Short 1978 Articles
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on September 1978Donald E. Bates has been appointed sales engineer in the International Sales Group of Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries, Inc. Based in Kuwait, Mr. Bates will cover Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is responsible for distributor sales
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on September 1978General Electric Credit Corporation has closed a $4.5-million interim first mortgage loan on the Northern Metals Marine Terminal, a 40-acre port facility on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pa. The 10-year loan is secured by a 184,000-square-foot d o c k s i d e t e r m i n a l , a 24,00
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on September 1978Advertising, Public Relations and Market Research at ITT Decca Marine are now under the direction of John G. Smith. Mr. Smith will headquarter at the company's Palm Coast, Fla., facility. His association with Decca dates back to 1974, and includes market research and analysis in various pro
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on August 15, 1978J.T. Gilbride, chairman of Todd Shipyards Corporation, told the shareholders at the annual meeting- that he estimated profits for the first quarter ended June 30 would amount to approximately $1.9 million, equal to $1.28 per share. "This is the third successive profitable quarter and would ten
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on August 15, 1978A recently compiled memorandum on catamarans, prepared by the British Ship Research Association and originally confidential to its member companies, is now available for general sale. The memorandum summarizes current international design knowledge on catamarans as well as information regar
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on August 15, 1978Marine Concrete Structures, Inc., has moved its corporate headquarters to 2030 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La., Don Payne, president, announced. All administrative, accounting, engineering, purchasing and sales offices are housed in this facility. The move to its new two-story building
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on August 15, 1978Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fracture Mechanics to be held at the George Washington University, September 11- 13, 1978, will be available through the University Press of Virginia. This symposium, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, presents an overview of fracture pro
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on August 15, 1978A marine navigation seminar, jointly sponsored by Nav-Com Incorporated of North Lindenhurst, Long Island, N.Y., and Simrad, Incorporated of Armonk, N.Y., was attended by representatives of major shipping companies, tanker fleets, tug operations, commercial fishing interests, area shipyards,
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on August 15, 1978Richard Fuller was recently appointed manager of manufacturing for Alco Power Inc. of Auburn, N.Y. Mr. Fuller came to Alco from the Mixing Equipment Co., Inc. in Rochester, N.Y., where he held the position of manager of weld and fabrication departments. In his new position, Mr. Fuller will
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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