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on May 1992As part of a seven-point plan to revive San Francisco's ship repair industry, an amendment has been added to the city's municipal code which would make local ship repairers exempt from payroll taxes. Because of this new amendment, the Golden Gate Ship Repair Association has received a $500,0
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on May 1992The cruise vessel Zenith was recently delivered to Celebrity Chandris Cruises by Meyer Werft of Papenburg, Germany. The ship is 682 feet long, with a beam of 95 feet and a draft of 24 feet. Powered by a "father and son" four engine plant, a cruising speed of 21.4 knots can be attained. The
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on May 1992In an attempt to tap into the Port of Baltimore's export business, the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority has recently opened its new inland port. Baltimore offers shippers some major advantages when compared to Philadelphia. The Port of Baltimore is physically closer to the key industria
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on May 1992One of the world's largest manufacturers of professional natical electronic charts, NAVIONICS, of Woods Hole, has developed a new credit card-size electronic chart module called the NAVIONICS Microchart. The Microchart uses the latest memory card technology and employs "flash memory" devices
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on May 1992The World Freight Hong Kong exhibition was the setting for a series of conferences discussing the future of the global liner shipping industry in the next decade. Shipping industry executives and their customers forecasted a major restructuring of the industry, with the struggle for economic
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on May 1992Houston-based Diamond MOdeco, one of the world's largest offshore drilling companies, plans to enter the global floating production market by forming an association with Victoria Oilfield Development Ltd., (VODL), of London. VODL was established by Seatramp Inc., of London, last year, operat
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on May 1992A new nickel-hydrogen battery technology that will double the operational life of new low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems has been developed by Comsat Laboratories, a unit of Washington, D.C.-based Comsat Corp., and licensed to Eagle- Picher Industries, Inc. The new Common Pressure Vesse
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on May 1992Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) recently introduced an advanced bridge operation support system called Super Bridge, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically navigate ships and prevent collisions as well as strandings and groundings. The system is expected to help red
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on May 1992Raytheon has announced its new JRC JHS-7 hand-held VHF radiotelephone which provides communication between survival craft and nearby vessels through the use of up to 13 channels. The radiotelephone is designed for short range communications with a minimal battery power consumption. Accordin
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on May 1992Certain sizes of ships, both bulk carriers and tankers, are usually under-priced by the ship resale market, according to a new study compiled by a New York maritime consulting firm. Shipping Intelligence, Inc., publishers of The Ship Sale Monitor and The Period Time Charter Monitor, reporte
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on May 1992The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has awarded five contracts, totaling about $18 million, for layberthing of Ready Reserve Force (RRF) vessels which participated in Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The contracts, with four oneyear renewal options, provide for berthing, electric power
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on May 1992After the Philippine senate rejected a treaty that would have extended U.S. rights to Subic Bay naval base by 10 years, the Department of Defense (DOD) began planning a build-up on Guam that will eventually turn the island into the region's central supply, communications and arms depot. Bec
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on May 1992Astilleros Espanoles SA (AESA) recently announced that Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Sama, naval architect and marine engineer, has been appointed general commercial manager of the company and its group of companies. The nomination of Mr. Gonzalez- Sama was proposed by Juan Saez, chairman of AESA, t
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on May 1992The president and CEO of International Marine Carriers, Inc. (IMC), Robert G. Wellner, recently announced that the company has experienced a complete change in its board of directors and corporate officers. Mr. Wellner will be chairman of the board and other members include: Thomas F. Keenan
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on May 1992A free color brochure entitled, "A Milestone in Autopilot Technology," details the Navipilot from C. Plath. A general purpose, multi-function, microprocessor-controlled autopilot, the Navipilot V is suitable for application on all classes of ships ranging from yachts to supertankers. The bro
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on May 1992Amclean, Inc., a Miami-based coatings removal contractor, has developed an advanced waterjet system that can reportedly remove coatings more rapidly than traditional sandblasting techniques. Amclean claims the system can save shipyards as much as 50 percent per square foot as compared to sa
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on May 1992The Finnish Board of Navigation (FBN) recently ordered a new multipurpose icebreaker from Finnyards, the shipbuilding company formed by Rauma Yards and Hollming. The vessel will be used for icebreaking in the winter and will be chartered to Ugland Offshore A/S of Norway during the summer for
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on May 1992Bender Inc. of Exton, Pa., recently introduced its new RCT 3000 portable ground fault current instrument. The hand-held unit can reportedly detect current leakage as low as 1 mA and operates through the use of a nickel-cadmium battery. The unit is said to have an accuracy of 1 percent of the
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on May 1992During her keel laying ceremony, the first 600-ton module section of the MS Maasdam's double bottom was placed in the shipbuilding dock at Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. The 35-foot-long ship's keel section extends the full width of the vessel and stands 25 feet high. The Maasdam
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on May 1992Del Norte Technology Inc., Euless, Texas, has introduced the Model 2006 GPS system, one of the latest additions to its GPS product line. The 2006 is a 6-channel LI C/A code GPS receiver which comes with a built-in PC and rugged splashproof case. The system allows for flexible data logging an