Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on August 1980An air-applied and spring-released clutch assembly for its line of large and medium size air winches and hoists has been announced by the Joy Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh. The clutch allows controlled free spooling of wire cable off the drum. This capability adds to the safety and vers
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on August 1980The Marine and Rail Equipment D i v i s i o n of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore., launched the barge Cape Flattery at their side launch ways on the Willamette river recently. The 253-foot covered deck barge, built for P u g e t Sound Freight Lines of Seattle, has a 4,400-ton cargo capacity.
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on August 1980Charles B. Parkhill, president and chief executive o f f i c e r of South African Marine Corporation (U.S.A.) has been elected president of The Maritime Assotion of the Port of New York. He succeeds Charles T. O'Neill, president of Jaton Environ, Inc. N. Nick Cretan was reelected executive
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on August 1980Propulsion Systems, Inc., Kent, Wash., has been awarded a series of major contracts to furnish controllable-pitch propellers, bow thrusters, and rotary vane steering gear on the large and medium class dredges being built for the Army Corps of Engineers. Both the large and medium class dredg
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on August 1980A contract to construct six icebreaking, m u l t i - p u r p o s e cargo vessels of 20,000 dwt has been signed by Wartsila's Turku Shipyard and V /O Sudoimport of the U.S.S.R. Designed in cooperation with the Soviet Ministry of Shipping, their future operator, the ships will be capable of op
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on August 1980Experience gained by U.S. ship operators With diesel propulsion will form the main theme of a two-day seminar to be held in the New York Hilton Hotel on October 28- 29, 1980. Entitled Dieselcare 80, the seminar is being organized by Intec Press, Ltd. and will follow the pattern of Intec's suc
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on August 1980John M. Donnelly Jr., chairman of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. (AWO), has announced the release of a new comparative energy efficiency report for freight transportation by truck, railroad, and inland barge. The AWO chairman said that the study, while confirming with new data previ
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on August 1980Sun Ship, Inc. has named Spencer L. French vice president, program support. In this post, Mr. French will report directly to Sun Ship president Robert H. Campbell, and will be responsible for all functions that support ship construction activities. These functions include planning, engineering
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on August 1980Hitachi Zosen and an affiliated yard recently completed two ships for Liberian owners. Hitachi's Maizuru yard delivered the 27,916-dwt bulk carrier O Sole Mio to Stellar Shipping Corporation. She is designed to carry grain and/or lumber, as well as heavy cargoes like steel coils. For handli
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on August 1980Todd Shipyards Corporation has reported improved sales and earnings f o r the first quarter ended June 29, 1980. Todd currently has a backlog of $1.5 billion, and a good earnings trend is expected to continue, the company reported. At its Annual Shareholders Meeting, held in New York recent
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on August 1980The Department of Defense has announced that the Navy's Military Sealift Command, Atlantic, Bayonne, N.J., has awarded a $4,776,000 fixed-price contract to Savannah Machine and Shipyard Company, Savannah, Ga. The contract is for drydocking, a special survey by the American Bureau of Shippin
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on August 1980Richard A. Wilson, president and chief executive officer of Agri- Trans Corporation, a major transportation and barging company with offices in St. Louis and New Orleans, recently announced five promotions in the company's management staff. Gary L. Roberts has been named vice president-fina
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on August 1980Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), Pascagoula, Miss., marked its entry into the foreign market with the delivery of the 112-foot offshore supply vessel Grayscout to Gray MacKenzie Company, Ltd., Marine Division, Bahrain. The vessel departed from Pascagoula recently to join the already siz
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on August 1980Furuno U.S.A., Inc. recently announced availability of the new Model RA-24 radar alarm. Said to offer many unusual features, the RA-24 is fully compatible with all Furuno radars up to the FRJ-100 12-inch relative motion unit. This low-cost, compact device provides collision warning by detec
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on August 1980Capt. George F. Price Jr., a career member of the staff of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation, has been named vice president of the company's Marine Division, it was announced by Lykes chairman Joseph T. Lykes Jr. He succeeds Capt. Ernest B. Hendrix, who ha
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on August 1980Capt. Ben Strickland has been appointed director of salvage operations for Crowley Maritime Corporation, according to a recent announcement by Roy D. Jurgensen, Seattle, CMC senior vice president and general manager of Crowley's Northwest and Alaska Division. Mr. Strickland brings over 30
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on August 1980Patrick Keene, director of machinery, test, and trials at Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss., has been promoted to director of operations, Len Erb, senior vice president of Litton Industries and president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, has announced. Mr. Keene b
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on July 15, 1980Houston Pipe Line Company and Valley Pipe Lines, Inc., Offshore Division, both subsidiaries of Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG), have announced plans to construct a 92-mile, 20- inch gas pipeline in state waters off Padre Island, Texas. When completed, the pipeline will be the longest
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on July 15, 1980Mangone Shipbuilding of Houston has launched a 245-foot special purpose vessel being built for Sun Transport, a division of Sun International, Inc. The Northern Sun (shown above), ABS classed A-l oil carrier Maltese Cross AMS, is a self-propelled twinscrew motor tank vessel. It will be deli
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on July 15, 1980Nedbarges Sublift B.V., shipowners of Schiedam, the Netherlands, recently took delivery in Rotterdam of the semisubmersible, oceangoing deck cargo barge Sublift Atlantic. Built by B.V. Scheepswerf "De Hoop" of Lobith, the Netherlands, the vessel is 135 meters long with a beam of 31 meters a