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on January 1980The Galveston Division of Todd Shipyards C o r p o r a t i o n is expected to deliver the first of two petroleum product barges, under c o n s t r u c t i o n f o r Montauk Oil Transportation Corp., early in 1980. The 400-foot by 78-foot by 31-foot barge, to be named Cibro Norfolk, has a cap
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on January 1980The First Pan-American Conference of Ocean Engineering, which will be held in Mexico City, October 20-23, 1980, sponsored by the Pan-American Federation of Engineers Associations (UPADI), the Mexican Committee on Ocean Resources E n g i n e e r i n g (COMIRO), and others, has decided to ext
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on January 1980The official keel-laying ceremony of Hull 725 was held recently at Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Hull 725, a 396- foot tank barge is being built for Turecamo Coastal & Harbor Towing Corp. of Staten Island, N.Y. Attending this ceremony were Comdr. Larry Murdock, United States Coast
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on January 1980Tidewater Marine's Ramey Tide, a 190-foot, 4,300-horsepower towing supply vessel, has started an 11,000-mile tow f r om the Houston Ship Channel to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Ramey Tide is towing the Wareship II, a former U.S. Navy LSD converted by Amoco Drilling Servic
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on January 1980Two subsidiaries of American Steamship Co., 3250 Marine Midland Center, Buffalo, N.Y., have each applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a s e l f - u n l o a d i ng Great Lakes bulk carrier. Both vessels are under construction at Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Stur
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on December 15, 1978Joseph L. Waldvogel has joined Soros Associates, New York, N.Y., consulting engineers, as a vice president. Mr. Waldvogel has over 30 years of experience in the engineering and management of complex marine and industrial projects, from conceptual design through construction. Most recently,
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on December 15, 1978The first Crandall-designed railway drydock to be built in Massachusetts in 50 years has just been completed by Norlantic Diesel, Inc. at their repair yard in Fairhaven. This upgrading of Norlantic's facilities i l l u s t r a t e s the belief that the New Bedford fishing fleet is alive and
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on December 15, 1978Demonstrating an electronic model of Avondale Shipyards' innovative new pipe fabricating facility are, left to right, Lee Rice president of Ogden T r a n s p o r t a t i o n , Inc., Richard Brunner, executive vice president of Avondale, and Albert Bossier, president of Avondale. Looking on i
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on December 15, 1978Gerald A. Plank has been appointed supervisor of operations and diving for Crowley Environmental Services Corporation, Seattle, Wash., according to an announcement by Barry Paulsen, CES Northwest Division general manager. Mr. Plank has nearly 10 years' experience in underwater construction,
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on December 15, 1978The Programme Committee for the Sixth International Conference on Liquefied Natural Gas to be held in Kyoto, Japan, April 6- 11, 1980, invites proposals for papers. The main themes of the five-day conference, which also includes parallel Workshop Sessions and an Exhibition, will be: "LNG an
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on December 15, 1978At an i n t e r n a t i o n a l two-day conference on Operational Aspects of Propulsion Shafting Systems in London on May 21 and 22, 1979, sponsored by the Committee on International Co-operation on Marine Engineering Systems (ICMES) and the Institute of Marine Engineers (IMarE), speakers f
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on December 15, 1978Samuel T. Rugh has been appointed Bell Saturation manager for SeaTec International, Ltd., Gloucester, Mass., William T. Jebb, president, announced. Mr. Rugh is a former member of the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team and more recently, diving superintendent of Bell Systems for Oceaneerin
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on December 15, 1978H. Erich Nietsch has been appointed marketing manager of the Pollution Systems Division of Argo Marine. Mr. Nietsch will be concerned with the worldwide marketing of marine sanitation equipment, oily water separators, oil sorbents (for oil spills), compactors and incinerators. A marine engi
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on December 15, 1978Reno Spiteri has announced the opening of his own technical consulting, marine surveying and project management firm. The firm, which operates under the title of Marine Surveys & Services Bureau, offers its services to shipowners, ship operators, ship charterers, underwriters' surveyors' or
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on December 15, 1978Deputy Assistant Secretary Samuel B. Nemirow, U.S. Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, has approved in principle the application by Allied Barge, Inc., P.O. Box 717, Norfolk, Va., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the reconstruction of two flat-deck barges. The two o
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on December 15, 1978J.J. Henry Co., Inc. recently announced that Gerald R. Jones has joined the firm as manager of its Portsmouth, Va., facility In his new position, Mr. Jones will direct the total engineering efforts of J.J. Henry Co.'s Portsmouth office which specializes in developing detailed working plans
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on December 15, 1978Ronald C. Olander has been named manager of boat maintenance for Union Mechling Corporation, a subsidiary of Dravo Corporation. Mr. Olander, who has more than 20 years' experience with Dravo, was formerly planning engineer with Union Mechling. A graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Architect
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on December 15, 1978A $10-million contract to convert the St. Lawrence Navigator from an oceangoing to a Great Lakes bulk carrier has been awarded to Port Weller Dry Docks by Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. of Toronto, Canada. The work, to be known as Hull 66, will begin in August 1979, and will be completed at the sta
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on December 15, 1978The Seventh International Conference and Exhibition on LNG and LPG — Gastech 79 — will be held in Houston, Texas, from November 13-16, 1979. In choosing Houston, the organizers will bring Gastech to the natural gas capital of America, and the home of the nation's largest petroleum industry
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on December 15, 1978C.L. Graves, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., has announced the election of eight officers of the company to positions which reflect their primary functions, and recognize the realignment of duties resulting from the combining of the Mc- Der