Maritime Reporter 1991 Articles
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on March 1991Avondale Industries, Inc. recently announced that its Boat Division has been appointed the U.S. licensee for the API-88 amphibious hovercraft. The API-88 is a high-speed passenger hovercraft and freightcarrying air-cushioned vehicle designed by the British Hovercraft Corporation. The vessel
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on March 1991Newport News Shipbuilding president Edward J. Campbell recently named Robert R. Hardison vice president, quality. Mr. Hardison will be responsible for all quality assurance and inspection functions for the company. Mr. Hardison replaces L. R. Sorenson Jr., who retired as quality vice presid
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on March 1991Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc. (JSI), Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded its largest contract since reopening, worth about $2.5 million, to repair the Petroleos Mexicanos S.A. (Pemex) ship Cantarell, which was damaged by an explosion last year. The aft end of the 46,486-dwt LPG carrier was a
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on March 1991MAN B&W Diesel, Inc. recently moved its USA headquarters to 17 State Street, New York, N.Y. 10004. The telephone number is (212) 269- 0980, telefax number (212) 363- 2469. Located at the new office are Claus Windelev, president, Edward A. Waryas, director, business development, and Lars K.
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on March 1991Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation, Port Arthur, Texas, recently signed a contract with Oceaneering Production Systems, a division of Oceaneering International, Inc., Houston, Texas, to provide facility and services to convert the tanker Baltimore Sea to a Floating Production Storage an
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on March 1991Peterson Builders, Inc. (PBI) of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has signed a three-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Navy to become the Lead Yard in Industrial Processes in the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP). James Rogness of PBI Industrial Engineering has been assigned the positi
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- A New Approach To Issue Advocacy page: 21
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on March 1991Issue advocacy is the heart and soul of what a trade association does. A good trade association effectively promotes policies and programs which are beneficial to its members' interests, and it protects and defends its members from governmental initiatives which are harmful or senseless. At
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on March 1991The American Waterways Operators, the national trade association of the inland and coastal tug and barge industry, will hold its annual meeting and spring convention on April 4-5, 1991, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C. All AWO members, including directors, designated representat
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on March 1991Marine Industries Northwest Inc. of Tacoma, Wash., recently performed overhaul and activation repairs aboard two large RO/RO barges for a New York corporation. The former SeaWay Express RO/ RO barges City of Seward, and Resurrection Bay, each measure 487 feet long with a 104-foot beam and 2
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on March 1991Baldt, Inc. has been awarded four c o n t r a c t s for approximately $1,000,000 by Ingalls Shipbuilding for manufacturing anchor, chain and hardware for four ships being constructed for the U.S. Navy. The announcement was made by Philip J. Carcara, president of Baldt. Baldt will manufacture
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on March 1991Atlantic Marine, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., recently launched the 201-foot, 1,000-passenger casino riverboat Emerald Lady for Steamboat Casino River Cruises, a leading developer of riverboat gambling in Iowa. The Emerald Lady is the second of three dining/casino riverboats Atlantic Marine is
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- Avondale Christens 10th In Series Of 16 Auxiliary Fleet Oilers Under Construction For U.S. Navy page: 14
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on March 1991The 10th in a series of 16 auxiliary fleet oilers under construction for the U.S. Navy by the Shipyards Division of Avondale Industries, Inc., was christened the USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198) in ceremonies held recently at the yard. The vessel is scheduled for delivery this fall. The Big Horn and
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- New Prototype Rescue Vessel, Built By Textron Marine For USCG, Credited With Saving Four Lives page: 12
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on March 1991The performance of the U.S. Coast Guard's new motor lifeboat averted greater tragedy during an ill-fated rescue mission off Oregon's Columbia River recently, in which a Coast Guardsman and two fishermen were lost. The new prototype vessel, built by Textron Marine Systems (TMS) in New Orleans
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on March 1991Sperry Marine was honored at the annual banquet of the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) when the association presented its 1990 Products Award to the Sperry Marine gyrocompass system. The NMEA jury of industry sales and technical personnel bestows the honor annually on marine e
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on March 1991Gilbert Cheramie, president of Gilbert Cheramie Boats, Inc., and T.R. Hensley, president of Service Marine Industries, Inc. (SMI), recently signed a contract for the construction of a 145-foot by 36-foot by 11-foot 6-inch utility boat. The new vessel will be a sister ship to the Erika Lynn,
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on March 1991Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Miss., a member of the Trinity Marine Group, recently received two contracts worth more than $138 million from the U.S. Navy. The first contract is for the detail design and construction of two TAGS- 60 Class oceanographic survey ships with an option for a th
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on March 1991Meyer Werft of Papenburg, Germany, recently delivered the 15,000- cubic-meter LPG/ammonia carrier Skulte to AKP "Sovcomflot," Moscow. The 518-foot-long by 70-footbeam newbuilding, named after a place in the Gulf of Riga, is the fourth ship in a series of six gas carriers for the USSR. Upon c
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on March 1991This spring, Marystown Shipyard in Newfoundland is expected to start construction of a combined icebreaker and passenger ferry, with backing from Swedish icebreaking expertise. The provincial Department of Works, Services and Transportation ordered the $20 million vessel to link Fogo Island
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on March 1991Ferruzzi group company Fermar, one of Italy's leading privately owned shipping operators, has placed a contract with the statecontrolled shipbuilding organization Fincantieri for a 30,000-dwt products carrier. The newbuilding is reported to have commanded a price in the region of $53.5 milli
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on March 1991The Dutch company Grootint was recently awarded a $111 million contract by Chevron Corp., San Francisco, for construction of a 9,500-ton oil platform deck for the North Sea Alba oil field. U.K. Government approval of the contract is required before Chevron can carry out plans to develop the