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on January 1978Billy M. Ennis has been promoted to vice president of Santa Fe Engineering & Construction Co., and assigned to company headquarters in Orange, Calif., as operations manager-marine construction. For the past five years, Mr. Ennis was assigned to the company's offshore construction and pipel
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on January 1978A new marketing organization has been organized at Kockums Shipyard, Malmo, Sweden, under director Gunnar Nilsson. The new marketing section includes departments for research and development, projection, calculation and customer contact. The new organization will improve i n t e g r a t i o
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on January 1978The Jover Corporation, P.O. Box 386, Park Ridge, N.J. 07656, has been appointed manufacturers' representative for the Marine Division of Velcon Filters Inc. of San Jose, Calif., in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, North and South Carolina, a
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on January 1978William B. Hubbard, senior vice president-operations of American President Lines, and John C. Roberts, vice president-corporate development of Natomas Company, have been elected directors of American President Lines. Mr. Hubbard, who has more than 22 years of experience in steamship and int
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on January 1978Wesley D. Wheeler, president of Wesley D. Wheeler Associates, Ltd., has reestablished Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation, a company headed by his late father, which produced numerous vessels during World War II for the United States Army and Navy, leading to a peak production staff of up to 6
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on January 1978In a ribbon-cutting ceremony held in Long Beach, Calif., on December 2, Mrs. Cecelia Nettelbrandt, Swedish Consul General for the Western U.S., and John A. Albino, vice president of Stal- Laval, Inc., officially opened Stal- Laval's newest facility. The Pacific Division is the latest of fou
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on January 1978National Cargo Bureau, Inc. has announced the opening of its branch office in Corpus Christi, Texas. Capt. Billy Anderson has been appointed senior surveyor at Corpus Christi. He attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., in 1941 and 1942, and has been employed by the
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on January 1978Avondale S h i p y a r d s , Inc. of New Orleans, La., announced the appointment of James M. Temenak as marketing manager for new construction activities. The appointment supports the commitment that Avondale and their parent company, Ogden Corporation, have made to remain a leader in ship
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on January 1978Associated Container Transportation/ PACE Line has opened its own office in Toronto, effective January 1, 1978, to accommodate the growing needs of the Ontario customers using PACE Line to Australia and New Zealand. PACE Line, a partnership of ACT (Australia) and The Australian National Lin
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on January 1978"Full train testing" of an integrated Cargo Pumping System engineered by the IMO Pump Division, DeLaval Turbine Inc. has just been completed at the company's test facilities in Trenton, N.J. The "train" includes the largest rotary screw pump ever produced, powered by a 1,000- horsepower ele
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on January 1978Intermarine Electronics recently held a meeting at its headquarters at St. James, N.Y., for its dealers from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. The occasion marked the introduction of the company's new marine radar, the "Intermarine 705," which was demonstrated in operation at nearby Stony Br
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on January 1978The 90,000-deadweight-ton S/S Overseas New York, the third of four San Clementeclass tankers ordered for subsidiaries of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG), was recently delivered by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, Calif. The ships were contracted for in 1973 in antici
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on January 1978The election of Lola Grebe as a vice president of American Commercial Lines, Inc., Houston, Texas, was announced by E.D. Butcher, company president. Miss Grebe, with more than 30 years of experience in the treasury and accounting functions of American Commercial Lines, will now have overall
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on January 1978National Supply Company, major manufacturer of oilfield machinery, has promoted Virgil R. Ellis to the newly created position of product manager-production equipment. In the position, Mr. Ellis is responsible for c o o r d i n a t i n g the manufacturing and marketing of pumping units, mult
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on January 1978The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has released a report which examines the financial assistance programs administered by the six major nations to their shipping and shipbuilding industries. The study, which covers the period 1971-75, details the assistance rendered and evaluates their eff
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on January 1978Luckenbach International Corporation of 21 East 66th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021, in conjunction with its associate, Lavino Shipping Company, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa., have been appointed agents for the Cuban fishing fleet in the United States. An agreement between the Cuban Gov
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on January 1978Inland Oil and Transport Company has named J.W. Huls as its new marketing manager-water transportation. The announcement was made by Herbert Wolkowitz, president of the St. Louis, Mo.- based barge line. Mr. Huls has over 15 years of intermodal transportation experience, most recently as tra
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on January 1978Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc. of Akron, Ohio, has opened a new warehouse service center in Seattle, Wash., and has named M & K Sales Co., Seattle, as manufacturer's representative serving Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, Canada. Moffitt, a leading distributor of marine bearings, will esta
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on January 1978The Pascagoula Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers met recently at the TiKi Restaurant in Gautier, Miss., to hear a paper by Dr. Dean Rains of the Advanced Programs Group of Ingalls Shipbuilding. The paper discussed the Air Capable variants of the DD963-class ships and the us
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on January 1978The Propeller Club of the United States has announced its 43rd Harold Harding Annual Maritime Essay Contest for High School Students, and its Second National Maritime Essay Contest for College Students. Capt. Robert E. Hart, president of The Propeller Club Port of New York, stated that the