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on March 1980A $2-million expansion of the Nashville Bridge Company Shipyards, Ashland City, Tenn., was announced recently by A1 Zang, president of NABRICO. Mr. Zang said the expansion will increase the company's production in Ashland City by as much as 15 percent, and will provide NABRICO with the capabi
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on March 1980Webb Institute of Naval Architecture recently announced the Jeremy B. Blood Research Assistantship in Marine Engineering. Jeremy B. Blood, class of 1922, was professor of marine engineering at Webb Institute from 1926 through 1946. He subsequently headed the Department of Marine Engineering
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on March 1980Richard R. McKay, president of Adams & Porter Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas, has announced the addition of Hugh T. Wilson to the firm. Mr. Wilson, with more than 25 years of industry experience, joined the organization in January of this year. For the past 11 years, he was with Highlands
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on March 1980The election of John F. Bandon to the position of vice president and general manager of Curtis Bay Towing Co. of Pennsylvania was recently announced by Malcolm W. MacLeod, president. Mr. Bandon succeeds the former manager of Curtis Bay's Philadelphia, Pa.-based operation, Eric W.L. Heeley,
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on March 1980A 43.5-million Canadian dollar agreement was signed recently for the purchase of an oversized Panamax floating dock for Halifax Shipyards of Nova Scotia. The new dock will be capable of handling all types and sizes of vessels up to 115,000 dwt, and when commissioned will enable Halifax Ship
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on March 1980TANO Corporation, New Orleans, La., has been awarded a $2,852,000 contract by Avondale Shipyards, Inc. to provide centralized control and monitoring systems for the three containerships Avondale is currently building for American President Lines Ltd. The ships, which will be powered by large,
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on March 1980McDermott Norge, a division of Oceanic Contractors, Inc., which is a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., has received a letter of intent for a $100-million contract with Amoco Norway Oil Company. McDermott Norge will act as the prime contractor for the fabrication of production/compres
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on March 1980Practical information on using combustion to combat oil spills is contained in a report released recently by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Laboratory (operated by Battelle Memorial Institute). The purpose of the report is to provide decision-makers with information they can use
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on March 1980Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. announced that a branch office in Houston, Texas, has been opened for its Offshore Sy°+ems & Services organization. Named as manager of the new office at North Belt Place Three, 340 North Belt East, is James E. Lucas. Prior to assuming his new post, Mr. Lucas was
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on March 1980The National Maritime Council, Washington, D.C., recently announced two top level appointments. Edward Chick, senior vice president/Africa Division, F a r r e l l Lines, New York, was named National Shipper Advisor Coordinator for the entire NMC, serving as liaison with all four NMC Regional
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on March 1980North Sea weather is expected to produce some 273 days in any one year officially described as bad (mist, rain, fog, snow, ice), 49 "marginal," and 43 "fair or good" days. Because of this weather pattern, outlined by P.H. Barton (divisional) manager, Marine Offshore Division, (GEC), in his ope
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on March 1980The El Rey, Trailer Marine Transport Corporation's fourth triple-deck barge, departed Jacksonville, Fla., on January 18 for its maiden voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The El Rey (shown above), the final in a series of four mammoth triple-deck barges, was built in Portland, Ore., by the Marin
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on March 1980Two vice presidential appointments have been announced in the Inland Waterways Services Division of Texas Gas Transmission Corporation, Jeffersonville, Ind. Kenneth W. Peters has been named vice president of finance at the division level, while Robert W. Kilroy has been appointed vice preside
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on March 1980Solus Ocean Systems have made the following executive appointments as the first part of a planned corporate reorganization to transfer the company's Europe and West Africa headquarters from Hounslow, Middlesex to Aberdeen, Scotland. Colin James has been appointed, manager, unmanned submersi
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on March 1980Capt. James E. Kaune, USN (ret.), has been appointed assistant general manager of the San Francisco (Calif.) Division of Todd Shipyards, according to Carl R. Meurk, Group vice president-West Coast, Todd Shipyards Corporation. Captain Kaune joins the Todd organization after an outstanding Na
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on February 15, 1980Riverway Shipyard Co., Grafton, 111., recently delivered a new towboat to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, at the Marietta Repair Station, Marietta, Ohio. The towboat Plant 69 measures 50 feet long by 16 feet wide by 5 feet high, with an operating draft of 3 feet 0 inc
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on February 15, 1980The Flow Control Division of Rockwell International Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., has introduced a new generation of highpressure high-temperature forged steel globe valves. Incorporating modern technology and materials, the manufacturer reports the new Univalve® design offers higher pressure
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on February 15, 1980RCA Global Communications, Inc., selected as coordinator by the People's Republic of China to conduct a marine satellite test program, recently announced the successful completion of the tests. The program, designed to evaluate China's use of the Marisat Satellite System, included a series of
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on February 15, 1980The Port of Portland (Ore.) Commission recently elected Joseph M. Edgar its president for 1980. Mr. Edgar has served on the commission since August 1973, and was president in 1977. Other officers for the nine-member board elected at the regular meeting were Alan Green Jr., vice president; Sam
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on February 15, 1980The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently announced the availability of the book "Aerospace Technology and the Marine Transport Industry." The hardbound book is the carefully edited result of a workshop-conference between the two disciplines, held in Williamsburg, Va., Dec