Gerard C. Hoffmann. The author was recently appointed to be the Navy's Specification Control Advocate Gen
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on May 1986The Maritime Administration has announced the availability of a twovolume research report, "Micro- Computer Based Part Power Heat Balance Program for Commercial Marine Steam Turbine Propulsion Systems." Prepared by Seaworthy Systems of Essex, Conn., the program was developed to assist ship
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on May 1986—Literature Available Taylor Diving, Inc., Belle Chasse, La., a Halliburton Company subsidiary, announced the award of two new contracts and the completion of its first Gulf of Mexico underwater project for 1986. Norman Chambers, president of Taylor, said the diving service contractor has b
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on May 1986Russell G. McVay, vice president of Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., has appointed Kenneth S. Johnson as chief harbor dispatcher for the Port of New York and New Jersey. Mr. Johnson is a veteran of 40 years' experience, ashore and afloat, in the tugboat industry in New York Harbor
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on May 1986—Tavrow Named Chairman The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) held its 1986 Annual Meeting Luncheon recently at the San Francisco World Trade Club. It provided PMSA members with an opportunity to review the group's activities in the past year and hear the views of Congressman Edwa
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on May 1986The 1986 schedule of Mechanical Maintenance Skills Development and Improvement Seminars has been announced by John Crane International Sealing Systems. The comprehensive four-day seminars are conducted at the company's new Mechanical Maintenance Training Center in Arlington Heights, 111. At
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on May 1986— L i t e r a t u r e Available Radio-Holland recently announced they have obtained exclusive distributorship rights to the Anschuetz Product Line in the U.S. This means that sales and service of Anschuetz products will now be handled through Radio-Holland's branch offices in the USA as well
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on May 1986At the recent quarterly meeting of the Shipbuilders Council of America, William E. Haggett, president and chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works, was reelected chairman of the board of the Shipbuilders Council of America. Hans K. Schaefer, president of Todd Shipyards Corporation, was ren
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on May 1986The 43,300-dwt containership Hanjin Longbeach (photo), a highspeed, ultra-rationalized vessel, was completed recently by Hitachi Zosen's Innoshima Works and delivered to Highness Maritime S.A. (Panama). The new ship has a capacity of 2,358 TEUs with containers stacked three high on deck. She
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on May 1986William R. Cumming, president of Texaco Marine Services, Inc., recently announced that TMSI has signed a ship management agreement with Globtik Tankers London Limited to manage the tankers M/V Brazil Pride and M/V Brazil Glory. TMSI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco Inc., is a full-servi
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on May 1986Two 215-foot by 50-foot by 14- foot split-hull dump scows have been constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) of Nashville, Tenn., for the Panama Canal Commission. The two 1,300-cubic-yard barges, the first to be built by NABRICO for the Commission, will be used in the on-going dred
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on May 1986EG&G Washington Analytical Services Center, Inc. (EG&G WASC), was awarded a new threeyear contract by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command to provide technical and program management support for the AN/SQQ-89 Surface Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Combat System. Total value of the award, w
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on May 1986—Literature Available Valmet's Shipbuilding Group recently established a new engineering affiliate in Calgary, Canada, providing engineering services for Arctic marine and offshore projects mainly in Canada and the U.S. The founding partners besides Valmet are Arno Keinonen, D. Eng., and Ed
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on April 1986Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Tidewater Inc., recently acquired three 180-foot supply boats and one 190-foot towing/supply vessel at a total cost of approximately $2 million from the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. The four vessels, built in 1981 and
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on April 1986The guided missile frigate Reuben James (FFG-57) was delivered to the U.S. Navy recently by the Los Angeles Division of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, according to an announcement by Len M. Thorell, company vice president and general manager. The Reuben James, completed 12 weeks ahead
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on April 1986The Maritime Administration has announced plans for a conference on shipments of containers on barges, to be held in New Orleans, La., on April 29 and 30. The conference will be cosponsored by the Gulf Ports Association, the Inland Rivers Ports and Terminals, Inc., the Louisiana State Univer
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on April 1986Shell U.K. Exploration and Production has contracted with Bardex Corporation, through its London office, for the rig-skidding system on the Shell Tern platform in the North Sea. The system will consist of a control console and four hydraulic gripper jacks. The console will have the capabili
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on April 1986A joint venture between Snamprogetti and IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International based in the United States, has been awarded a contract by AGIP S.p.A., on a turnkey lump sum basis for a deepwater floating production storage and offloading terminal (FPSO). The system will produce crude oil fro