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on May 1992Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp., Newport News, Va., recently unveiled a new frigate design which it plans to offer to the worldwide military market. Costing about $400 million, the new FF-21 frigate would be in direct competition with reportedly more expensive designs from Germany
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on May 1992Double Hulls Account For 28 Percent Of Tanker Orders Despite the fact that oil tanker contracting slowed down considerably last year from the 1990, the tanker order book worldwide is at its highest levels in 15 years, according to the Independent Tanker Owners Association (INTERTANKO). At
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on May 1992Regulations stemming from the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 is resulting in a major rethinking of tanker industry ship design, equipment, chartering, operations and liability procedures. At the annual meeting in Genoa of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (I
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on May 1992The U.S. Coast Guard is attempting to establish federal oil spill regulations that realize the concerns of the nation's coastal states, thereby avoiding a host of individual state spill laws. While addressing the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) in Genoa,
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on May 1992In the wake of an International Maritime Organization (IMO) ruling that tankers over 5,000 dwt must have full double bottoms and wing tanks, a double-hull design from Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) has been chosen by European shipyards as their building standard. Because a Marpol conven
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on May 1992New Generation Crude Carrier One of the first U.S.-owned tankers built in the world to conform with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, the 95,000-dwt Patriot was delivered earlier this year to Conoco Shipping, a subsidiary of Du Pont. Built by South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries
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on May 1992The double-hull configuration for tankers entering U.S. ports, as required by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, will phase out of service a sizable number of large oil carriers built in the first half of the 1970s. This fact will stimulate the demand for safer, more technologically advanced ves
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on May 1992MH Systems, Inc., Del Mar, Calif., developer of the American Underpressure System called Spillstop, has performed probabilistic outflow analysis and cost analysis of the system. The system might prove to be a cost-effective interim solution for existing tankers to prevent or reduce the outfl
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on May 1992New international standards for double hull oil tanker construction were recently adopted at the 32nd session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 32) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations agency responsible for maritime affairs. U.S. Coast Guard
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on May 1992Over 500 Attend Ceremonies For Viking Maritec-Designed Boats The second and third of a series of three Viking 2000 Class towboats built by the Boat Division of Avondale Industries, Inc., were recently christened in ceremonies on the Ohio River at Paducah, Ky. The 168-foot-long boats were n
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on May 1992Gambling Vessel Part Of $36 Million Project The Morgan City, La., shipyard of Service Marine Industries Inc. is constructing a new 210-foot gaming boat for a Harrah's Casino Hotels/ Hammons partnership as part of a $36 million gambling project. The megayacht-style vessel is being built for
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on May 1992Military specifications for fiber ropes are now going to include a finish requirement to improve the rope's performance in the marine environment. Where included in the specifications, rope manufacturers must use fibers with an overlay finish to ensure that their products provide superior p
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on May 1992Del Norte Technology Inc., Euless, Texas, has introduced the Model 2006 GPS system, one of the latest additions to its GPS product line. The 2006 is a 6-channel LI C/A code GPS receiver which comes with a built-in PC and rugged splashproof case. The system allows for flexible data logging an
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on May 1992Schichau Seebeckwerft AG recently launched the first of two reefer ships it is currently building for Great White Fleet (United Brands/ Chiquita) at its yard in Bremerhaven. The ships are the first of this type being built at the yard of which four have already been built and delivered by Br
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on May 1992As part of an effort by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) to rejuvenate Boston Harbor, the Quincy shipyard, renamed the Fore River Staging Area, will be the site of a $6.1-billion redevelopment project. In 1987 the MWRA purchased the 180-acre Fore River shipyard from Genera
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on May 1992The 205-acre Riverplex International Inc. terminal in Louisiana is to be turned into an intermodal cargo-handling facility by the Port of South Louisiana, which recently paid $12.1 million to purchase it. The terminal will be renamed Globalplex. The terminal has handled dry bulk cargoes for
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on May 1992Chemists attending the recent national meeting of the American Chemical Society agreed that the most effective techniques for cleaning up huge oil and chemical spills quickly and relatively cheaply will probably involve combined approaches exploiting solar energy, bacteria and mechanical age
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on May 1992An automatic synchronization of hoists control (ASH) for dual drives up to 500 horsepower has been developed by Kranco, Inc., of Houston. Designed to increase wire rope life and to provide ease of operation for Major Conference On Oil crane operators, the system is primarily utilized for mec
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on May 1992Washburn & Doughty Associates, Inc. recently delivered the passenger/ auto ferry Captain Henry Lee to Maine State Ferry Service. The vessel was designed by Rodney E. Lay Associates of Jacksonville, Fla., and partially funded by a grant from the Federal Transit Administration and State of Mai
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on May 1992The 11 th International Conference & Exhibition For The Roll-on/Roll-off Marine Transportation Industry, SVENSKA MASSAN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN 20-22 May 1992 From May 20 to 22, the Svenska Massan Conference Center and Sara Gothia Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden, will be hosting RoRo 92, the 11th bi