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on March 1977National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., recently announced promotions in the shipyard's Repair Department, as follows: Ed Hann, formerly repair superintendent, has been promoted to general superintendent-repair. He replaces Bob Nolde, who has retired. In his new
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on March 1977TBW Industries, a manufacturer of offshore deck equipment and pneumatic bulk handling systems, recently conducted the first of several scheduled winch operator seminars at its Central Office, located in Houma, La. Smatco is one of the world's leading manufacturers of offshore deck equipment a
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on March 1977Rolf Williams, president of Anders Williams & Company, Inc., has announced the appointment of Frank A. Johnson as vice president, marketing and sales, and the promotion of Robert A. Glass to the position of general manager, marketing and sales. Mr. Glass joined Anders Williams & Company, Inc.
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on March 1977Robert E. O'Brien, president of Moore- McCormack Lines, Incorporated, Two Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004, has announced the appointment of Robert H. Jackson as director of marketing and Arthur K. Forester as general traffic manager. In his new position, Mr. Jackson will be responsible for coo
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on March 1977Great Britain's energy minister, Tony Wedgwood Benn, has announced the conditional award of offshore oil production licenses for 44 blocks to 65 oil companies. The offshore blocks are in the seas on all sides of Britain. They involve approximately 18,000 square miles in the North Sea, Irish S
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on March 1977The new Pollution Control Division of Argo Marine, a Division of Argo International Corporation, recently hosted a presentation at the New York Hilton Hotel on pollution equipment. The purpose of the presentation was to introduce the new division of Argo Marine, and to show operators and en
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on March 1977Approximately 38 members attended the recent Delaware Valley Section, American Society of Naval Engineers, meeting held at the Commissioned Officers Club of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. They heard a very interesting report entitled "Innovative Integrated L o g i s t i c s Support (ILS)
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on March 1977Konel Corporation has introduced a new totally solid-state 2-9 mHz sideband: the SSB-1022. This radio has been tailored to fulfill the communications needs of the medium-distance traveler: that boat traveling beyond reliable VHF coverage but less than truly worldwide range. The SSB-1022 deliv
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on March 1977Marine Office of America Corporation (MOAC) has formed the "European American Marine Pool" to be made up of The Insurance Corporation of Ireland (ICI) and La Preservatrice A.I.R.D., a French multiple line insurer. According to MOAC's president John A. Potts, the Pool is designed to assist the
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on March 1977Appointments to newly created posts in its sales organization have been announced by The Cordage Group, Division of Columbian Rope Company, Auburn, N.Y. William L. Hankins has been appointed national market manager, hardware, and will coordinate service to major hardware accounts, including c
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on March 1977F. Steven Carlon has been employed by Savannah Machine and Shipyard Co. of Savannah, Ga., in the position of contracting sales engineer for the industrial steel fabrication division, as announced by David H. Green, executive vice president. Mr. Carlon graduated from Virginia Military Institut
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on March 1977Atco Marine Corporation of Brooklyn, N.Y., has announced that it is now manufacturing the Waco magnetic pilot hoist under license from Walcker & Company of Bremerhaven, Germany. George C. Grimbilas, president of Atco Marine, in making his announcement, indicated that while Atco has been marke
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on March 1977Saudi Arabian ports have greatly improved the problems of congestion and berthing facilities, reported Paul Semack, president of Marine Transport Service, Inc. (MTS) of New York, N.Y., which operates ro/ro vessels with container capability between Galveston, Texas, Baltimore, Md., Philadelphi
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on March 1977John M. Wise, general manager of the Protective Coatings Division of International Paint Company, Inc., has announced the appointment of John S. Cole as manager, Southwest District sales. Formerly with Noury Chemical Co., Mr. Cole has 16 years of experience in the chemical industry, 11 of
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on March 1977Pott Industries Inc., 611 East Marceau Street, St. Louis, Mo. 63111, has announced that Gulf Fleet Jones (Ireland) Limited, a recently formed Irish corporation owned by Pott and The Jones Group Limited of Dublin, had been awarded a contract by Marathon Petroleum Ireland Limited to furnish t
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on March 1977Newpark Resources, Inc., has announced their purchase of a 50 percent interest in Bulkfleet Marine Corporation for an undisclosed cash amount. Bulkfleet was organized to design, construct and operate Dedicated Deep Notch Tug Barge Units (DDNTBU) in charter service along the U.S. Gulf, Carib
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on March 1977Svend Hansen Sr., chairman and founder of Hansen and Tidemann, Inc., ship agents, charter brokers, and related transportation services, was awarded the "Order of Good Hope" recently by the South African Government. Mr. Hansen, who is Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of South Africa i
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on March 1977Schmidt Manufacturing, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has introduced the Model BRC 4000, a unique new sandblasting system designed to blast, recover, and classify blasting abrasive. The BRC 4000 is comprised of a blasting unit, a vacuum recovery system, and a classification system, all in a single
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on March 1977Frederick L. Smith has been elected vice president of Oil Mop, Inc., it was announced by Kelvin J. Smythe, president and chief executive officer of the Belle Chasse, La.-based manufacturer of pollution control equipment. Mr. Smith graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with
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on March 1977St. Louis Ship Division of Pott Industries has announced that it now has available an additional line of FAST marine sewage treatment systems. The systems, called Mini-FAST, are USCG certified as Type II flow-through devices. Mini-FAST units are furnished as individual components with each