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on December 1977The Maritime Administration's Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert R. Casey has approved in principle the application by Union Mechling Corporation for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of 50 covered hopper barges and eight tank barges. The vessels are designed for transp
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- Second Generation LNG Carriers Subject Of Paper Presented At ASNE Pascagoula Section Meeting page: 49
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on December 1977The Pascagoula Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers met recently at the TIKI Restaurant in Gautier, Miss. A cocktail hour preceded a business meeting, which was chaired by A.C. LiCausi, Section chairman. During the technical session which followed, Alan Nierenberg of the Advance
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- Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section Hears Three Technical Papers During Fall Meeting In Ann Arbor page: 52
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on December 1977The Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers convened its fall meeting at the Ann Arbor Inn in Ann Arbor, Mich. A record turnout for the Section of 266 participants made the occasion a very lively one. Many of the registrants were students in
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on December 1977IMODCO, pioneer offshore marine terminal systems company, a division of Amtel, Inc., has received a contract of several million dollars from Petrobras, national oil company of Brazil, for the engineering and design of a Single Point Mooring (SPM) terminal. It is for speedy installation in t
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on December 1977E.L. Shannon Jr., president of Santa Fe International Corp., Orange, Calif., has announced that development drilling has started in Thistle Field in Block 211/18 in the North Sea. Mr. Shannon said the first production well began drilling October 27, deepening a hole previously drilled to ab
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on December 1977Barney Evans, widely known as a PR specialist in the maritime field, recently took early retirement from Crowley Maritime Corporation and has opened his own public relations consulting firm at 215 Market Street, Suite 530, San Francisco, Calif. 94105. He served with the Crowley organization,
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on December 1977Zapata Corporation has announced that its subsidiary, Zapata Seafoods, Inc., has completed arrangements establishing a tuna fishing joint venture in Costa Rica with a group of private investors. The diversified natural resources company said that the primary joint venture firm is Pescamar De
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on December 1977Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa. 19013, has formed a new department — New Construction Estimating, Budgeting & Cost Analysis — and appointed H. Peirce Brawner Jr. manager of the new department, reporting to the president. The new department will be responsible for providing a
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on December 1977Richard F. O'Boyle, vice president- sales of the Western Hemisphere of Magnus Maritec International, Inc., 150 Roosevelt Place, Palisades Park, N.J. 07850, has announced that rapid expansion of sales activities has resulted in three promotions. Arthur W. Sievert has been promoted to sales s
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on December 1977Over 200 members and guests attended the recent annual California Sections joint meeting of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at the Highlands Inn, Carmel, Calif. The initial paper was presented by Douglas C. MacMillan, Fellow, SNAME, on "Improvements in the Ship Design P
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on December 1977The Honorary Consul for Norway, Georg K. Thestrup, has officially opened UNITOR Ships Service's new office and warehouse facilities in Port Jersey Industrial Center. The company's operations in the USA have increased substantially in the past few years, and the company realized the need to
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on December 1977Burmeister & Wain American Corporation, One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004, has announced that Belcher Oil Company, headquartered in Miami, Fla., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coastal States Gas Corporation, of Houston, Texas, signed an agreement with Burmeister & Wain of Copenhage
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on December 1977Jean Fitzgerald, president of Tracor Marine, Inc., Port Everglades, Fla., has been elected president of the Southeast Shipyard Association. Tracor Marine, Inc. is a marine technical services organization which maintains an industrial shipyard and fleet of oceanographic research vessels. The
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on December 1977M. Roger Eshelman has been appointed director of engineering for Tenneco's Newport News Industrial Corporation (NNI). Mr. Eshelman will direct corporation engineering, design and quality assurance for NNI. A native of Indiana, Pa., Mr. Eshelman is a 1961 graduate of the University of Pittsb
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on December 1977Robert J. Fortier has been appointed director-corporate advertising and marketing communications at Combustion Engineering, Inc., it was announced by William J. Connolly, corporate vice president, marketing and communications. Mr. Fortier formerly was manager of corporate advertising at C-E
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on December 1977On October 12 and 13, the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE), in cooperation with the Naval Sea Systems Command and the Chief of Naval Research, held its first technical symposium dedicated to Combat Systems Design, Acquisition, and Installation. The symposium was held at the Naval
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on December 1977Seatrain Shipbuilding Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of Seatrain Lines, Inc., has announced the appointment of Edward P. Hellenbrecht as chief marine engineer. In making the announcement, John Serrie, president of the company, said: "Mr. Hellenbrecht will be responsi
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on December 1977Dr. Charles O. Heller, president of CADCOM, Inc., Annapolis, Md., has announced the appointment of F. William Helming as program director for CADCOM's Washington, D.C. office. In his new position Mr. Helming will have responsibility for sales and marketing, liaison with Government and comme
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- Frankel Elected President Of IMODCO page: 30
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on December 1977Bernard Frankel has been elected president of IMODCO, 10960 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024, rapidly expanding offshore marine terminal systems division of Amtel, Inc., it was announced by Amtel chairman / president Jerome Ottmar, who had previously also held the top IMODCO po
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on December 1977Perko, Inc. has just released their new 1978-79 full line Catalog- #230. This edition illustrates and describes thousands of marine lights, hardware and accessories for boats and ships of all types and sizes, including scores of new and improved products introduced in recent months. The new