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on November 1991The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a major marine terminal operator in the Port of Hamburg, Germany, have successfully linked their Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) systems to create an international interchange of oceanborne cargo information. The announcement was made by Lilli
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on November 1991Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Tokyo, Japan, has received a silver medal, the Stanly Gray Award and the BMEC Donald Maxwell Award in Marine Technology from the United Kingdom's Institute of Marine Engineers (I Mar E) for a paper entitled "The Development of a Contra-Rotating Propeller
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- Theme Of MTS '91 In New Orleans To Be 'An Ocean Cooperative— Industry, Government, Academia' page: 34
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on November 1991The 1991 international conference of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), scheduled be held in New Orleans, La., November 11-13, 1991, at the New Orleans Convention Center, will feature the theme: "An Ocean Cooperative—Industry, Government, Academia." The conference is expected to attract o
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on November 1991Coast Guard aviation recently entered a new era on the West Coast with the acceptance in San Francisco of the Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopter. From their base, the aircraft will be able to perform missions several hundred miles off the Pacific Coast between Point
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- SNAME NY Metropolitan Discusses Training Of Deck Officers At 'Past Chairman's Night' Session page: 40
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on November 1991The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently opened its 1991/92 season at the Downtown Athletic Club in lower Manhattan. The new section chairman, Richard Gilmore, began his tenure by thanking outgoing chairman Bruce Rosenblatt for his w
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on November 1991New York, New York, November 13-16 One of the most import a n t marine shows in the U.S., the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engin e e r s (SNAME) Annual Meeting and International Maritime Exposition will holdits 1991 conference in New York City from November 13-16. The three
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- A Word From The President page: 21
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on November 1991As the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers' 39th president, I have the privilege of leading the society up to its centennial. SNAME has grown from a small New York-centered organization to a society with worldwide membership, recognition and prestige. When it was established in
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on November 1991An American underpressure system called Spillstop is an advanced spill avoidance system for oil tankers. It employs slight, continuous, and pre-existing underpressure in a medium of inert gas of the ullage space of a ship's tank. Spillstop responds immediately in the event of an accidental h
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on November 1991Goudy and Stevens shipyard, East Boothbay, Maine, recently launched the oil-spill recovery ship Shearwa- The 123-foot-longby31-foot-beam vessel is being constructed to JBF Scientific Company's design. The oil collection system and related hardware have been designed and built by JBF in South
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on November 1991The Helsinki Police recently commissioned a newly designed and built 8-meter high-speed all-aluminum patrol boat that features Hamilton Jet propulsion equipment. Designed by Juha Snell Oy of Finland and built by Kellokoski, Finland, the Ville is powered by a single Hamilton model 271 waterje
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- Waterways Conference Delegates Urge Maritime Industry To Lobby For Repeal Of Shipping Taxes page: 19
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on November 1991Shipping leaders at the recent annual meeting of the National Waterways Conference, charging that the U.S. Government might be taxing the maritime industry out of the global marketplace, called for an uprising to force repeal of recent user fee increases. Panelists at the National Waterways
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on November 1991"Working With Technology" will be the focus of a multitude of technical and educational sessions when the Association of Diving Contractors hosts its annual commercial diving and ROV symposium in Houston, Texas, January 13-15, 1992. Underwater 92 is a three-day program of workshops, presenta
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on November 1991The American Waterways Operators (AWO), the national trade association of the inland and coastal tug and barge industry, will hold its annual AWO Marine Safety Seminar December 4-5, 1991, at the Hyatt Regency at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The seminar agenda features some of the
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on November 1991Volvo Penta has launched a new diesel engine for propelling commercial boats. The engine has the designation TAMD102A and offers considerable competitive advantages for semi-planing and planing boats. The in-line, six-cylinder, 9.6-liter turbo diesel is equipped with an after-cooler which i
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on November 1991In a move to streamline its operations and release a portion of its shipyard property for sale, Galveston Shipbuilding will consolidate its services to a northeast 10-acre section of its 45-acre site in Galveston, Texas, according to owner Harry J. Fiegel Jr. "We just had more space than ne
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on November 1991The John James Audubon, formerly the Bayou Jean Lafitte, has undergone a complete interior renovation designed by Bauer Interiors, Inc., New Orleans, La. The 125-foot excursion vessel, owned and operated by The New Orleans Steamboat Company, will shuttle passengers from the Aquarium of the
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on November 1991The 333-passenger ferry W.L. Callahan was recently delivered by Hydraulic Fishing Supply, Inc., Anacortes, Wash., to the State of Washington. The vessel was designed, built and delivered in a specified contract period of 168 days. Naval architects and marine engineers Elliot Bay Design Group
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on November 1991The award of contracts to develop concept designs for strategic sealift medium-speed, roll-on/rolloff ships of two sizes, 950 feet and 700 feet, was recently announced by the U.S. Navy. Nine shipyards received contracts, each of which carries a value of about $250,000. The yards (in alphabe
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on November 1991S t e i n e r Shipyard, Bayou LaBatre, Ala., has completed the conversion of a 180-foot oil field supply boat into a standby/rescue vessel for use in the U.K. sector of the North Sea. The Veesea Typhoon is one of four standby/rescue vessels that will be operated by a joint venture between Ve
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on November 1991Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., recently turned over the mine countermeasures ship Patriot (MCM-7) to the U.S. Navy. The event is the last significant milestone for the MCM-7 and marks the culmination of 10 years of Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) involvement in mine counte