Maritime Reporter 1994 Articles
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on September 1994MarAd has received several section 9 applications. They include: • Neptune International, Inc., Grove Village, 111., has asked permission to sell the 39,700-gt tanker Montrachet. The proposed purchaser is Neter Navigation, S.A., for resale to M/S Kwality Steel Supplier of India. The vessel was
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on September 1994Legalized riverboat gaming is — according to various market indicators — primed to spread to and throughout the Northeast U.S., specifically New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania. To help pave the profitable way for suppliers to the industry, the Maritime Association of the Port of New York/New
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on September 1994Global Ocean Carriers Ltd. announced two fleet expansion projects are currently being considered, and that the company is evaluating the possibility of taking advantage of the Title XI financing available. The company reports it is contemplating ordering new container feeder vessels, and is
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on September 1994A/S Thor Dahl Shipping of Sanderjord, Norway has purchased South Pacific InterLine (SPI) from Reederi AB Gotland of Visby, Sweden. Thor Dahl Shipping assigned its San Francisco-based shipping company, South Seas Steamship (SSS), full responsiblity for managing SPI's vessels, including schedu
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on September 1994• Sonsub was awarded a contract by McDermott Incorporated to assist in the installation of a platform for Oryx Energy in High Island 385A in the Gulf of Mexico. Sonsub will mobilize a 75-hp Triton Advanced Remotely Operated Work System (AROWS) and a Viper Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to
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on September 1994Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc. has completed the Queen of the Red, a 295-ft. (90-m) casino riverboat built for Horseshoe Entertainment. The riverboat is now operating on the Red River in Bossier City, La., near Shreveport. The Queen of the Red is the seventh casino vessel completed by
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on September 1994Controversy continues to plague the European fishing industry. Within days a so-called "tuna war" hit the headlines with ax-wielding Spanish fishermen boarding British drift netters and news broke of a spate of newbuild orders going to foreign yards amid accusations of unfair government subs
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- Designs for the 21st century page: 20
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on September 1994The U.K.'s public-funded maritime rescue organization — the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) — is well into its ambitious and costly newbuild program to replace the aging Waveney and Arun class lifeboats. Such a move is the result of much long term research and development work b
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on September 1994The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Polar Sea and the Canadian Coast Guard Cutter Louis S. Ste. Laurent reached the North Pole on August 22, becoming the first North American surface ships to reach the North Pole. The Polar Sea is a 399-ft. (122-m) icebreaker from Seattle, Wash., and the Ste
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on September 1994Applied Remote Technology, Inc. (ART), a California-based Raytheon Company subsidiary, teamed with a Scottish firm to conduct a laser imaging pipeline survey in the North Sea. ART and Aberdeen-based SubSea Survey (a division of SubSea Offshore), used ART's LS-4096 underwater laser line scan
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on September 1994October 13-15, Boston, Mass. More than 11,000 commercial fishermen, vessel owners and builders, suppliers and manufacturers, and workboat owners and operators will gather at the Fish Expo '94 Boston commercial fishing show in Boston. The show is held every two years and is billed as the Atl
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on September 1994• Penrod International Drilling Co., Broussard, La., received approval to sell the drill rig Ensco 67 to P & P Drilling Limited, a Bahamian corporation, and to transfer the vessel to Bahamian registry. • Corostel Trading Ltd., a Canadian corporation, was given permission to resell the cargo v
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on September 1994Faster and lower-cost replacement of ships' alarm systems is now an option for vessels struggling with costly maintenance of old monitoring equipment. Existing control panels can be used, and the upgrade even carried out, while the vessel is under way. Moland Automation in Arendal, Norway, has
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on September 1994SCN Container Line Inc. initiated independent service linking the three major ports of South Florida with 18 ports in a dozen countries in Central America and South America. Led by South Florida shipping industry veterans Fernando Bowen and Raymond M. Hernandez, SCN Container Line began se
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on September 1994Great Lakes ports now have a better opportunity to compete for government-generated agricultural commodity cargoes, MarAd's Albert J. Herberger announced today. "Our new trial program will help Great Lakes ports compete for additional cargoes they would not otherwise be eligible to receive," A
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on September 1994Money raised by increasing duty on ships visiting U.S. ports The final piece of a comprehensive, bipartisan initiative authored by Rep. Gerry E. Studds(D-Mass.) to reform and revitalize the U.S. maritime industries was approved by a vote of 294 to 122 by the U.S. House of Representatives. P
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on September 1994Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. recently announced some organizational changes. Carl J. Horn has been named executive vice president with responsibilities for all customer acquisition and operations functions of the company; and Joseph T. Lykes III, senior vice president - administration, has assu