Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on January 1980The Fourth British Columbia Towboat Industry Conference will be held at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia, March 21-22, 1980. The theme of the conference this year will be "The Tug and its Environment." The meeting will be sponsored by the Council of Marine Carriers and B.C. Tow
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on January 1980Anthony L. Kucera has been elected president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., Arlington, Va., succeeding James B. Potter Jr., according to William A. Creelman, AWO chairman of the board. AWO represents the nation's barge and towing industry. Mr. Creelman said, "We thank Mr. Potter
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on January 1980The Western Strait, a highly sophisticated 185-foot geophysical research vessel with an SCR Diesel Electric propulsion system, has been delivered to Western Geophysical Company by Mangone Shipbuilding Company, a subsidiary of Stewart and Stevenson Services, Inc. Constructed at the Mangone
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on January 1980The development of a standardized general cargo ship to help meet the future requirements of the U.S. merchant marine would yield substantial benefits to ship operators, shipbuilders and the Government, according to a study released recently by the Maritime Administration. Series production
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on January 1980PPG Industries has begun the launching of 14 new Hillman chemical barges, customed designed to carry caustic soda shipments from PPG's expanded plant in Lake Charles, La. The first barge was launched recently, and all the r e m a i n i n g v e s s e l s are scheduled for delivery before the
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on January 1980Two new, diesel-powered, 35,- 000-deadweight-ton product tankers have been ordered by Chevron Transport Corporation, San Francisco, Calif., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of California, f o r service in the company's international trades. The vessels, which will be built by Mitsubishi
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on January 1980The Group managing director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd. of England declared recently that tapping reserves of natural gas readily available in many countries "is one of the simplest ways of developing new sources of energy." Speaking at the naming ceremony for the giant liquefied natural gas t
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on January 1980The Shipyard Division, National Marine Service Incorporated, will open a new division location, E.E. Ahlemeyer, president of the division has announced. The new facility will be in the New Orleans, La., area on the Harvey Canal. Located at 540 Destrehan Avenue in Harvey, the Gulf Coast branch
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on January 1980Raytheon Service Company recently published a brochure describing their new Auto-Alarm Receiver / Keyer. The Raytheon Auto-Alarm, Model RAY-1AAR/ K is a solid-state rackmountable unit designed to monitor the 500- kHz international radiotelegraph distress frequency band and actuate a continu
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on January 1980The Maritime Administration has commissioned a study to determine whether wind-powered ships could compete effectively with conventionally powered merchant ships, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Samuel B. Nemirow announced recently. MarAd, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, award
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on January 1980The Galveston Division of Todd Shipyards C o r p o r a t i o n is expected to deliver the first of two petroleum product barges, under c o n s t r u c t i o n f o r Montauk Oil Transportation Corp., early in 1980. The 400-foot by 78-foot by 31-foot barge, to be named Cibro Norfolk, has a cap
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on January 1980The First Pan-American Conference of Ocean Engineering, which will be held in Mexico City, October 20-23, 1980, sponsored by the Pan-American Federation of Engineers Associations (UPADI), the Mexican Committee on Ocean Resources E n g i n e e r i n g (COMIRO), and others, has decided to ext
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on January 1980The Great Congress St. & Atlantic Steamship Company, Ltd., Boston, Mass., has signed a contract with Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., for construction of a 75-foot steam launch of traditional turn-of-the-century lines. Designed by Halsey Heereshoff of Bristol, R.I., it will return B
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on January 1980Davie Shipbuilding Limited recently launched the second in a series of marine jackup drilling rigs. Mrs. Lillian Schindler broke the traditional bottle of champagne and thereby launched and christened the Glomar Jackup II. Mrs. Schindler is the wife of Marvin Schindler. manager of engineerin
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on January 1980The official keel-laying ceremony of Hull 725 was held recently at Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Hull 725, a 396- foot tank barge is being built for Turecamo Coastal & Harbor Towing Corp. of Staten Island, N.Y. Attending this ceremony were Comdr. Larry Murdock, United States Coast
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on January 1980Robert E. O'Brien, president and chief executive officer of Moore McCormack Lines, Incorporated, New York, N.Y., recently announced three key appointments of that water transportation subsidiary of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Henry W. Born was appointed inward traffic manager, A. Charle
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on January 1980Tidewater Marine's Ramey Tide, a 190-foot, 4,300-horsepower towing supply vessel, has started an 11,000-mile tow f r om the Houston Ship Channel to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Ramey Tide is towing the Wareship II, a former U.S. Navy LSD converted by Amoco Drilling Servic
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on January 1980Two subsidiaries of American Steamship Co., 3250 Marine Midland Center, Buffalo, N.Y., have each applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a s e l f - u n l o a d i ng Great Lakes bulk carrier. Both vessels are under construction at Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Stur