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on April 1981The first floating drydock in Texas south of Houston was launched (photo above) at the Port of Corpus Christi recently. The facility has the capacity to lift boats and barges weighing up to 1,300 tons, and is operated by Jay Bludworth Inc. The first vessel hauled out for repairs on the 108-
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on April 1981O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft recently delivered a contract to supply a hopper suction dredger with a hopper capacity of 1,500 cubic meters. The contract was placed by Heinrich H i r d e s GmbH, Hamburg. The dredger will be built to Germanischer- Lloyd class +100 A4 "Dredger" +M
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on April 1981A recent SNAME New England Section meeting was held at the Faculty Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The speaker was Lyssimachos Vassilopoulos, president of Maritech, Inc. He presented a paper titled "Stiffness and Damping of Thrust Bearings," Engineering
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on April 1981Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Wash., has reported the best year in the company's 60- year history. The company's yearend backlog, at more than $300 million, also is the highest recorded, said Frank B. Lynott, chairman. For the year 1980, Tacoma Boatbuilding had net income of $4.6 mil
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on April 1981The Krupp-Owned Buckau- Walther group has been commissioned by Abu Dhabi's Water and Electricity Department to supply a floating seawater desalination plant worth about 21-million Deutschemarks (about $10.5 million). It is one of the first units of this kind in the world, and the first comm
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on April 1981Barge shipments of grain destined for export reached a record 1.95 billion bushels in 1980, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The share of all export grain carried by barges last year reached 40.3 percent, also a record "These impressive figures a
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on April 1981The 133,361-dwt bulk carrier World Dulce (shown above) was completed recently at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen for Kingdom Company S.A., Panama. This large-capacity bulker was developed specifically to meet world industry's growing raw materials needs. Ore and coal will be her main carg
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on April 1981Now offered as an option from Gems Sensors Division, Transamerica Delaval Inc., are level switches and level transmitters with e x p l o s i o n - p r o o f junction boxes. This option is approved by Factory Mutual (FM) for Class I, Division I, Group D hazardous areas. The level switches of
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on April 1981Tracor has introduced a new Satellite Navigator. Named after the North Star and the submarines which first tested the Transit system, the Polaris SatNav is a full-feature, total-performance system at a competitive price. Its housing is sleek yet functional with a yoke that provides overhead,
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on April 1981Robert E. Curry Jr. has been named vice president and head of the Legal Department, and Kathleen Ritch has been named secretary of the Ogden Corporation, it was announced by Ralph E. Ablon, Ogden chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Curry j o i n e d Ogden in 1975, and has been vice pr
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on April 1981John (Jack) J. McCarthy has been named to the newly created position of director of sales at Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries Inc. In this position, he is responsible for all the division's product sales, including construction and industrial OEM, p e t r o l e um OEM, North Ame
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on April 1981The South Jersey Port Corporation recently awarded a contract for $5,152,500 to Raymond International Builders of Rochelle Park, N.J., the low bidder, for construction of the final 540 feet of the Beckett Street Terminal Wharf extension, Camden, N.J. This contract is part of an overall $16-
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on April 1981Wesley D. Wheeler Associates of New York City has announced that Neorion Shipyards Syros Ltd. and Peiniger GmbH have formed a joint venture company, NEPECOR, to offer shipowners internal gritblasting and coating facilities at Neorion Shipyard, which is on the island of Syros, Greece, a Medi
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on April 1981The tasks of logging ship's control commands, r e s p o n s e s , and propulsion system operation can be completely turned over to an automatic printout logging system developed by National Marine Service Incorporated. The bell logger system automatically prints engine order telegraph comma
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on April 1981A new series of welding type, fabricated valve operating stands, used to o p e r a t e valves below decks, is now being manufactured by the Marine Products Division of Hayward Manufacturing Company, Elizabeth, N.J. Two standard heights, 14-inch and 24-inch, are available. Each can be supplie
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on April 1981Cummins Engine Company offers a 12-page, four-color catalog containing specifications, design features, and marine applications for the company's latest K series diesels. Five models are available, with marine continuous ratings ranging from 365 to 1,250 bhp. The K series is available in a
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on April 1981With the high cost of energy it has become more important than ever to clean tubes in condensers and heat exchangers on a regular schedule. Goodway Tools Corporation has developed the Ream- A-Matic machine f e a t u r i n g an electric motor that turns a flexible shaft inside a nylon casing
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on April 1981Col. James G. Ton, past president of the Philadelphia Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), received the SAME Board of Directors Service Award from Brig. Gen. William T. Meredith, USAF (ret.), regional vice president and a national director of SAME, and Dr. August Pistilli
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on April 1981David H. Watts, formerly executive vice president of the company's Americas Region, has been elected to the position of president and chief operating officer of Solus Ocean Systems, Inc., Houston. He joined the company in 1965, participating as a research diver in the company's P50-foot div
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on April 1981The Galleon Agate (shown above), a 19,102-dwt cargoliner built for Galleon Shipping Corporation, Philippines, was delivered recently by the Setoda Shipyard of Naikai Zosen, an affiliate of Hitachi Zosen. She is the second of three ships of the same type ordered by Galleon from Hitachi. The