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on October 15, 1977A new 20-page, four-color booklet from Union Carbide Corporation discusses the use of vinyl maintenance paints for protecting steel and other substrates from corrosion. The coatings described are one-package systems that can be formulated from solution vinyl resins to comply with current air
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on October 15, 1977Zapata Corporation, Zapata Tower, P.O. Box 4240, Houston, Texas 77001, has announced that its board of directors has elected four senior corporate executives to new posts. Zapata said that Ronald C. Lassiter and Michael R. Naess, who have been executive vice presidents and chief operating o
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on October 15, 1977The appointment of Edward G. Ogden as chief engineer has been announced by Bernard Delannoy, executive vice president of De- Long Corporation, 29 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10006. DeLong is engaged in the design and construction of piers, docks, offshore terminals, pipelines, bridges, and oth
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on October 15, 1977Tenneco's Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., on September 14, laid the keel of the first of three ultra large crude oil carriers (ULCCs), the largest merchant vessels ever to be constructed in this country. The giant ships, to be built in the new Commercial Yard's 1,600- foot dry
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on October 15, 1977Bethlehem Steel's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard has received a contract for construction of a Bethlehem-designed 250-foot matsupported jackup mobile offshore drilling platform. The rig will be built for Teledyne Movible Offshore Inc. of Lafayette, La., and will be capable of drilling to a depth
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on October 1977Northern Liquid Fuels International, Ltd. (NLFI), Houston, Texas, has named William L. Bull Jr. director of marine transportation. Mr. Bull, formerly manager of supply and t r a n s p o r t a t i o n for Tropigas International Corporation in Miami, Fla., will be responsible for the operation
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on October 1977Keel-laying ceremonies for the first 2,000- dwt breakbulk vessel in a series of three vessels for American Atlantic Shipping, Inc., was held recently by Equitable Shipyards, Inc. at its Madisonville La., shipyard. The principals attending the keel-laying ceremonies were Paul Hancock, vice pres
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on October 1977The Alice Briley, a 185-foot supply ship built by Mangone Shipbuilding of Houston, Texas, was delivered to Briley Marine Services, Inc. of Morgan City, La., in late August. The ship will work the Gulf of Mexico out of Galveston for Briley Marine. Mangone is a subsidiary of Stewart and Stevenso
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on October 1977N.A. Philips Communications Systems has announced an advance micropressor-controlled error correcting system that links shipboard teleprinters to the worldwide Telex network. The new unit, called STB-750, installs between the vessel's high frequency radio and the teleprinter. Using ARQ, "FEC"
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on October 1977Maxon Marine Industries, Inc., Tell City, Ind., recently delivered the M/V Joe Al Jim II to J.L. Shiely Company, St. Paul, Minn. The towboat is 72 feet 6 inches by 19 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, and has an operating draft of 5 feet. It is equipped with two Caterpillar Model D353 T.A. main propu
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on October 1977Robert J. Patrick has been elected president of The Propeller Club of the United States, Port of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Patrick is president of Apex Marine Service. The St. Louis Club was chartered in 1937, and its membership of more than 370 people is made up of persons engaged in the maritime
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on October 1977Camar Corporation of Worcester, Mass., has developed a series of blowers designed specifically for shipboard inlet gas systems. The design and manufacture of these blowers is of American origin. Because of the highly corrosive atmosphere produced by flue gas, scrubbed with seawater, and the
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on October 1977The Maritime Administration has released a technical report, "Metric Conversion Study for the Maritime Administration," prepared by J.J. Henry Co., Inc., Arlington, Va. The study contains the master plan which J.J. Henry developed for the use of the Maritime Administration in assuming the l
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on October 1977In conjunction with its twomonth exhibit at the Philippine Center, 556 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y., the National Seamen Board of the Philippines will provide a free information packet to anyone interested in learning more about the growing role of Filipino mariners in the international mar
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on October 1977Hyundai Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Ulsan, Republic of Korea, and Burmeister & Wain Engineering Company, Copenhagen, Denmark, have entered into an agreement for the production of B&W diesel engines under license, and the agreement has now been finally approved by the Korean G
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on October 1977Nedlloyd Inc., 5 World Trade Center, Suite 617, New York, N.Y. 10048, general agents for Leif Hoegh & Company in the USA, have announced that L. Hoegh & Company A/S of Norway (Oslo) recently placed an order with Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan for two "Kingsize" multipurpose liner vessel
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on October 1977The Alaska, Puget United Transportation Co. (APUTCO) of Seattle, Wash., has been awarded a five-year, $39-million contract by the Navy's Military Sealift Command to resupply U.S. government installations in Alaska and along the Aleutian chain. APUTCO, a subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp.,
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on October 1977Elmer W. Curfman has been named superintendent of the marine department of The Chesapeake Corporation of Virginia, West Point, Va. 23181, succeeding the late Milton A. Paul. The announcement was made by Thomas G. Harris, vice president- woodlands of the corporation. Mr. Curfman will be in
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on September 15, 1977A Marine Discharge Control System that prevents the discharge of oily bilge water on inland waterways is described in a new illustrated brochure available from Keene Corporation's Fluid Handling Division. Features of the system include easy installation with simple piping, disposable filter
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on September 15, 1977Richard J. Daschbach of Walpole, N.H., and Great Falls, Va., was sworn in as Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) August 29 in a public ceremony at Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Honorable Norma Holloway Johnson, a judge of the Superior Court of the District of