Maritime Reporter 1985 Articles
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on November 1985Newman's Inc., headquartered in Tulsa, has available a new four-page brochure detailing NEWCO ball valves specifically designed for high-reliability operation in the oil, petrochemical, and related industries. It has been formatted with line drawings for ease in selection and order placement
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on November 1985Using satellite signals only, Oceaneering International, Inc. of Houston has accurately positioned the Doo-Sung, a semi-submersible drilling rig on contract to Exxon in Alaska's Navarin Basin. This is said to be the first time a rig has been positioned without the use of landbased or acousti
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on November 1985John T. Gilbride Jr., vice president and general manager of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation's Seattle Division, has announced the award of a $6-million Navy phased maintenance contract for routine maintenance work without drydocking on the fast combat support ship USS Camden (AOE-2). This
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on November 1985Versatile Vickers Inc. of Montreal, one of Canada's most experienced naval ship repair yards, was recently awarded two refit contracts worth approximately Can.$20.5 million (approximately $15 million). The most valuable of the contracts, worth Can.$13 million ($9.5 million), is to carry out
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on November 1985The 1st Lt. Alex Bonnyman, delivered recently by Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont (Texas) Yard, is the fifth and final vessel to be reconstructed by Bethlehem for the U.S. Navy's Maritime Prepositioning Ship Program. The Bonnyman and her four sister ships, which will be chartered to th
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on October 15, 1985The president and COO of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., and the president and COO of its subsidiary, Matson Navigation Company, will switch positions this month, according to R.J. Pfeiffer, chairman and chief executive officer of both firms. John C. Couch, Matson's president and chief operating
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on October 15, 1985Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco has ordered three new high-speed container cranes for its terminals. One each will be installed at the Oakland and Los Angeles terminals; these are expected to be in operation by late October this year. The third crane will be installed at Matson's
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on October 15, 1985W.L. (Les) Porter Jr. has been named vice president, Raymond Fabricators, Inc., Houston, Texas, a subsidiary of Raymond Offshore Constructors, Inc. Mr. Porter is responsible for domestic and international fabrication projects and for the operation of Raymond Fabricators' 437-acre yard at Ho
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on October 15, 1985Siemens AG of West Germany is offering an eight-page full-color brochure on automatic remote control system DIFA 41 for main diesel engines with fixed propeller. The text of the brochure explains that the DIFA 41 automatic control system enables direct remote control of the main diesel engin
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on October 15, 1985Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. of South Korea is constructing four multipurpose, wider-hatch container/bulk carriers for the Jardine Group of Hong Kong and Gearbulk Ltd. of Norway. The first ship in the series, the Hawk Arrow was delivered in August and will operate in the
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on October 15, 1985A three-component design is now available from Transamerica Delaval Inc. to permit users to build their own system for monitoring and controlling liquid flow. The heart of this flow system is a sensing unit that is available in four versions. Included are: sensors for flow velocities from 1 to
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on October 15, 1985Cartridge-mounted Style 114 Chesterton® Seal from A.W. Chesterton Co., Stoneham, Mass., is expressly designed to convert several series and models of Viking Pumps from mechanical packing to mechanical sealing. Conversion is easily accomplished by removing the original pump packing and gland
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on October 15, 1985Colombo Dockyard (Pte) Ltd. (CDL) of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is offering a new 12-page full-color brochure on the yard's facilities and capabilities. The text of the brochure points out that Colombo is in an ideal location, situated at the intersection of sea lanes to the east from the Mediterra
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on October 15, 1985—Data Available Koch-Ellis Barge and Ship Service has been pioneering a new program of aerobic digesting systems for on-sight treatment of wash water. Koch-Ellis has worked closely with the Environmental Protection Agency to help set industry waste disposal standards. The process of aerobic
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on October 15, 1985—Free Literature Available A new, highly sophisticated ship simulator has been developed and built jointly by two British companies for the Finnish Technical Research Center near Helsinki where it will be used for research into ship behaviour and to train deck officers to maneuver vessels in
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on October 15, 1985Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS), Stamford, Conn., was awarded a contract to supply their IBM PC-based Planned Maintenance System (PMS) for Amoco Transport Company, according to an announcement made by MMS vice president Don Logan. This contract supplements an earlier award to MMS for
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on October 15, 1985—Literature Available Shipboard operations can be supervised and controlled using the newly developed Siemens SIGOS 41 Graphic Operation System. At video data terminals, all measured values and conditions needed for shipboard operations are clearly shown in mimic diagrams employing symbols
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on October 15, 1985—Free Literature Available The Port of London Authority has awarded a contract to the Norcontrol Division of Kongsberg Ltd., for a new radar display system in the operations room of the Thames Navigation Service at Gravesend. Included in the contract are facilities for recording information
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on October 15, 1985—Free Literature Available Raytheon Marine Company has introduced the new, multifunction D-600 Digital Depth, Speed and Temperature Indicator. Large, dual LCD readouts display depth (in feet, meters, or fathoms), speed (in knots or miles per hour), surface water temperature (in degrees C or
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on October 15, 1985—Literature Available Trimble Navigation of Mountain View, Calif., recently introduced its newest navigation aid, the Loran*GPS 10X. The combined Loran-GPS (Global Positioning System) 10X provides among the most precise position, navigation, velocity and time systems available. According to