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on August 1986—Literature Available Drew Ameroid® Marine has received approval from Westfalia Separator for use of Ameroid DC disc cleaner in cleaning Westfalia Separator disc stacks. Ameroid DC disc cleaner is a specially formulated blend of surfactants, solvents and acids designed to remove carbonaceou
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on August 1986Owners, brokers and charterers must know before fixing if the tanker is suitable for the ports concerned throughout the world. Is the draft satisfactory? Any other restrictions regarding maximum length, beam or otherwise? And not least: What about reception facilities for ballast water and
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on July 15, 1986Phillips 66 Company has reassigned three employees in its supply and transportation division, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company. Gary J. Heinz becomes northern region manager of Phillips Pipe Line Company. He directs the operations and maintenance of the northern region crude oil an
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on July 15, 1986Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala., recently announced that it has been awarded the regular overhaul of the USS Pensacola (LSD-38). The contract, valued at $9,670,000, was awarded by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Portsmouth, Va. It will be administe
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on July 15, 1986Under a three-year contract signed recently by Honda Motor Company and Central Gulf Lines of New Orleans, a U.S.-flag merchant ship will be used to carry passenger cars from Japan to the U.S. market. The agreement calls for Central Gulf to order a new carrier with a capacity of 4,000 cars. E
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on July 15, 1986Marathon LeTourneau Company's Brownsville, Texas unit has been awarded a contract for the fabrication of a platform drilling rig by Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Helmerich & Payne, Inc. of Tulsa, Okla. The contract calls for Marathon to fabricate
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on July 15, 1986— L i t e r a t u r e Available The MK-20 omni-directional TV antenna offered by Naval Electronics Inc. of Tampa, Fla., distributors for Naval Electronics A.B. of Sweden, features three separate band elements with interference filters and an internal, changeable, low-noise amplifier utilizin
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on July 15, 1986Combustion Engineering, Inc. (C-E), Windsor, Conn., has been awarded three separate contracts for boilers and related equipment to be installed on U.S. Navy ships, the company recently announced. Under the contracts, valued at approximately $7 million, C-E will supply nine waste heat boilers
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on July 15, 1986Pekka Laine, managing director of Tervakoski Oy, has been appointed managing director of the new shipbuilding company to be established by Wartsila and Valmet. Mr. Laine has previously served as head of marketing for FINNPAP in Helsinki, in international duties in Warsaw and Frankfurt, and a
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on July 15, 1986Governor Bill Allain, chairman of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, has announced that the 1986 Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway Development Opportunities Conference will be held in Knoxville October 22-24. This prestigious conference will be jointly sponsored by the Auth
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on July 15, 1986— L i t e r a t u r e Available Cat Pumps Corporation of Minneapolis recently unveiled a line of corrosion-resistant plunger pumps featuring aluminum bronze manifolds and 316 stainless steel or Nitronic 50 wet-end parts. Durable ceramic plungers, preset lubricated seals, and unique internal
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on July 15, 1986The Sembawang Group of Singapore has announced its entry into the international salvage and towing business with the launching of a new subsidiary, Sembawang Salvage Co. Pte. Ltd. (SEMCO). The initial investment is reported to be S$35 million (about $15.7 million). The new company was formed
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on July 15, 1986James H. Sanborn has been elected president of Sonat Marine Inc. of Philadelphia. The announcement was made by Ronald L. Kuehn Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Sonat Inc., the parent company of Sonat Marine. Mr. Sanborn succeeds Stephen A. Van Dyke, who recently becam
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on July 15, 1986Marathon LeTourneau Company's Brownsville, Texas, unit has been awarded a contract for the fab- rication and modification of platform drilling rigs by Helmerich and Payne of Tulsa, Okla. The contract calls for Marathon to fabricate a new platform drilling rig designated H&P Rig 106 (drilling
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on July 15, 1986American Commercial Barge Lines (ACBL), headquartered in Jeffersonville, Ind., recently christened three towboats that it purchased from other companies. The renaming ceremonies for two of the vessels—the MV Don Stephens (ex- Miss Rosie) and the MV Al Pannier (ex-MV United States)—were held
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on July 15, 1986In accordance with its policy that diversity makes good business sense, Goltens, the 45-year-old worldwide marine diesel service organization, has undertaken a number of projects in fields beyond a strictly marine environment, but in areas in which Goltens is equally at home. The firm's lat
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on July 15, 1986Jackson A. Baker has been promoted to the new position of vice chairman for Sea-Land Service, the principal operating unit of Sea- Land Corporation. He was also named chief operating officer for Sea-Land Service and executive vice president-operations for the parent company. R. Kenneth John
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on July 15, 1986George A. Lorenz, Jack T. Trotter and Kenneth W. Waldorf were elected to the board of directors of Zapata Corporation of Houston at the recent annual stockholders' meeting. All will serve three-year terms expiring in 1989. Mr. Lorenz has been a member of the board since 1979. He retired in
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on July 15, 1986National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has announced the appointment of Janice S. Shanklin to the position of director, Information Systems. In this capacity, she reports directly to R. H. Vortmann, president, who said, "This will provide a single, company-wide focus for all data
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on July 15, 1986A free brochure is being offered by S.S. White Industrial Products on their line of havy-duty flexible reach rods, available to the marine industry for remote valve control up to 40 feet from the valve site. S.S. White Industrial Products' pre-lubricated heavy-duty flexible reach rods have b