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on September 1994The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, have taken an important step towards deepening Jacksonville's harbor from 38 ft. (11.5 m) to 42 ft. (13 m). Corps District Engineer Col. Terrence C. Salt and JAXPORT Chairman Mark Hulsey s
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on September 1994President Clinton announces contract award; Title XI financing plan helps secure order A direct beneficiary of the Title XI financing guarantees was Trinity Marine Group (TMG), a subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc., which includes 15 shipyards. The company has been selected to build two
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on September 1994MarAd has agreed to a request filed by American President Lines (APL) for a section 804(a) waiver of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to permit APL to use space on vessels operated by Transportation Maritima Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (TMM) for transpacific carriage of cargoes in U.S.
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on September 1994Midland Manufacturing Corp., makers of vapor recovery and alarm systems for the marine industry, appointed Gaston C. Barmore as director of technical services and Norman A. Magiera as manager of marine sales. Mr. Barmore will supervise the development of new products and technical support of c
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on September 1994Bay Fabrication, Inc. of Panama City, Fla. delivered the lengthened 146-ft. (44.5-m) Ensco Endeavor to Ensco Marine Company, Broussard, La. The Ensco Endeavor was originally built as a 116-ft. by 26-ft. by 10- ft. (35-m by 8-m by 3-m) utility vessel in 1981 by Scully Brothers and was bought
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on September 1994Colvic Craft PLC, England, delivered the first 12 vessels of an order for 44 patrol boats for the Greek Coastguard. At the June European Union (EU) Summit held in Corfu, three of the new Colvic Craft patrol craft played a key role in the security measures used by the Greek authorities to pr
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on September 1994Robert Unger has been named president of Raytheon Marine Company. In his new role, Mr. Unger has worldwide responsibility for the company's manufacturing, sales, marketing, service, and product development activities. The new president, who reports to Dr. Philip W. Cheney, group executive f
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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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- Fish Expo '94 - Boston page: 80
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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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- MarAd Approves Section 9 Requests page: 92
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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