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on March 1974Over the last three years, the volume of ship repair work handled 'by Keppel Shipyard (Private) Ltd., Singapore, has more than doubled, and the point has now been reached when investment in new facilities is essential if the company is to continue to grow. Over the last two years, several c
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on March 1974Nathaniel Robbins Jr. has been named president of the Grafton Boat Co., a company which was recently acquired by a group of Minneapolis investors. Grafton Boat Co. is a designer and builder of commercial and Government towboats and workboats. The company also repairs barges and manufactures
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on March 1974Alyeska Pipeline Service Company— The agent company formed to design, ibuild, operate and maintain the Trans-Alaska Pipeline for the seven owners: Amerada Hess Corporation; ARCO Pipe Line Company; Exxon Pipe Line Company; Mobil Pipe Line Company; Phillips 'Petroleum Company; Sohio Pipe Line
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on March 1974The Commandant of the Coast Guard has announced the appointment of three additional members to the service's Towing Industry Advisory Committee (TIAC), including former astronaut and retired Navy Captain, James A. Lovell. Captain Lovell is now senior executive vice president of Bay- Houston
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on March 1974Ingram Barge Company, a division of Ingram Corporation, New Orleans, La., has signed a 10-year contract valued at approximately $150 million with Commonwealth Edison Company of Chicago for the transporting of up to 20 million barrels annually of low sulphur #6 fuel oil from the New Orleans a
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on March 1974A realignment of functions and the appointment of key personnel, which affect traffic, and operations and stevedoring, were announced at American Mail Line, Seattle, Wash.-based division of American President Lines, Ltd. The changes, which became effective on February 1, followed the resigna
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on March 1974Appointments to the position of president, vice president-controller, and vice president, sales and marketing, have recently been announced by the Johnston Pump Company. Johnston, headquartered in Glendora, Calif., is a leading manufacturer of vertical pumps for process, power, marine, agric
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- Todd Shipyards Los Angeles Division To Build Four 89,700-Dwt Tankers At A Total Cost Of $136 Million page: 11
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on March 1974Todd Shipyards Corporation recently announced that it has signed contracts for the construction of four 89,700-dwt tankers at approximately $34 million per vessel. Two of the tankers will be built for subsidiaries of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., and the other two are to be constructed f
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on March 1974Stuart C. Jones has 'been appointed special assistant to general manager of Todd's Los Angeles Division to assume responsibility for development, planning, and construction scheduling of the new 89,- 700-dwt tankers now on order. Mr. Jones has a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institu
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on March 1974Nathan Friedland, well-known naval architect and an instructor in the design of offshore drilling units, has joined Santa Fe Engineering Services as manager of marine design. Mr. Friedland will be in charge of the design and development of offshore vessels to be operated by the drilling and
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on March 1974The American Ship Building Company has received a $40-million contract for. the construction of barges and towboats, it was announced by Jacob O. Kamm, president. "This is the largest single contract ever received by our Nashville Bridge Company, the division which will build the barges and
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on March 1974Leonard H. Pert has been named manager-operations for the United States Lines Eastern Division, it was announced by William J. Kee- 1y, Eastern Division vice president of the company. In his new post, Mr. Pert will direct operations at all the company's Eastern Seaboard installations, includ
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on March 1974Dravo Corporation recently launched the most powerful towboat ever .built for use on the world's inland waterways. Splashing into the Ohio River on January 31 at the company's Neville Island shipyard near Pittsburgh, Pa., the 10,100-horsepower vessel will join the fleet of The Valley Line Comp
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on March 1974The Tenth Naval Hydrodynamics Symposium will be held June 24-28, 1974 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. This internationally recognized symposium has been held biennially since 1956, alternately in this country and abroad. This year, the symposium is being spon
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on March 1974The U.S. Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, has awarded a $197,362 Research & Development contract to M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers of New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, to assess future opportunities for large shallow-draft bulk c
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on February 15, 1974Victor Bericochea, vice president, has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of Berwind Lines Inc. of San Juan, Puerto Rico, announced board chairman Hugh McComas. Mr. McComas also announced that he himself has assumed the presidency of the maritime cargo line
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on February 15, 1974Richard G. Popovici has been named assistant manager of commercial 'operations at Raytheon Company's Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, R.I. In addition to expanded duties in all commercial activities of the division, Mr. Popovici will continue in his present role as manager of the Ocea
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on February 15, 1974Alexis Nichols (Nicolacopoulos) has been named vice president of Brokerage & Management Corp., 76 Beaver Street, New York, N.Y. 10005, it was announced by G. Callimanopulos, president. Mr. Nichols joined Brokerage & Management in 1972 as operations manager. Before that, he was marine claims
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- Management Changes At Dearborn-Storm page: 36
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on February 15, 1974Dearborn-Storm Corporation, Chicago, 111., operators of offshore drilling equipment, announced the following management changes acted upon at the recent board of directors meeting. Arthur Weiss, formerly president of Dearborn-Storm, was named chairman of the board and chief executive office
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on February 15, 1974The board of directors of Diamond M Drilling Company, Houston, TexasJbased international drilling contractor, has authorized the construction of two new selfelevating jackup drilling rigs and a self-propelled semisubmersible drilling vessel. The jackups are to be constructed at Levingston S