Maritime Reporter 1991 Articles
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on February 1991Conoco, Inc., the Houston-based oil firm, recently announced it would increase its capital spending by 25 percent to $2 billion in 1991. According to company president Constantine Nicandros, Conoco's increased spending is not in response to present high oil prices brought on by the Middle Ea
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on February 1991The first double-hulled, doublebottomed tanker built at its Oppama yard will soon be launched in Japan by Sumitomo. The Olympic Serenity, ordered by Onassis subsidiary Dover Marine Panama at a cost of about $59 million, has been constructed in line with U.S. antipollution laws enacted last
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on February 1991Secretary of Commerce Robert A. Mosbacher recently announced that Sperry Marine Inc. of Charlottesville, Va., is one of the 20 U.S. companies chosen for the "Japan Corporate Program." Sperry Marine was among 120 finalist companies considered by the Commerce Department and is the only winner
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on February 1991Detyens Shipyards, Inc., Charleston, S.C., recently completed a 55-day major refit of the 465-foot, ice-class bulk carrier Eagle. The renewal of the 15,850-dwt Eagle, operated out of the Port of Savannah, Ga., by Colonial Marine Industries, Inc., involved the structural repair of major ice d
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on February 1991A comprehensive trial and test program has begun on a four-stroke, medium-speed V-configuration diesel engine jointly developed by MAN B&W Diesel and S.E.M.T. Pielstick. The V-version of the 48/60 fourstroke engine was started on the Augsburg test bench of MAN B&W Diesel. This medium-speed
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on February 1991Reports It Will Build Two Tankers For OSCO Los Angeles Shipyard Corporation, based in San Pedro, Calif., recently announced it had secured its first production contract and has been awarded the exclusive negotiating rights from the Port of Los Angeles for leasing arrangements for a shipyar
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on February 1991Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., recently appointed Peter J. Gwyn to the position of president and chief operating officer. Mr. Gwyn brings over 30 years of marine industry experience to his new position and is joining Bird- Johnson from the Massachusetts Shipbuilders Corporation, where
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on February 1991An active inert gas-controlled system utilizing vacuum technique (SpillStop™-Patent Pending) from Western Products, Ventura, Calif., drastically reduces or totally prevents oil spill from tankers after an accidental rupture of the hull. Existing inert gas systems installed are modified to pr
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on February 1991A "Marine Structural Inspection, Maintenance, and Monitoring Symposium" has been scheduled for March 18-19, 1991, at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Va. This is the sixth symposium jointly sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) and the interagency S
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on February 1991Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc., Victoria, B.C., Canada, recently delivered the mediumendurance, search and rescue patrol vessel Esquimalt to the Canadian Coast Guard. The 164-foot-long by 36-foot-wide Esquimalt is of fully molded form, and has a single continuous main deck with a fully enclo
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on February 1991To cope with the increasing volume of work in both shipbuilding and repair, Singmarine Dockyard & Engineering, the shipbuilding arm of Keppel Corporation of Singapore, has acquired two floating docks, one from Belgium and the other from Ireland. The docks are expected to become operational b
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on February 1991In line with a new $106 million, five-year capital development program, Hampton Roads port complex in Virginia is poised for substantial expansion in 1991. Hampton Roads' largest container terminal, Norfolk, will double in capacity in the next three to five years with the development of a 3
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on February 1991Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc., Houston, Texas, a leading manufacturer of diesel and gas turbine- powered equipment, recently received a $20-million order for 24 diesel-powered generator sets. The generators will be used aboard patrol frigates being built for the Republic of China (Taiwa
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on February 1991Owners, Operators, Suppliers Enter 1991 With Renewed Optimism Optimism is certainly the prevailing feeling among owners, operators, builders and equipment suppliers of the workboat fleet serving the Gulf of Mexico as they enter 1991. This renewed optimism can be traced in part to the belief
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on February 1991Malcolm W. MacLeod, president and CEO of Moran Towing Corporation, recently announced the appointment of three new vice presidents of Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., the New York operating subsidiary of the corporation. The new vice presidents are Bruce D. Richards, chartering a
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on February 1991Maryland Marine, Inc., Houston, Texas, recently contracted Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., to build four 30,000-barrel double-skin tank barges. According to Caroll Bjornson, owner of MMI, the 297-1/2-foot barges will be built to Coast Guard Type II standards and will b
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on February 1991A pair of Cummins 6BTA5.9-M1 marine diesels were selected to power a new rough-water fire/rescue vessel recently delivered to the Avalon Harbor Patrol of Catalina Island. The 7-1/2-ton, 12-foot-beam, 32-foot-long boat was built by Seaway Boat Company of Long Beach, Calif. It has been placed
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on February 1991Saab's new computerized cargo handling system, the MaC/501, was recently selected by Swedish shipowner United Tankers for installation on its new product tankers. The two vessels have been ordered at the Uljanik shipyard in Yugoslavia (hull nos. 406 and 407) and are scheduled for delivery in 1
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on February 1991The responses to an October application filed with the Maritime Administration (MarAd) by Lykes Bros. Steamship Company have generally not been supportive. Lykes, one of the largest subsidized U.S.- flag liner shipping companies, is seeking permission to replace U.S.-flag vessels in its fle
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on February 1991AK-WA Shipyard, Tacoma, Wash., is converting the 369-foot Apollo One to a bottom fish processor for an early March delivery to the Seattle-based Dona Fisheries. In addition, the yard won a contract to repower and modernize eight LCMs. The Apollo One, launched in 1984 as an incinerator ship