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on May 1986—Tavrow Named Chairman The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) held its 1986 Annual Meeting Luncheon recently at the San Francisco World Trade Club. It provided PMSA members with an opportunity to review the group's activities in the past year and hear the views of Congressman Edwa
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on May 1986The 1986 schedule of Mechanical Maintenance Skills Development and Improvement Seminars has been announced by John Crane International Sealing Systems. The comprehensive four-day seminars are conducted at the company's new Mechanical Maintenance Training Center in Arlington Heights, 111. At
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on May 1986— L i t e r a t u r e Available Radio-Holland recently announced they have obtained exclusive distributorship rights to the Anschuetz Product Line in the U.S. This means that sales and service of Anschuetz products will now be handled through Radio-Holland's branch offices in the USA as well
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on May 1986At the recent quarterly meeting of the Shipbuilders Council of America, William E. Haggett, president and chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works, was reelected chairman of the board of the Shipbuilders Council of America. Hans K. Schaefer, president of Todd Shipyards Corporation, was ren
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on May 1986The 43,300-dwt containership Hanjin Longbeach (photo), a highspeed, ultra-rationalized vessel, was completed recently by Hitachi Zosen's Innoshima Works and delivered to Highness Maritime S.A. (Panama). The new ship has a capacity of 2,358 TEUs with containers stacked three high on deck. She
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on May 1986William R. Cumming, president of Texaco Marine Services, Inc., recently announced that TMSI has signed a ship management agreement with Globtik Tankers London Limited to manage the tankers M/V Brazil Pride and M/V Brazil Glory. TMSI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco Inc., is a full-servi
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on May 1986Two 215-foot by 50-foot by 14- foot split-hull dump scows have been constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) of Nashville, Tenn., for the Panama Canal Commission. The two 1,300-cubic-yard barges, the first to be built by NABRICO for the Commission, will be used in the on-going dred
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on May 1986EG&G Washington Analytical Services Center, Inc. (EG&G WASC), was awarded a new threeyear contract by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command to provide technical and program management support for the AN/SQQ-89 Surface Ship Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Combat System. Total value of the award, w
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on May 1986—Literature Available Valmet's Shipbuilding Group recently established a new engineering affiliate in Calgary, Canada, providing engineering services for Arctic marine and offshore projects mainly in Canada and the U.S. The founding partners besides Valmet are Arno Keinonen, D. Eng., and Ed
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on April 1986Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Tidewater Inc., recently acquired three 180-foot supply boats and one 190-foot towing/supply vessel at a total cost of approximately $2 million from the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. The four vessels, built in 1981 and
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on April 1986The guided missile frigate Reuben James (FFG-57) was delivered to the U.S. Navy recently by the Los Angeles Division of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, according to an announcement by Len M. Thorell, company vice president and general manager. The Reuben James, completed 12 weeks ahead
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on April 1986The Maritime Administration has announced plans for a conference on shipments of containers on barges, to be held in New Orleans, La., on April 29 and 30. The conference will be cosponsored by the Gulf Ports Association, the Inland Rivers Ports and Terminals, Inc., the Louisiana State Univer
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on April 1986Shell U.K. Exploration and Production has contracted with Bardex Corporation, through its London office, for the rig-skidding system on the Shell Tern platform in the North Sea. The system will consist of a control console and four hydraulic gripper jacks. The console will have the capabili
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on April 1986A joint venture between Snamprogetti and IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International based in the United States, has been awarded a contract by AGIP S.p.A., on a turnkey lump sum basis for a deepwater floating production storage and offloading terminal (FPSO). The system will produce crude oil fro
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on April 1986— F r e e L i t e r a t u r e A v a i l a b le Tri-Tex Marine Inc., a subsidiary of Baldt Inc., recently introduced the new Fitz-Wright Handy Elevated Lifting Package (H.E.L.P.). The Handy Elevated Lifting Package (H.E.L.P.) accompanies the worker to the job site and provides safe aerial and c
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on April 1986— L i t e r a t u r e A v a i l a b le A new acrylic adhesive, called TG-6, has been introduced by Thomson-Gordon Limited of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, for bonding its Thordon elastomeric marine bearings and bearing materials to a wide range of backing metals, including steel and nonferrous
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on April 1986Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Inc., Freeland, Wash., is building a 30-meter (99-foot), 25- knot catamaran for operation by Glacier Bay Yacht Tours, Inc., that will provide luxury passenger accommodations for 49 people in 25 staterooms. The catamaran, being built for Robert and Lori Giersdorf
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on April 1986—Free Literature O f f e r ed Mueller Steam Specialty, a division of Core Industries, Inc., has introduced the Model 721 valve, designed for installation in pump discharge piping where it functions silently and automatically as a spring-loaded check valve, balancing valve and shut-off valve.
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on April 1986M.A.N.-B&W Diesel recently published an unusually attractive new 20-page full-color brochure describing "Holeby"-manufactured generator sets. Besides describing heavy fuel generating sets and giving basic data, the brochure also addresses such topics as the "Total System Solution," and "Tot
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on April 1986— L i t e r a t u r e A v a i l a b le Conrad Industries, Inc. of Morgan City, La., recently completed the two-month lengthening and overhaul of a cargo vessel owned by Bahamas Ranger Limited of Nassau, Bahamas. The project was valued at a quarter of a million dollars. The cargo ship, the