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on April 15, 1980Sweden's Brostrom, and Tor L i n e s h i p p i n g g r o u p s have launched a new joint company to manage their cargo traffic in the North and Baltic Seas and to develop feeder traffic f o r transocean services. Called Tor Lloyd AB, the company will deploy modern r o / r o ships serving mai
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on April 15, 1980The Soviet Union awarded a major offshore oil-drilling contract to a French consortium. The two Paris-based firms that won the contract are E.T.P.M. and U.I.E. The $110-million contract for the first Soviet attempt at deepwater oil drilling went to a French group that has never before suppl
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on April 15, 1980An agreement has been signed recently by representatives of the Transportation D e p a r t m e n t s of the U.S. and Canadian Governments for cooperation in the field of marine transportation systems and technology research. The two initial areas of investigation will be marine fire hazards,
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on April 15, 1980Bultema Dock & Dredge Company has announced the appointment of Richard C. Kaminska Jr. as projects manager and Ste- ven A. Wenk as manager of administrative services. Bultema, a Muskegon, Mich.-based firm, specializes in marine-related work on the Great Lakes, inland waterways, and the East C
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on April 15, 1980Motorola is offering free literature on its new Triton 20 SSB marine transceiver which has 20 crystal positions, allowing up to 20 simplex or 10 duplex channels. All marine frequencies between 2 and 9 MHz are available, and the international distress frequency (2,182 KHz) is built into each
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on April 15, 1980Sherman A. Nelson has been appointed chief corporate engineer at Trus Joist Corporation, according to a recent announcement by president Walter C. Minnick. Mr. Nelson, a 15-year Trus Joist employee, will be responsible for supervising activities of the company's chief structural engineer an
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on April 15, 1980At the regular monthly meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the attention of the members was directed toward student activities. This has been a special concern of the Section, and every year at least one paper session is d
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on April 15, 1980The 1980 General Assembly of the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services will be held April 28-May 1 at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, Rosslyn, Va. Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, will present the keynote address on April 29. Adm. John B. Ha
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on April 15, 1980A keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., initiated construction of the first of three 37,500-dwt product carriers being built by NASSCO for Union Oil Company of California. William T. Nickerson, assistant manager of new construction for
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on April 15, 1980Three senior level promotions have been announced at Seaworthy Engine Systems, Inc., Essex, Conn. The p r o m o t i o n of Thomas J. Pakula to vice president / secretary, William L. Mc- Carthy to vice president, and Martin Toyen to treasurer were made to reflect their increased responsibili
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on April 15, 1980The Tsu Shipyard of Japan's NKK (Nippon Kokan) is building two 60,000-dwt tankers for the Chief Shipping Company, with delivery scheduled for the fall of 1980. Chief Shipping Company is a joint venture of Anders Jahre of Norway and Coral Navigation Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Che
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on April 15, 1980Steve Scalzo, former port captain f o r Foss Launch & Tug Company, Seattle, Wash., has been promoted to general manager of marine operations. As part of his new assignment, Mr. Scalzo will be in charge of all Puget Sound marine operations f o r Foss as well as marine operations of Dillingham
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on April 15, 1980John P. Laborde of Tidewater, Inc. is the new chairman of the National Ocean Industries Association. He was elected by the b o a r d of d i r e c t o r s during the NOIA Eighth Annual Meeting, March 1980. Mr. Laborde, whose office is in New Orleans, La., has been active in the Association s
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on April 1980The S/S John B. Waterman is the first of three combination rollon /roll-off (ro/ro) container vessels being constructed by Sun Ship, Inc., Chester, Pa., for Waterman Steamship Corp. of New York. Delivery of the Waterman is scheduled for April 1981. Its design is very close in basic concept
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on April 1980Plans are being made for a privately owned deepsea port to be built on the lower St. Lawrence River to help handle anticipated increases in Canadian raw materials exports. The project, slated for Gros Cacouna, 175 kilometers east of Quebec City, has been under consideration since the early
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on April 1980Johnny T. Johnson, vice president and general manager f or Oceaneering International's U.S. operations, has been elected president of the Association of Diving Contractors. The election took place at the recent annual ADC meeting in New Orleans, La. Mr. Johnson has been with Oceaneering sin
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on April 1980Solar T u r b i n e s International has begun work on a fuel-saving cruise propulsion system for U.S. Navy ships. E n t i t l e d RACER (Rankine-Cycle E n e r g y Recovery), the program calls for Solar to design a system that will capture heat energy from a ship's main gas turbine engines. T
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on April 1980Robert H. Osmer has been appointed director of engineering f o r Houston, Texas-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, according to a recent announcement. In his new capacity, Mr. Osmer will have responsibility for design, construction, maintenance, repairs and engineering of the company's uni
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on April 1980The appointment of Richard H. Jones as manager, industrial products sales, in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's s h i p b u i l d i n g department, was announced recently by David H. Klinges, vice president in charge of shipbuilding. Mr. Jones is advancing f r om assistant manager, industrial pr
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on April 1980Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron recently announced that Robert Summerville has been appointed manager of all the company's service operations in the United States. "Bob Summerville has spent his entire working life servicing and repairing marine electronic communications and n a v i