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on November 1991Thomas R. Hensley, president and majority stockholder of Service Marine Industries (SMI), Amelia, La., recently announced the following changes in ownership and organizational structure. SMI was recently purchased by Jim Miller of Oak Brook, 111. Mr. Miller will serve as chairman of the boa
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on November 1991The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reported at a recent conference that the use of double-hulled vessels may prevent from 3,000 to 5,000 tons of oil spillage from collisions and groundings per year over the next 25 years. The statement was made by Adm. Arthur E. Henn, Chief, Office of M
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on November 1991Thomas B. Crowley, chairman and CEO of Crowley Maritime Corporation (CMC), recently announced the formal withdrawal of the company's application to the U.S. Maritime Administration for $450 million in ship financing mortgage guarantees. This action follows the Administration's failure to app
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on November 1991Scale Reproductions, Fairhope, Ala., recently installed an Auto CAD system for designing. The computer, which will be used in production of scale models, will be able to use the computer files of the shipyards and designers. Blue prints can also be traced with a large digitizing table. The m
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on November 1991The president of Alexander Industries, Inc., New Orleans, La., Arthur Seven, recently announced his firm's affiliation with Welin Lambie Limited of West Midlands, England. Alexander Industries and Welin Lambie have participated in joint ventures in the past. This is, however, the first time
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on November 1991The LaQue Center for Corrosion Technology, Inc., located in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., will present a two-day training course on the "Fundamentals of Corrosion and Its Control" on December 3-4, 1991 at the Blockade Runner Hotel in Wrightsville Beach. Instruction will be provided on the basic
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on November 1991Raytheon's R70 Series radars are ideal for commercial fishing, workboats and yachts. Displays are presented in 16 levels of video on 12- inch CRT screens. Maximum ranges are 48 and 72 miles, depending on the model. Raytheon offers a selection of X-Band or S-Band, 4-kw or 10-kw transceivers,
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on November 1991Shipowners, trying to save money by reducing crew numbers, are hoping the crewless cargo ship will be the wave of the future, while scientists are dreaming of the ultimate cost-saving—a ship fully controlled by computer. Within a few years, flotillas of unmanned cargo ships escorted by one
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on November 1991The City of New York Department of Transportation has contracted marine contractors Weeks Marine Inc. to construct a ferry maintenance facility at Staten Island. MacGregor-Navire (USA) has been awarded the contract for detail design and supply of three transfer bridges, enabling service vehi
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on November 1991Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Maryland yard, Bethship-Sparrows Point, has signed a letter of intent with Morrison Knudsen to build the tunnel sections for the new thirdtunnel to be installed under Boston Harbor. The job will require 35 million pounds of steel. The subcontract, valued at over
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on November 1991Bills to combat foreign shipbuilding subsidies and to impose access fees on users of the Federal Maritime Commission's computerized shipping rate-filing system were approved recently by the House's tax-writing committee. Action on the foreign shipbuilding subsidy bill is intended to send a
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on November 1991The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is scheduled to be implemented on February 1,1992. The basis of the system is that rescue authorities ashore, as well as shipping in the immediate vicinity of any ship in distress, be informed of the distress incident and be able to assi
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on November 1991A major shot in the arm was provided recently to Brooklyn's last container terminal as a container barge service started up, connecting the Brooklyn facility with New Jersey. Service between the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's Red Hook Container Terminal and the bistate port's main
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on November 1991U.K. Chamber of Shipping, the punishing liability component of the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 could lead some British carriers to discontinue service to the U.S. In the event of a serious oil spill, the U.S. pollution act, passed in the wake of the Valdez disaster, increased liability ei
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on November 1991Representative William Broomfield of Michigan, a longtime advocate of immediate scrapping of the oldest and most decrepit hulks in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, recently introduced compromise legislation that requires the Maritime Administration to devise an accelerated, five-year scra
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on November 1991Hempel Coatings (USA), Inc., recently announced that it has completed its restructuring program, inclusive of a relocation of its U.S. headquarters to Houston, Texas. This will result in easier and better communication, improved service, along with a strategy more geared to the Gulf Coast ma
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on November 1991Many of Paxman Diesels most successful marine propulsion applications have been in high-speed patrol craft, two of which are outlined below. The most recent Paxman patrol boat success is the prestigious contract to supply propulsion engines to the U.S. Navy for its new Patrol Coastal (PC) p
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on November 1991Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc., was recently honored by McDermott Shipyards, Inc., by being selected as one of their top 10 suppliers for the year 1990. JMMS was selected out of nearly 3,800 vendors for their performance on contracts to furnish and install the complete interior accommoda
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on November 1991Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc., of Seattle, Wash., recently delivered the fourth of nine 32-foot Fast Response Vessels to Foss Environmental Services, a division of the Foss Maritime Company of Seattle. These oil-spill response boats will be stationed in strategic areas around the state of
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on November 1991Wartsila Diesel of Finland will deliver 16 Vasa 32 engines for Norwegian offshore vessels under construction in Singapore. Wartsila Vasa 32 main engines will be installed in the four tug supply vessels ordered by the Norwegian Viking Supply Ships A.S. at the Argos Engineering Pte. Ltd. shipy