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on October 1983The Blue Star Line has announced the placement of an order for four new Reefer ships to be built at the Harland & Wolff Yard in Belfast. The four ships will be of similar layout and will incorporate the latest technical developments in Reefer vessel design. The 463,000- cubic-foot-capacity
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on October 1983Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash., reported today that all outstanding conditions have been met to finalize the award of a $143-million contract for the design and construction of two 252- foot corvettes for Thailand. The contract had previously been signed subject to obtaining a weapon
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on October 1983Two 120-foot by 45-foot by 7-foat deck barges have been constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., for Piling & Structures, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla. The barges, the first constructed by NABRICO for the Florida company, will be used in general construction work, carry
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on October 1983Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., announced the delivery of the 150-foot by 35- foot Star of Chicago to Star Line Corporation of East Lansing, Mich. The Star of Chicago is a Bay Queen style dinner boat with a passenger capacity of 600 and seating for 450 in two dining rooms. She is r
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on October 1983Ships fitted with Navidyne's INMARSAT ship terminal can now obtain free emergency medical advisory services by satellite. An agreement has been reached between Navidyne and Medical Advisory Systems, Inc. (MAS), to offer four months of free medical support to all customers purchasing Navidyne's
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on October 1983Personnel at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Md., recently completed a restoration of the Coast Guard Cutter Gentian, a 180-foot oceangoing buoy tender (WLB). The overhaul of the World War II vintage vessel marked the second renovation of a Class A buoy tender under the U.S. Coast Guard's
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on October 1983Atlantic Drilling Company, a member of the Ben Line Group of the United Kingdom, will receive a semisubmersible drilling rig built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd., Seoul, Korea. The rig was christened Benreoch at Daewoo's Okpo Shipyard. The $74-million rig is a Friede and Go
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on October 1983CDI Marine Company, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based supplier of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Design to private and naval shipyards has announced changes in its executive management structure. The regional management concept under which the company operated has been phased out and
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on October 1983The Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Inc., Freeland, Wash., boatyard recently completed the M/V Tiny, a 70-foot long triplescrew shallow draft tug boat. The construction of this vessel was the result of a joint venture between Crowley Maritime Corporation and the Kuskokwim Transportation Com
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on August 1983A $250-million agreement between the Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) and Ocean Carriers Inc., of Houston, Texas, to charter five diesel powered T-5 tankers was signed in New York recently. The five new 30,000-dwt clean product, icestrengthened ships will replace 25-year-old T-5 tankers
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on August 1983The American Waterways Shipyard Conference (AWSC) honored its immediate past chairman, George J. Fegert, president of Gretna Machines & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La., at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C. Mr. Fegert, an active supporter of AWSC since its inception in 1976, was presented an
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on August 1983National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., of San Diego, Calif., has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to convert a San Clemente-class tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, according to the shipyard's parent company, Morrison- Knudsen Co. Inc. of Boise, Idaho. The contract, amounting to $186 million,
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on August 1983The Midland Affiliated Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, has recently released a new four-page color brochure featuring the diversified water transportation services of its nine companies. The brochure details the specific barging services of the Ohio River Company, Orgulf Transport, and Chotin Tr
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on August 1983The appointment of Theodore J. Lehman to the position of manager, marine and industrial sales, in the sales department of Electro- Motive Division of General Motors Corporation has been announced by Warren A. Fox, director of sales and service. Mr. Lehman, formerly manager of marine sales,
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on August 1983Jack A. West has been elected an executive vice president of Genstar Corporation, of San Francisco, Calif. Based in the company's San Francisco executive office, he has assumed responsibility for its marine services group and heavy construction operations. The marine services group includes
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on July 15, 1983Marco of Seattle, Wash., primarily known as a builder of fishing boats, has signed a contract for the construction of a 75-foot twinscrew tugboat. The Shipyard Division has recently increased its emphasis in the workboat fields as evidenced by its installation of an 1,800-ton-capacity floating
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on July 15, 1983Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, La., is offering a 20-page full color brochure describing the range of transportation services it provides to the marine and offshore industries. A Houston Natural Gas Corporation subsidiary, Gulf Fleet's vessels provide service f
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on July 15, 1983Marine Drive Systems of Edison, N.J., is offering literature describing its recently announced new private label type program with certain suppliers of mediumsized marine engines. Under this program, engine companies will have the capability of offering directly, or through their outlets, a
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on July 15, 1983Frank L. Beier Radio's fact-filled 1983 brochure is available on request. This unique brochure features illustrated articles by leading electronics industry representatives on subjects ranging from satellite communications to color radar. In addition, the brochure profiles the company's broa
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on June 1983The Ninth Annual Satellite Communications Symposium will be held November 7-9, 1983, at the Hyatt Regency-Atlanta Hotel located in the Peachtree Center complex in downtown Atlanta, Ga. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., sponsors the annual symposium as a service to communications managers and techn