Short 1982Peter Articles
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on June 15, 1980AAT Communications Corporation, headquartered in Staten Island, N.Y., has announced the availability of Wesmar marine products, including scanning sonar, Loran C, and satellite navigation equipment. In addition to the Wesmar line, AAT also supplies and services marine communications and nav
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on June 1980Four new assistant vice presidents have been appointed by International Marine Coatings Division of International Paint Company, Inc., New York City. The announcement was made by Wm. Norman Duncan, vice president and general sales manager. He said the appointments were made to establish great
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on June 1980Dennis Derby has joined Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division as Northeast regional marketing manager, according to a recent announcement by Robert G. Homan, senior vice president and general manager for the division. Mr. Derby will manage the sales and marketing activities in Cro
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on June 1980Ron H. Wright has been appointed vice president of engineering for the Gyroscope unit of the Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation, Edwin D. Decker, vice president and general manager of the unit, announced. Mr. Wright, who had been vice president of antisubmarine warfare and navigation and
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on June 1980P. Takis Veliotis, General Dynamics' executive vice president and general manager of its Electric Boat Division, has been elected to the corporation's board of directors. Mr. Veliotis is responsible for the company's Electric Boat Division operations at Groton, Conn, and Quonset Point, R.I.
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on June 1980P r o g r e s s i v e Shipbuilders and Fabricators, Inc. of Houma, La. recently delivered the aluminum crew/supply boat Port Arthur to Port Arthur, Inc., also of Houma. The 110-foot boat has a beam of 24 feet and depth of 10 feet 6 inches. She is able to carry 63 passengers and a crew of fiv
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on June 1980Joseph F. McGoldrick, chairman and chief executive officer, John W. McGrath Corporation, has been elected a member of the board of directors of Barber Steamship Lines, Inc. In making the announcement, Edward J. Barber, chairman of Barber Steamship, commented: "Mr. McGoldrick adds a new dimensi
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on June 1980B&W Shipyard and B&W Shipbuilding Services have signed a contract with the shipyard of Tsakos Industrias Navales in Montevideo, Uruguay for construction of B&W trawlers under license. A few years ago, B&W Shipyard entered the Uruguay market with a new type of stern trawler of about 300 dwt an
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on June 1980Maryland Port administrator W. Gregory Halpin has announced the appointment of Frank L. Hamons Jr. as project managerharbor development for the Maryland Port Administration, Baltimore. Mr. Hamons will be directing his energies toward the single most critical area of attention in the Port of B
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on June 1980SCNO Barge Lines, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., has announced the election of John R. McKenzie to the position of executive vice president. Fred S. Sherman, president of SCNO, in making the announcement, stated "that the company has a long-term commitment to fulfill the transportation needs of ship
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on June 1980Capt. Alan F. Hobbs, with extensive experience in offshore marine operations, has joined IMODCO's London staff in a marketing and business development capacity. An E n g l i s h citizen, Captain Hobbs comes to IMODCO, the pioneer Single Point Mooring (SPM) company headquartered in Los Angel
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on June 1980The Port of Albany has awarded a $5.5-million contract to the Edward B. Fitzpatrick, Jr. Construction Corporation of Williston Park, N.Y. for the reconstruction of a 1,500-foot petroleum terminal. The major portion of the contract is being- funded by the State of New York. The project inclu
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on June 1980Cargo Carriers, Inc., a water transportation subsidiary of Cargill Incorporated of Minneapolis, recently announced plans to spend about $2.5 million to increase bargebuilding capabilities 50 percent at its plant in Pine Bluff, Ark. When the project is completed in late fall 1980, the barge-ma
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on June 1980Capt. Robert C. Engram, USN (ret.) of Gulf p o r t , Miss., was named a vice president of Ryan- Walsh Stevedoring Company, Inc. recently by that firm's board of directors. Captain Engram joined Ryan- Walsh in 1978, and has since been assigned to special projects development, generally in th
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on June 1980Frank J. Murphy, president of American Trading Transportation Company, Inc. of New York, N.Y., has announced the signing of a contract with National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, for the construction of a series of up to six 50,000-dwt product carriers to expand American Trading
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on June 1980Robert H. Cleary has been named to head the New York office of Systems Engineering Associates Corporation. In making the announcement, Donald Tarquini, vice president of Marine Services Division, said that Mr. Cleary will oversee the division's New York operations, recently expanded to supp
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on June 1980The Shipyard Group of J. Ray McDermott & Company, Inc., New Orleans, has added a 5,000-ton drydock to its Morgan City (La.) Division facilities. The new dock, built in Brazil, has the capacity to lift most large offshore barges or to accommodate four smaller vessels simultaneously. It is 25
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on June 1980Twin Disc, I n c o r p o r a t e d of Racine, Wis., a leading manufacturer of marine transmissions in the 70 to 1,600 horsepower range, has recently prepared new literature that is available upon request. Bulletin 319-MR describes the complete line of 14 marine transmissions. In addition, a
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on June 1980The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application from Matson Navigation Company, San Francisco, for a Title XI mortgage guarantee to aid in financing the reconstruction of the roll-on/roll-off trailership Lurline. The reconstruction of the ship, to be performed by Sun Sh
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on June 1980Marathon Oil Company, Findlay, Ohio, announced recently that its newly formed subsidiary, Marathon Marine Inc., has awarded contracts to Galveston Shipbuilding Company of Galveston, Texas for the construction of two deepnotch oceangoing barges. The barges, which are scheduled for delivery i