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on June 15, 1976With the Spring Class of Mississippi State University, well over 50 graduates of the Marine Engineering Technology Curriculum will enter the growing shipbuilding industry in the South. Each year, thus far, the senior class has worked on a project which is directed toward a topical situation an
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on June 15, 1976The construction of the spherical, aluminum, LNG tanks for ships built to the Moss Rosenberg Verft A.S. design require skillful forming, machining and welding of the shell plates. For Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., of Japan, this skill is being furnished by Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales a
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on June 15, 1976The 1976 edition of The New York Port Handbook, the authoritative source book of information on transportation and air and maritime related services and supply organizations, world trade and government agencies in the port region, has been published by The Maritime Association of the Port o
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on June 15, 1976Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Me., the wholly owned shipbuilding subsidiary of Congoleum Corporation, recently launched the third in a series of four rollon/ roll-off ships now under construction for States Steamship Company of San Francisco, Calif. The roll-on/roll-off ship, which is
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on June 15, 1976David L. Abbott has joined Konel Corporation as West Coast Area manager. The appointment was announced by Ken Leondar, general manager of the South San Francisco, Calif.-based marine electronics and communications company. Mr. Abbott will be responsible for dealer relations on the West Coa
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on June 15, 1976The board of directors of Dubai Petroleum Company (DPC) recently announced the election of Howard A. McKinley as president. DPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Continental Oil Company (Conoco) and operator for a group of international companies producing oil offshore the Arabian Gulf Sheikh
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on June 15, 1976Canadian National Railways has established a separate operating entity for its waterborne activities, Robert Bandeen, president, recently announced in Montreal. To be known as CN Marine, the new division will initially comprise CN's East Coast marine What is the single best commercial SSB s
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on June 15, 1976William H. Blaylock Jr. has joined Energy Transportation Corporation, 540 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., as safety coordinator. Upon completion of studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Blaylock served with the U.S. Coast Guard for over 26 years as recruit training instructor, op
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on June 15, 1976Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. is a newly established corporation in the Washington, D.C., area, formed by Simon Glatz as president, together with Otto Jons as vice president of engineering, John T. Drewry, vice president of operations, and Jay Dor, director of management sciences. The c
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on June 15, 1976Paul Semack, president of Marine Transport Service, Inc., 40 Rector Street, New York, N.Y. 10006, has announced the appointment of Capt. Boleslaw Szolkowski as senior vice president- operations. Captain Szolkowski previously served as senior vice presidento p e r a t i o n s for Transameric
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on June 15, 1976The Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its sixth meeting of the 1975-76 season at the Bethesda Naval Hospital Officers' Club at which a paper on high-speed-ship structural dynamics was presented. Following a social hour and dinner, chairman Ronal
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on June 15, 1976The badly fire-damaged M/V Lillian G has been completely repaired and extensively modified at Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation's shipyard in Greenville, Miss. According to John Nichols, president of Mississippi Marine, the 1,700-hp, 90-foot by 30-foot by 10-foot Lillian G, owned by Mon
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on June 15, 1976Thomas B. Crowley, board chairman and president of Crowley Maritime Corporation, has been named "Transportation Man of the Year" by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA). This honor is bestowed annually on the person who has contributed t
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on June 15, 1976Hovermarine Transport Limited, the Southampton, Englandbased manufacturers of the HM.2 Mark III Hoverferry, has announced the first sale of their 65-passenger craft in Japan. Hovermarine decided more than two years ago to mount an extensive marketing effort in the Far East, with particular
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on June 15, 1976Richard V. Warden, president of ITT Decca Marine, Inc., 40 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019, has announced the appointment of Peter Bauer as product line manager of echosounders, autopilots and gyrocompasses, of the newly formed Products Management Group; John G. Smith as manager, com
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on June 15, 1976The Texaco South America, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) of 270,000 deadweight tons built for Texaco's international fleets by Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste S.A. (ASTANO), was christened recently in ceremonies at the ASTANO shipyard in El Ferrol del Caudillo, Spain. Sponsor of the T
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on June 15, 1976The 28th annual spring meeting of the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, La. Activities began the evening before the meeting with a "warmup" cocktail party on the steamer Natchez. Approximately 100 members, wive
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on June 15, 1976Robert J. Brennan of New Orleans, La., has been elected executive vice president of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., it was announced by chairman Joseph T. Lykes Jr. Mr. Brennan is also a member of the Lykes board of directors. As executive vice president, he fills the vacancy created when
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on June 15, 1976Mobile Marine Associates, Inc., a new company with offices at 951 Government Street, Mobile, Ala. 36604, was formed by R.H. Roemer to engage in the general business of providing consultative services regarding engineering, economics and transportation systems ; perform vessel surveys, and a
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on June 15, 1976Todd Shipyards Corporation, in a move to further strengthen its management at the Los Angeles Division, announced the appointment of Hans K. Schaefer as assistant general manager of that division. Mr. Schaefer was previously assistant general managerproduction of the Seattle Division. Mr. S