Short 1981 Articles
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on April 1981The late Paul Hall, former president of the Seafarer's International Union and vice president of the AFL-CIO, has been named the 1981 recipient of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award. Mr. Hall is the first awardee to receive the maritime industry's highest award posthumously. It will be accepte
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on April 1981Honeywell Marine Systems Operations in Seattle has implemented a new Customer Support Organization designed to provide local service to the firm's worldwide service areas. "By dividing our service areas into three separate zones, with self-contained service capabilities, we can now provide mo
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on April 1981Maine Maritime Academy's newest facility, the Center for Advanced Maritime Studies (CAMS) and Conference Center, was dedicated in recent formal ceremonies in Castine. U.S. Congressman David F. Emery, James V. Day, Federal Maritime Commissioner and chairman, Maine Maritime Board of Visitors, a
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on April 1981A four-color, 22-page brochure, "Sulzer in the USA," is now available describing the company's 40 years of operation in the United States. Established in 1940, Sulzer Bros, is a subsidiary of Sulzer Brothers Limited of Winterthur, Switzerland. Within four decades, the U.S. company has built a
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on April 1981Zapata Marine Service's senior vice president- marketing, Curtis L. Taylor, recently announced several new assignments within the company's marketing group. Paul W. Hendrie has been named Zapata Marine's vice president-sales, and will assume overall responsibility for the company's marketing
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on April 1981Honeywell ELAC, Kiel, West Germany, a subsidiary of Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, has introduced a survey/sediment sounder. The new, s i n g l e - f r e q u e n cy unit, LAZ 721, can be used for inland and offshore surveys, exploration for oil, gas, and minerals, dredging operations, and for
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on April 1981The Liberian Shipowners' Council has elected Grady C. Brown as chairman of the board of directors for a two-year term, and Stanley Symon as vice chairman for a one-year term. Mr. Brown is vice president, operations and technical, of Conoco Shipping Company in Houston, and has been on the bo
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on April 1981The industrial equipment division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Sykesville, Md., has published new literature on its Fab-Master 450 and 650 constant voltage arc welding systems. These systems are designed for gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), and subme
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on April 1981Canadian Pacific intends to purchase a one-third share in Dart Containerline Company Limited, it was announced recently. The proposed share purchase will provide Canadian Pacific with an opportunity to participate in the large and growing volume of trade between the United States and Wester
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on April 1981Bailey Refrigeration Company recently announced the completion of two 60-ton water chilling plants for a U.S. Naval activity (one unit shown above). Each plant, designed and constructed by Bailey, is a complete air-conditioning package on a portable steel base, requiring only a single elect
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on April 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, has announced two management appointments. Larry Ridgon has been named manager of the Gulf Coast Supply Boat Division. He assumes management responsibilities for the company's supply and towing supply vessels operating in the Gulf
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on March 15, 1981A contract valued at approximately $4 million has been awarded IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International Corporation, by the Independent Indonesian American Petroleum Company for the design and construction of a Single Point Mooring terminal. To be sited in the Java Sea offshore Indonesia in 125
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on March 15, 1981Elbar Engineering, Ltd., Moycroft, Elgin, Scotland, has been appointed an exclusive manufacturing l i c e n s e e in the United Kingdom by TBW Industries Incorporated of Houma, La. In making the appointment, TBW president Robert M. Thompson said the agreement will cover the manufacture of t
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on March 15, 1981The 29th Annual Fort Schuyler Forum, sponsored by The Society of Marine Port Engineers, New York, N.Y., Inc. and the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College will be held on Saturday, March 21 on the SUNY campus in The Bronx, N.Y. The theme of this year's all-dav meeting is Fuel
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on March 15, 1981Alfred J. Herrington has been named manager of marketing ' sales at Waukesha Bearings Corporation. The announcement was made by Armour F. Swanson, president of the Waukesha, Wis., manufacturer of fluid film marine and industrial bearings and seals. Mr. Herrington joins Waukesha Bearings wit
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on March 15, 1981Bergeron Industries, Inc. has announced the delivery of the barge David B (shown above) to DBC C o r p o r a t i o n of America, Houston. Constructed at Bergeron's Braithwaite, La., marine facility, the David B, reportedly the largest inland service tank barge ever built, measures 370 by 54
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on March 15, 1981A c o n s t r u c t i o n contract expected to exceed $20 million has been awarded to Bath Iron Works by Sun Ship, Inc. to construct a 643-foot oceangoing barge for the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company. The vessel, the size of a major merchant ship but designed to be pushed by a tugboat
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on March 15, 1981Dravo Wellman Company, a Cleveland-based subsidiary of Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, has received a contract in excess of $9 million f r om Seaboard Coastline Railroad Company for expansion of a rail-to-ocean vessel phosphate transfer terminal at Tampa, Fla. Designed to supplement existing
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on March 15, 1981A.C. Brown, senior vice president of the J.J. Henry Co., Inc. and general manager of the Moorestown Production Division, has announced the opening of a branch office in San Diego. The new facility will be fully coordinated with the firm's Production Division headquarters in Moorestown, N.J.
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on March 15, 1981Communications A s s o c i a t e s, Inc., Huntington Station, N.Y., has announced the Digiscan® family of microprocessor-based SSB transceivers for the international and U.S. Government markets. The first transceivers to offer total, simplified keyboard control, Digiscan is available in out