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on April 15, 1980Sweden's Brostrom, and Tor L i n e s h i p p i n g g r o u p s have launched a new joint company to manage their cargo traffic in the North and Baltic Seas and to develop feeder traffic f o r transocean services. Called Tor Lloyd AB, the company will deploy modern r o / r o ships serving mai
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on April 15, 1980The Soviet Union awarded a major offshore oil-drilling contract to a French consortium. The two Paris-based firms that won the contract are E.T.P.M. and U.I.E. The $110-million contract for the first Soviet attempt at deepwater oil drilling went to a French group that has never before suppl
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on April 15, 1980An agreement has been signed recently by representatives of the Transportation D e p a r t m e n t s of the U.S. and Canadian Governments for cooperation in the field of marine transportation systems and technology research. The two initial areas of investigation will be marine fire hazards,
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on April 15, 1980Bultema Dock & Dredge Company has announced the appointment of Richard C. Kaminska Jr. as projects manager and Ste- ven A. Wenk as manager of administrative services. Bultema, a Muskegon, Mich.-based firm, specializes in marine-related work on the Great Lakes, inland waterways, and the East C
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on April 15, 1980Motorola is offering free literature on its new Triton 20 SSB marine transceiver which has 20 crystal positions, allowing up to 20 simplex or 10 duplex channels. All marine frequencies between 2 and 9 MHz are available, and the international distress frequency (2,182 KHz) is built into each
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on April 15, 1980Sherman A. Nelson has been appointed chief corporate engineer at Trus Joist Corporation, according to a recent announcement by president Walter C. Minnick. Mr. Nelson, a 15-year Trus Joist employee, will be responsible for supervising activities of the company's chief structural engineer an
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on April 15, 1980At the regular monthly meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the attention of the members was directed toward student activities. This has been a special concern of the Section, and every year at least one paper session is d
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on April 15, 1980The 1980 General Assembly of the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services will be held April 28-May 1 at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Rosslyn, Va. Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, will present the keynote address on April 29. Adm. John B. Ha
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on April 15, 1980The Tsu Shipyard of Japan's NKK (Nippon Kokan) is building two 60,000-dwt tankers for the Chief Shipping Company, with delivery scheduled for the fall of 1980. Chief Shipping Company is a joint venture of Anders Jahre of Norway and Coral Navigation Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Che
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on April 1980Plans are being made for a privately owned deepsea port to be built on the lower St. Lawrence River to help handle anticipated increases in Canadian raw materials exports. The project, slated for Gros Cacouna, 175 kilometers east of Quebec City, has been under consideration since the early
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on April 1980Johnny T. Johnson, vice president and general manager f or Oceaneering International's U.S. operations, has been elected president of the Association of Diving Contractors. The election took place at the recent annual ADC meeting in New Orleans, La. Mr. Johnson has been with Oceaneering sin
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on April 1980Solar T u r b i n e s International has begun work on a fuel-saving cruise propulsion system for U.S. Navy ships. E n t i t l e d RACER (Rankine-Cycle E n e r g y Recovery), the program calls for Solar to design a system that will capture heat energy from a ship's main gas turbine engines. T
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on April 1980Robert H. Osmer has been appointed director of engineering f o r Houston, Texas-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, according to a recent announcement. In his new capacity, Mr. Osmer will have responsibility for design, construction, maintenance, repairs and engineering of the company's uni
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on April 1980The appointment of Richard H. Jones as manager, industrial products sales, in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's s h i p b u i l d i n g department, was announced recently by David H. Klinges, vice president in charge of shipbuilding. Mr. Jones is advancing f r om assistant manager, industrial pr
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on April 1980Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron recently announced that Robert Summerville has been appointed manager of all the company's service operations in the United States. "Bob Summerville has spent his entire working life servicing and repairing marine electronic communications and n a v i
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on April 1980A chaser (anchor retrieval device) claimed to save rig operators between $100,000 and $300,- 000 a rig year has been developed by Bruce Anchor Ltd. The features which make the patent-protected Bruce chaser of special significance as an anchor retrieval device are its ability to slide freely
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on April 1980A contract has been awarded by Phillips Petroleum Exploration U.K., Ltd. to Equipments Mecaniques et Hydrauliques (E.M.H.) for the design, supply and installation of an articulated loading column (ALC) for offshore tanker mooring and crude oil loading in the Maureen Field of the North Sea.
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on April 1980A full-color brochure is available describing the facilities and services of Port Houston Marine, Inc., Houston, Texas. Port Houston Marine, Inc. is located at the turning basin of Houston Ship Channel, and has a berth for vessels up to 600 feet long and 2 0 - f o o t d r a f t . Compressed
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on April 1980American Hydromath Company, Germantown, N.Y., recently delivered three L O A D O S C O PE Cargo Planning Computers to the American Heavy Lift Shipping Company, a division of Gulf Trading & Transportation Company; one each for the John Henry and 0 Paul Bunyan, and one to be placed and used
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on April 1980A new single-sideband radiotelephone designed for small commercial vessels, while meeting FCC requirements for use as a shore station, has been introduced by the ITT Mackay Marine Division of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Measuring less than 5 inches high, 14 inches wid