Short 1980 Articles
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on September 1980Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division has relocated its New York marketing office to expanded quarters at One World Trade Center, Suite 4903, New York, N.Y. 10048. Telephone numbers at the new location are (212) 466-1922 and (800) 221-5100. The World Trade Center office is headquar
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on September 1980Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, a Houston Natural Gas Corporation company based in New Orleans, La., recently announced three staff appointments. Jim Barrett has been named domestic sales manager and will have principal responsibility for marketing the services of Gulf Fleet's growing number
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on September 1980David A. Johnson has been named manager of the Propulsion Systems Group at Michigan Wheel Division, Dana Corporation. The announcement was made by H.L. VanderMey, p r e s i d e n t of the Grand Rapids, Mich., division. Mr. Johnson comes to his new position from Michigan Wheel's Coolidge Div
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on September 1980M.A.N. (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg- Nurenberg) AG, West Germany, and Brons Industrie N.V., Appingedam, the Netherlands, have signed a licensing agreement covering the construction and sale of M.A.N, four-stroke engines of type L/V 20/27 and ASL/ASV 25/30 with outputs ranging from 400 to 4,000
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on September 1980Chiles Offshore Limited has signed a letter of intent with Marathon LeTourneau Offshore Company to purchase an 82-SD-C self-elevating, shallow-draft cantilever drilling platform for a total rig price of $30 million. The 82 SD-C rig, designed for exploration, production drilling, and workove
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on September 1980Kunio Hashida, NYK Line's general manager in San Francisco for the past three years, has been appointed research commissioner in charge of special projects in the management coordination chamber at the company's Tokyo headquarters. Succeeding Mr. Hashida as general manager in San F r a n c
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on September 1980NKK (Nippon Kokan) will build a $56- million jacket for a conventional offshore platform off the northwest coast of Australia. According to NKK officials in New York, the contract was signed with Woodside Petroleum Development Pty. Ltd. of Australia. The company is the operator of a joint ven
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on September 1980NL Rig Equipment of Houston has prepared a fact sheet illustrating and describing the new Shaffer Multi-Ram™ multiple-size rams. The new rams are designed to close and seal on drill pipe from 31,/, to 5 inches in diameter, making Multi-Ram rams especially useful in situations in which a ta
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on September 1980This year's 19th presentation of the giant Europort Exhibition, to be held from November 18 to 22 at the RAI Halls in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will also feature an i m p r e s s i v e conference program, with simultaneous sessions occurring on several days. A "Dredging Conference" (Novemb
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on September 1980The formation of a new shipping agency, Wilkes, Wylde & Co., Inc., to operate initially in Savannah and Atlanta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., has been announced by the principals. R.M. (Bud) Wilkes, who has long been active in shipping circles in the U.S. Gulf and Southeast areas, is president
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on September 1980Maine Maritime Academy at Castine has been awarded a grant of $16,000 by the Henri Kummerman Foundation. Set up in 1977 by the president of the International MacGregor Organization, worldrenowned designers and supplier of marine cargo access equipment, the Henri Kummerman Foundation has the e
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on September 1980Dock Express Shipping, BV, a Rotterdam-based, heavy-lift shipowner, has recently established a branch office in Houston. Warren R. Wheelock, vice president responsible for operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, will be the senior manager at the Houston office. The Dock Express
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on August 15, 1980Electrologic Inc. of New Hyde Park, N.Y., was established recently by Gene Ossi, who has been associated with marine machinery f o r 40 years. The new company will provide turnkey electronic automation and annunciator console systems f o r diesel propulsion systems and diesel generators. Usi
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on August 15, 1980American Manufacturing Company, Inc., Honesdale, Pa., has promoted Mike Busichio to Eastern regional manager from his previous position as New York branch manager. The announcement was made by Joseph A. Berthelot, vice president of sales. Before coming to American in April 1979, Mr. Busichi
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on August 15, 1980James J. Murphy has been appointed vice president-marketing for the Marine Group of General Dynamics. P. Takis Veliotis, General Dynamics' e x e c u t i v e vice president-marine, who made the a n n o u n c e m e n t , said that Mr. Murphy will be responsible for coordinating the marketing a
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on August 15, 1980Transoceanic Shipping Company, New Orleans, has been designated as international freight forwarders for the whole of the United States by NACAP of the Netherlands on a very extensive pipeline project in Argentina for Gas of Estado in Buenos Aires, The largest percentage of the cargoes, mate
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on August 15, 1980Burmeister & Wain Shipyard, Copenhagen, formerly a division of the B&W Group, has now become a limited company in its own right, having a share capital of 80-million Danish kroner and a net capital of 112-miIlion Danish kroner. To supplement this, the Danish Government has granted the newly
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on August 15, 1980Navidyne Corporation announces the appointment of James H. Rhodes to the newly created position of director of corporate communications. In that capacity, he will be responsible for all advertising, public relations, and internal communications programs, according to A. Clifford Barker, com
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on August 15, 1980Waller & Associates, Inc., naval architects and marine consultants of Houston, has been chosen by American Tankships, Inc. and its parent Ingram Company of New Orleans to provide plan approval and engineering services to support Ingram's tanker construction program at National Steel and Shi
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on August 15, 1980H.L. VanderMey, president of the M i c h i g a n Wheel Division, Dana Corporation, has announced the formation of a propulsion systems group to market new systems for the increased propulsive and maneuverability efficiency of marine vessels. The systems involved in the new group will be com