Maritime Reporter 1984 Articles
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on September 1984Halifax Shipyard in Nova Scotia, Canada, recently completed on schedule a major, sixweek damage contract following the collision of two vessels off Cape Breton. The ships involved were the 11,301-dwt cargo vessel Ho Ming 3, owned by Dowa Line Limited of Tokyo, which was carrying cattle feed e
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on September 1984A contract was signed recently between Krupp MaK Diesel, Inc. and Automated Marine Propulsion Systems, Inc. of La Porte, Texas, making AMPS an authorized service facility for MaK—the world's largest manufacturer of medium-speed diesel engines capable of operating on heavy fuels. MaK is based
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on September 1984Sperry Corporation, Great Neck, N.Y., has formally opened a new facility in Panama City Beach, Fla., to manage combat system integration support work for the U.S. Navy's mine countermeasures ships. The facility was built to house the work on the three-year, $6.8-million contract awarded to Sp
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on September 1984— Literature Available Smith Berger Marine, Inc., Seattle-based manufacturer and distributor of marine hardware and seafood processing machinery, has appointed two major U.S. East Coast marine equipment distributors, according to company president James L. Montgomery. Maritime Equipment, Inc.
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on September 1984Twice in recent weeks Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company in Chester, Pa., has come to the aid of a foreign-flag vessel stranded in the Delaware River and unable to meet her commitment to load cargo. In the first instance, the 74,000-dwt Hong Kong-owned, Liberian-flag OBO Mega Bay had sustained
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on September 1984The Memphis Fire Department had two major requirements when ordering its new fire boat; the craft should be small enough for trailer mounting to give it land mobility but also be large enough to respond to a variety of marine fire problems confronting the department. The boat has to be availa
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on September 1984Two new classes of handy-sized containerships under construction in the Federal Republic of Germany will be propelled by Sulzer's newest series RTA slow-speed diesel engines. The two orders, both from German owners, indicate the great interest aroused in Germany by the RTA series, which offers
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on September 1984A new organization, the Fast Sealift Ship Readiness Support Squadron, has been established under the Navy's Military Sealift Command, with headquarters at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The squadron commander is Capt. Thomas E. Morin, USN. It will be staffed with two naval officers, three enli
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on September 1984Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (MECO) of New Orleans has appointed Charles D. Rose vice president of its newly formed Marine Products Group. The announcement was made by MECO president Wil Pergande. Mr. Rose formerly held vice president positions with Aqua- Chem and Riley Beaird, and br
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on September 1984American-Standard, Inc. has combined its U.S. and European WABCO Fluid Power operations and has reassigned management responsibilities to strengthen the firm's international fluid power business. "We're combining the sales, marketing, product planning, engineering and manufacturing for Eur
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on September 1984Murdock Engineering Co., Dallas, Texas, and finite element engineering consultant Hunt/Leslie/ Associates have used a computer to design the flexible 'controlled yielding' coupling for the world's first deepwater tension leg oil platform (TLP). The coupling is the critical connection betwee
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on September 1984Robert W. Meyer has been promoted to assistant vice president, market operations-river area for the Transportation Division of National Marine Service Incorporated, one of the NICOR basic energy companies. The announcement was made by NMS president W.A. Creelman. Mr. Meyer, a graduate of Wa
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on September 1984Samsung Shipbuilding and Heavy Industries Company of South Korea has signed a final contract to build a large bulk carrier for Broken Hill Proprietary Company of Australia. Under the contract, Samsung will construct a 220,000-dwt coal/ore/bulk carrier at its Koje shipyard for delivery in Ma
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on September 1984A hallmark event for Nichols Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland, Wash., was the recent christening of the M/V Klondike, a unique 72-foot high-speed catamaran built for Yukon River Cruises of Alaska. The first of its kind to be built in the U.S., the vessel, which can carry 210 passengers, is
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on September 1984The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command has chartered an icestrengthened ship for service in the Arctic and Antarctic beginning in January next year. The ship will be chartered from Central Gulf Lines of New Orleans for four and one-half years. Under terms of the charter, the MSC will pay
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on September 1984Orders for self-unloading systems to be installed on six seagoing bulk cargo carriers have been announced by the Stephens-Adamson Canadian Division of Allis- Chalmers Solids Process Equipment Company. The value of these orders exceeds $12 million Canadian ($10 million U.S.). They come from
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on September 1984— Literature Available Schottel of America, Inc., of Miami, Fla., recently received an order from the Coast Guard for a remote controlled water-jet bow propulsion and maneuvering system for a shallow-draft barge that is believed to be the first such installation in the U.S. The unit will be
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on September 1984Howard R. Canter has been appointed president of At-Sea Incineration, Inc. (ASI), according to a recent announcement by B. James Lowe, president and chief executive officer of Tacoma Boatbuilding Company. He succeeds Gerald R. Schiller, who has resigned but will continue to serve as a consu
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on September 1984American Transport, Inc. of Chicago has applied to the Maritime Administration for Title XI mortgage guarantee to aid in financing the conversion of four Great Lakes freighters into unmanned roll-on/ roll-off barges. The vessels are the Champlain and Cadillac, both built in 1943; the Willis
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on September 1984Acting on behalf of the U.S. Navy, the Maritime Administration recently awarded a $5,688,480 contract to Simplex Wire & Cable Company of Portsmouth, N.H., for a system to transfer petroleum distillates, oil, and lubricants from a tanker moored as much as four miles offshore to an onshore dis