Maritime Reporter 1981 Articles
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on May 1981Conrad I n d u s t r i e s president Parker Conrad has announced the promotion of Michael J. McAdams to general manager, and the appointment of Herman J. Bailey to new construction superintendent, Building Two. Mr. McAdams, who moves from c o n s t r u c t i o n superintendent to general ma
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on May 1981American United Marine Corporation (AUM) of Saugus (Boston), Mass., has been appointed the exclusive worldwide maritime industry sales agent for marketing NRG™ lubrication treatments for engines and gears. The announcement was made recently by Robert J. Robideau, president of Ariel Internat
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on May 1981Connecting and disconnecting docked ships to shore-generated power is now faster, safer, and easier thanks to rugged new ship/ shore connectors recently introduced by Joy M a n u f a c t u r i ng Company, LaGrange, N.C. The Joy ship/shore three-phase connector offers several important featu
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on May 1981The second specially designed rubber transport ship, destined for Firestone's t r a n s - A t l a n t ic service, was christened recently at Koyo Dock Yards in Japan. After several months of outfitting and shakedown, the new Harbel Tapper will join her sister ship, Harbel Cutlass, this summe
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on May 1981Downtime was cut by half when dockside repairs on the jackup drilling rig Salenergy V (shown above) were completed by Industrial Marine Services in Cameron, La. The interval between the rig's arrival at Industrial Marine and the day the work was completed on schedule was approximately half th
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on May 1981A method of reclaiming more than 3y2 million gallons of waste fuel and oil from ships being overhauled at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard has brought Matthew H. Monette of Portsmouth, Va., the shipyard's Naval Civilian Administrators Association Productivity Award for the last quarter of 1980. Mor
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on May 1981The export of coal from the United States, hampered today by limited port facilities, will get a boost from a significant new facility slated for the Port of Albany, N.Y. New Amsterdam Coal, Inc. of Dallas has announced plans to open the new facility in Albany by the fall of 1981. With an im
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on May 1981Charles M. Aker, vice president and general manager of Omnithruster Inc., has announced the signing of a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e 's agreement with Manotherm B.V. to cover the Benelux countries, and act as service agents in many chief seaports of the world. An a f f i l i a t e d company
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on May 1981Mid-Coast Marine of Eastside, Ore., recently received a $l-million contract for construction of a 72-foot pusher type towboat for Rocafosforica Mexicana S.A. de C.V. The vessel will be delivered in September to the owner's o p e r a t i o n in Baja California, Mexico. Propulsion will be pro
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on May 1981The Maritime Administration has released a study, "U.S. Exports & Imports Transshipped Via Canadian Ports," which presents the dollar value of estimated tonnage for United S t a t e s trade transshipped through Canada during calendar year 1979. It revealed that the value of exports in 1979
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on May 1981Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries, Inc., has announced the addition of Jose Luis Martinez and Werner Faass to their international marketing staff. Mr. Martinez has been named district sales manager in the firm's Mexico City office, and Mr. Faass is regional sales manager in the Car
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on May 1981Fabricating and transferring of ships and drill rigs using special Hydranautics hydraulic systems equipment has begun at Rauma Repola's Mantyluoto yard in Pori, Finland. The equipment permits ships of 8,500 tons steel weight to be constructed on land in sections, then assembled and moved onto
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on May 1981Hoffert Marine Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., supplier of deck and engine equipment and services, has added Hundested Multi-Pitch propellers to its products for distribution from New York south along the East Coast and to ports along the Gulf Coast. The Multi- Pitch propellers are manufactured i
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on May 1981S i m r a d ' s computer-controlled TL-838 takes advantage of microprocessor technology to insure quality operation. It quickly and automatically acquires and tracks the master and all secondary signals in a selected Loran C chain. All TDs can be tracked simultaneously while any two are disp
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on May 1981Wilfred J. Galatas has been appointed vice president and assistant plant superintendent, and Ernest M. Graham has been named assistant to the president at Southern Shipbuilding Corporation, Slidell, La. Mr. Galatas has been with SSC since 1972, serving in sales and as repair superintendent. P
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on May 1981Globally the structure and organization of the international shipping industry is undergoing fundamental and in many instances rapid change. This change has been manifest during the late 1970s by geographical change in both the flag and ownership of tonnage and by the increasing encroachment o
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on May 1981The Maritime Administration has postponed until June 4 the opening of bids for the sale of five obsolete Government-owned vessels for conversion and operation in the fisheries or the domestic commerce of the United States. Invitation for Bids No. PD-X-1035, issued last October 31, offered f
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on May 1981Ralph E. Van der Naillen, vice president of Cargo Carriers, Inc., Minneapolis, has been installed as chairman of the board of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. (AWO). He has served as vice chairman of the board for the past year. Mr. Van der Naillen, in an address to the AWO annual mee
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on May 1981Swiss-Lok has designed and fabricated a special design staging for the new drydocks at Newport News Shipbuilding. This staging will save time in erection and needs no wood planking. The staging is designed to support Swiss Fabricating's Swiss-Lok design removable roof in sections of 48 feet
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on May 1981The Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its annual student meeting recently. The turnout for students was very good, ranging from high schools in the Seattle area to colleges from British Columbia to Oregon. The student paper, titled "The H