Short 1982Peter Articles
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on December 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company of Jacksonville, Fla., has announced the appointment of Donald W. Jett as vice president-contracts and administration. He joined the company in 1977 as chief engineer, and has been involved significantly in the overall operation of the firm.
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration has entered into an $860,000 costshared research contract with the Engine and Compressor Division of Transamerica Delaval Inc., Oakland, Calif., to measure the performance levels of emulsified fuel oil-water mixtures used to power diesel engines. MarAd's share wi
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on December 1980James W. Church has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director of project engineering. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval architects and marine engineering with offices in New York, Washington, and Galveston.
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on December 1980Several organizational changes were recently announced by Ellsworth Peterson, president of Peterson Builders, Inc., located in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Ed Propsom has been promoted to vice president of operations. He joined PBI in 1942, and with the execption of a few years in the Marine Corps du
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on December 1980A contract to enlarge Bayou Chene and the Avoca Island Cutoff channel has been awarded to T.L. James & Company, Inc. of Ruston, La., by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Col. Thomas A. Sands, New Orleans District Engineer, noted in making the award that the work will enable shipyards at Mor
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on December 1980Dome Petroleum Limited, Nissho- Iwai Corporation, Chubu Electric, Kyushu Electric, Osaka Gas, and Toho Gas recently announced, after a series of discussions in Japan and Canada, that they have concluded a letter of intent for the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Japan. Und
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on December 1980A contract for approximately $9 million to overhaul the frigate USS Edward McDonnell (FF- 1043) was awarded by the U.S. Navy recently to Bath Iron Works, a Congoleum company. The ship, commissioned in 1965 are now homeported in Mayport, Fla., is scheduled to arrive at the Bath, Maine, shipy
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on December 1980The multipurpose, deck cargo landing craft Sea Hawk (pictured above) is the eighth design of its kind of various sizes from the Miami, Fla.-based James S. Krogen and Company, Inc., naval architects, for use on the rugged Alaskan coastline. Built by the Nichols Boat Works of Hood River, Ore.
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on December 1980Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. in Singapore recently completed and delivered another jackup rig to Pool Company of Houston. Named Pool Rig 144, the 160-foot-water-depth jackup was towed to its location in the Arabian Gulf to operate for ARAMCO. The platform consists of a triangular-
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on December 1980Vincent D. Tibbetts, president of Boston Fuel Transportation, Inc., has announced the signing of a contract with Jeffboat, Inc. of JefFersonville, Ind. for the construction of two 40,000-barrel coastwise petreloum barges for Grade A and below products. The contract calls for the construction
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on December 1980Port of Portland (Oregon) Commission president Joseph M. Edgar recently announced the appointment of a citizens task force to aid Port staff in the preparation of a master plan to guide the development of Port marine terminals through the year 2000. He named Robert F. Wallace, chairman of t
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on December 1980The 132,597-dwt bulk carrier Horyu Maru, which was constructed at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered to her owner, Nippon Kisen Co., Ltd., recently. The ship will be placed in service between Japanese ports and overseas ports in Australia, Africa, and the North American West C
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on December 1980New England Electric System of Westboro, Mass., has announced plans for the construction of a 655-foot coal-carrying ship at General Dynamics' Quincy Shipbuilding Division. The $60-million vessel is the first of its type to be built in the United States in more than 25 years. The coal carrier
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on December 1980Seaspan International Ltd. of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, recently took delivery of the Seaspan Rigger, a new log barge (pictured above) that was commissioned by Mrs. William Sloan, wife of the the president of Pacific Logging Company Ltd. Designed by Robert Allen Ltd. to load and carry bu
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on December 1980Ogden Marine Indonesia, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden Marine, Inc., New York, has applied to the Maritime Administration for conconstruction- differential subsidy (CDS), and amended its 1975 application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three liquefied natural ga
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on November 15, 1980MacGregor Land & Sea, Inc. has appointed Maxwell S. Graham to the post of operations manager of its New York area service station. Being the nation's largest port, this assignment is a key position in MacGregor's rapidly expanding marine service network. Not only will Mr. Graham direct a te
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on November 15, 1980Bernard Ambroseno is the newly elected president of the Wild Goose Association, an international organization for individuals with a common interest in Loran. He comes to the office well equipped with a background rich in Loran work. He is currently the Loran product manager for navigation
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on November 15, 1980Brown Marine Service, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one single-skin tank barge and one double-skin tank barge. The single- skin barge will have a 20,000- barrel capacity; the double-skin bar
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on November 15, 1980The bid opening date for the Maritime Prepositioning Ship has been extended from November 18, 1980 to January 19, 1981, to permit additional time for the preparation of bids. The Maritime Administration originally extended the invitation for sealed bids on the first two vessels in this new
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on November 15, 1980The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application by Parker Towing Co., Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing 33 hopper barges, two doubleskinned petroleum tank barges, one towboat, and the reconditioning of two towboats and four used hopper