Short 1992 Articles
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- U n i t o r To Conduct U n i q u e R e f r i g e r a t i o n T r a i n i n g On G a s Tanker page: 77
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on April 1992Unitor A.S., of Kolbotn, Norway, has entered into an agreement with the Hanseatic Marine Training School in Cyprus to train Unitor marine refrigeration service technicians onboard Hanseatic's combined training ship/gas carrier Annabella. The company also operates its own training centers in
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on April 1992Under an agreement with Statoil, Jotun Protective Coatings A/S, Norway, is supplying protective coatings and technical services for all three Gullfaks and Veslefrikk offshore platforms. The value of the two-year contract is over $ 1,553,000 (10 million Norwegian kroner) and this agreement ma
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on April 1992Stemming from the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990, tanker operators are transferring rising liability insurance premiums and the costs of covering Coast Guard spill response plans to their charterers. As a result of U.S. legislation, the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners
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on April 1992The American Waterways Operators (AWO) recently submitted comments on the Coast Guard's proposal to impose user fees for vessel inspection as mandated by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. AWO's comments were developed with considerable member input and focused primarily on the
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on April 1992Midland Manufacturing Corp. of Skokie, 111., has developed a portable liquid level overfill alarm system for tank barges, equipped with a barge inlet connector, per API Recommended Practice 1125. The Model B-599 is intrinsically safe and self-contained, providing high level and overfill alar
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on April 1992Treuhandanstalt, the agency charged with privatizing the assets formerly held by the East German Government, recently said it will tion plug the B-598 into i Barge Inlet Connectoi Handycheck™univer: tem tester provides v overfill level or open circuit; green LED for closed circuil overfill
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on April 1992At its recent annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Chemical Carriers Association (CCA) elected its leadership for the new term. The CCA is the international association of operators of chemical tankers in U.S. trade, with full members being companies that own or operate chemical t
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on April 1992Miller Electric Mfg. Co. of Appleton, Wisconsin, has produced a new 10-page brochure describing its XMT series inverters for multiprocess welding now with Auto-Link, a unique Miller feature that adjusts primary power linkage automatically. The inverters allow operators to power up and weld u
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on April 1992The Deerberg company is actually two companies which are Deerberg Systems and Deerberg Trading. These two companies each provide services to the cruise industry, although in totally different areas. Deerberg Systems deals with technical analysis, design, and supply of complete or par^ al con
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on April 1992Trinity Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La., was recently awarded contracts from Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Hicksville, N.Y., to build two, 467-foot, ocean-going barges with double hulls to meet the OPA 90 requirements. Each barge will be ca
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on April 1992Reflecting a growing international interest in commercial maritime safety and management, the USCG is planning to establish its first team of marine pollution prevention and response, port safety and port security experts for training foreign maritime agencies. The Marine Safety Training and A
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on April 1992Bisso Marine Company, Inc. of New Orleans, La. recently introduced a new tug into its fleet of vessels. The 110-foot tug Darlene Bisso was formerly the Coast Guard icebreaker Mohican. The entire hull of the vessel was gutted, and the house totally reconstructed from the main deckline up wit
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on April 1992The HMS Vanguard, a Trident ballistic missile submarine, was recently launched for the UK's Royal Navy using the Syncrolift shiplift installed at the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (VSEL). The Trident submarines are among the largest in the world and
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on April 1992The second annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) will be held in San Francisco, Calif., June 14-19, 1992. This is a combined event with the second Pacific/ Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium (PACOMS). One of the highlights of the conference will be the presentat
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on April 1992The New Venture, a 277,083-dwt VLCC, was recently completed by Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen. It was then christened and delivered to the owner, New Dynasty Shipping Inc. This tanker is the first of its size to be developed by Hitachi Zosen. It is designed to carry two million barrels of cargo
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on April 1992Textron Lycoming recently announced that its TF40 marine turbine has been selected to power the new Italian-designed megayacht Seawalker. Two TF40 marine turbines were sold to Lycoming's marine packager Allen Industries for installation in the new 84-foot megayacht under construction by Tenca
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- Singmarine Launches Ore Carrier page: 94
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on April 1992The ore carrier, Kamora, was recently launched at the Benoi Road facility of Singmarine Dockyard & Engineering Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singmarine Industries Limited. The contract, worth about $5.4 million, was awarded by Freeport Indonesia, Inc., a subsidiary of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Go
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on March 1992Wooster Products Inc., Wooster, Ohio, manufacturer of anti—slip safety products for ships' ladders, decks, ramps, showers, galleys, gangways, passageways, etc., is offering a complete package of literature on all of the non-slip safety products marketed by the company for marine use. Includ
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on March 1992The U.S. Coast Guard has been prompted by the contamination of oysters in Mobile Bay, Ala., with vibrio cholera to publish IMO's "International Guidelines for Preventing the Introduction of Unwanted Pathogens from Ships' Ballast Water and Sediment Discharges." Adopted last July by the Marine
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on March 1992South Korean bulk transport company Pan Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd. has begun a life extension program of its Cape-size bulk carrier and OBO fleet in response to a growing concern over the number of losses of this type vessel in recent years. One of the company's vessels, the 123,745-dwt, 1970-b