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on May 15, 1985Olof I. Lundberg has been reappointed for a second six-year term as director general of the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT), headquartered in London. He has been director general of INMARSAT since its creation in 1979. Prior to joining the Organization he was with t
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on May 15, 1985Marcel P. Joseph has been elected executive vice president of Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), Washington, D.C. He will report to COMSAT president Irving Goldstein, and will be responsible for the management and operations of all of COMSAT's business units. Mr. Joseph comes to
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on May 15, 1985appointed product development manager-Northwest for Simpson Timber Company. He succeeds John Gould, who is leaving fulltime employment. Dr. Bohme comes to Simpson from Champion International, where he had been director of the container technology, sales, and converting division in Minneapol
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on May 15, 1985Ned A. Smith has been promoted to senior vice president of American Steamship Company (ASC) of Buffalo, N.Y. The announcement was made by ASC's president and CEO, D. Ward Fuller. Mr. Smith will continue to be responsible for all marketing and sales department activities and the insurance ma
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on May 15, 1985The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has announced a new system of computer programs, called EAGLE, for use with the Hewlett Packard 9000, Series 200 computer recently installed in the ABS New York headquarters. A feature of the EAGLE system will be a program based on the "ABS Rules for Bu
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on May 15, 1985Carl M. Albero, president and chief executive officer of American Systems Engineering Corporation (AmSEC), has announced the appointment of Gary L. Weerts to the position of senior program manager, in recognition of his contributions to the firm as a senior manager. Mr. Weerts has been a pro
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on May 15, 1985The Oil and Natural Gas Commission of India has signed a contract for construction of a $16.5-million well-stimulation vessel by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. of South Korea. The 26212 -foot ship will feature a dynamic positioning system, with two bow thrusters and two stern
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on May 15, 1985Tano Corporation of New Orleans, a Rexnord company, has been awarded a $2.7-million contract addition by the U.S. Coast Guard to manufacture electronic control systems for five cutters. With this follow- on award for five shipsets, added to a contract awarded in January this year for four ot
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on May 15, 1985COMSAT TeleSystems has announced that Alan G. Korobov has been elected vice president for finance, and Myles Mutnick has been promoted to the newly created position of controller. Mr. Korobov will oversee all of TeleSystems' financial and MIS activities, and Mr. Mutnick will direct the compa
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on May 15, 1985Baldt Incorporated, Chester, Pa., has announced the availability of a six-page, full-color brochure, Bulletin 100, that details the Moor-Free Rapid Release System. This innovative computer-assisted system allows offshore rig operators to safely free a vessel from its moorings four times fast
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on May 15, 1985Michael M. Scheidt has been promoted to vice president-marketing and sales of American Steamship Company (ASC), Buffalo, N.Y. The announcement was made by ASC's senior vice president, Ned A. Smith. Mr. Scheidt will be actively involved with the planning and development of long-term marketing
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on May 1985A recent meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects, held aboard the Princess Louise I, heard a paper entitled, "Fiber Optics for Shipboard Applications," by Donald Chambers, senior project engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Anaheim, Calif. Member
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on May 1985Bromma, Inc. of Greensboro, N.C., a subsidiary of the Swedish Bromma-Smides company of The Axel Johnson Group, has secured a valuable share of the U.S. spreader market for shipboard applications. The new RO/RO-containership Sea Wolf, ordered by Crowley Maritime's Delta Line in 1983 and now und
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on May 1985Furuno U.S.A., Inc., S. San Francisco, Calif., has published a 28-page catalog of their complete 1985 product line. It covers a broad range of marine electronics for commercial fishermen, work boat operators and yachtsmen. The catalog is arranged by product category, covering radars, echosou
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on May 1985The Falk Corporation, Milwaukee, Wise., is offering their 32-page bulletin which provides comprehensive information on the firm's extensive line of crowned tooth gear couplings. More than a dozen different types in the 1000G Series are presented for evaluation complete with illustrations, de
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on May 1985Furness Withy, the British group of companies based and managed in the United Kingdom, is offering a free color folder that describes the group's structure and services and gives a glimpse into its wide-ranging interests. Since 1980, these companies have been part of the Tung Group of Hong
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on May 1985H. Peter Young has been appointed vice president of marine operations for American President Lines (APL), according to H.B. Hubbard, senior vice presidentoperations. Mr. Young will have overall responsibility for the intermodal transportation company's fleet of 16 containerships and five mu
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on May 1985The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) of London, and Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) of New York, recently announced that they have reached agreement to form a joint venture involving the acquisition by OSG of a 50-percent interest in P&O's liquefied petroleum gas
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on May 1985Bjorn Ahlstrom, president and chief executive officer of Volvo North American Corporation, has announced the appointment of Robert Bridge as president and chief executive officer of Volvo Penta of America. Headquartered in Rockleigh, N.J., VPA will direct all of Volvo's marine activities in
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on May 1985Stephen A. Van Dyck, president of Sonat Marine, Inc. of Philadephia, a subsidiary of Sonat Inc., has announced the purchase of a 244,000-barrel barge and its associated 7,000-bhp tug. This tug/barge unit will join the Sonat fleet as the Liberty (ex Satoco) and the Ocean 244 (ex Chromalloy I)