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on June 15, 1976The San Diego Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers held its May meeting at the Admiral Kidd Commissioned Officers' Club. Rear Adm. Albert J. Monger, USN, Commander, Aircraft Carrier Group One, was the guest speaker. His topic was the interrelationship between ship operating an
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on June 15, 1976James P. McAllister, chairman of the board of McAllister Brothers, Inc., the 112-year-old marine transportation company, was honored on five separate occasions during World Trade Week. Culmination of years of effort in promoting the Port of New York came into sharp focus on Monday, when Mr.
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on June 15, 1976The Waterways Company recently announced that agreements have been signed with Delta Shipyard, division of Chromalloy American Corporation. Walter Todd, president of The Waterways Company, stated that an exclusive licensing agreement covering manufacture of the STEERMASTER Bow Steering Sys
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on June 15, 1976Kenneth E. Sheehan has been appointed counsel to the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and its subsidiaries, it was announced by Robert T. Young, chairman and president of the international ship classification society. Mr. Sheehan will provide inhouse counsel on legal matters concerning th
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on June 15, 1976Tacoma Boatbuilding Company of Tacoma, Wash., recently launched its first tug/supply vessel for Tidewater Marine of New Orleans, La. The Sun Tide is the first of two being built under a $12-million contract. The 218-foot vessel has four engines supplying the oceangoing workboat with 7,800 h
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on June 15, 1976The U.S. Coast Guard certification of Microphor's unique biological marine sewage treatment systems for commercial marine vessels has been announced by John M. Mayfield Jr., president of Microphor, Inc. The northern California manufacturer has installed thousands of systems for the transpor
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on June 15, 1976W.J. Hindson has been appointed general manager, tactics and economic analysis in the Supply and Transportation Department of Gulf Trading and Transportation Company. A.J. Monaghan, formerly manager, fleet operations, has been named to succeed Mr. Hindson as general manager, crude and fleet
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on June 15, 1976The Gdynia America Line, Inc., general agents for Centromor, has announced the publication of a new brochure describing the facilities and capabilities of the United Polish Shipyards (UPS). UPS in Gdansk, Poland, is the general managing institution for the entire shipbuilding industry in Po
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on June 15, 1976Bethlehem Steel Corporation has signed an agreement with Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard Company to represent the latter as a ship repair sales agent in the United States. The agreement was announced jointly in New York by Gilford Rossi, chairman of the board of directors of Arab Shipbuildi
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on June 15, 1976David H. Green has been elected executive vice president of Savannah Machine and Shipyard Co., Lathrop Avenue, Savannah, Ga. 31402, according to an announcement by Robert F. Sherman, president. Mr. Green is a graduate of Fort Trumbull Maritime School and the Johns Hopkins University. He is
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on June 15, 1976William J. Kearney has been named president and chief operating officer of the Ingalls Companies, P.O. Box 2527, Birmingham, Ala. 35202. The announcement was made by Mrs. Elesabeth Ingalls Gillet and Mrs. Barbara Ingalls Shook, co-chairmen of the Ingalls Companies. At the same time, James W
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on June 15, 1976Arthur C. Novacek, president of Morflot America Inc., has announced that MORAM's newly established U.S. corporate headquarters is now fully operational. From MORAM's new U.S. headquarters at 67 Walnut Avenue, Clark, N.J. 07066, Mr. Novacek said: "As U.S. agents for Fesco Lines, MORAM is now
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on June 15, 1976Marland Environmental Systems, Inc., 57 West Avenue, Wayne, Pa. 19087, has named four distributors for the firm's sewage treatment equipment. These representatives are: East Coast — Atco Marine Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Gulf Coast — Russ- Taylor Company, New Orleans, La.; California — We
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on June 15, 1976EDO Corporation, College Point, N.Y. 11356, a pioneer designer and manufacturer of avionics, oceanographic and electronic equipment, has announced that it has increased its overseas business with the receipt of an order of slightly more than $7 million from a foreign customer. Anticipated s
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on June 15, 1976A $12-million computerized marine simulator was unveiled in May at the Maritime Administration's Computer-Aided Operations Research Facility (CAORF) at Kings Point, N.Y., by Robert J. Blackwell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs. Described as the world's most sophisticated
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on June 15, 1976At the annual meeting of Skaarup Shipping Corporation, held at the company's headquarters at 475 Steamboat Road, Greenwich, Conn., Ole Skaarup, founder and chairman of the board, announced the appointment of Stig Host, vice chairman, as chief executive officer of the corporation. Skaarup Sh
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on June 15, 1976Vicinay Chain Company, Inc., recently opened the firm's new manufacturing plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, with an official inauguration. Larry Moncus, president of Vicinay Chain Company and Vicinay International Company, presided during the ceremonies and introduced the members of the firm,
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on June 15, 1976The Fjelldrill (shown on the cover), an offshore mat-supported jackup drilling platform designed and built by Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont (Texas) shipyard, was recently commissioned. The vessel is owned by the Olsen and Ugelstad group of Oslo, Norway. Construction of the Fjelldri
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on June 15, 1976The largest shiplift system in the world was placed into operation with the commissioning of the Syncrolift owned by Astilleros Canarios, S.A., at Las Palmas, Canary Islands. With a platform 562 feet 10 inches long by 98 feet 5 inches wide, the Syncrolift can lift vessels up to 25,000 deadwe
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on June 15, 1976Global Transport Organization (GTO), a San Francisco, Calif.- based transportation group, has announced the formation of a firm to operate ro/ro barge service between Europe and Saudi Arabia. The new firm has been named Euro-Arab Sea Trailer (EAST). Leo Collar, GTO's managing director, sai