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on September 1977The State of Alaska has awarded Willamette Iron & Steel Company, Portland, Ore., a $15,228,- 500 contract to lengthen and modernize the M/V Matanuska, an Alaska state ferry. Work will begin in October, with c o m p l e t i o n scheduled for May 1978. WISCO will employ approximately 350 ship
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on September 1977Deputy A s s i s t a n t Secretary- Robert R. Casey, U.S. Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, has approved in principal the application of Moran Trade Corporation (Moran), One World Trade Center, New York, N.Y., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of t
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on September 1977Lockheed and its team of subcontractors have won a contract to evaluate six platform candidates that would carry massive power equipment to generate electricity from ocean water temperature differences. The research program is called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). Work on the 11-mo
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on September 1977McAllister Brothers, Inc., the 113-year-old New York City-based marine transportation company, has announced the appointment of Robert Lounsbery to the post of chief operating officer. Mr. Lounsbery, a 47-year-old graduate of New York University, with a B.S. degree in management, was p r e
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on September 1977Two large crane barges are to be built to Lloyd's Register class by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. for the Heerema Group. A design appraisal will be carried out by the Society's Offshore Services Group, and the barges will be built under survey at the Mitsui Shipyard. The barges wi
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on August 15, 1977The printed proceedings of the first Port of New York Navigational Aids and Communications Conference are now available, it has been announced by the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, the organization that sponsored the three-day event held in New York City recently. The printed
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on August 15, 1977Elmer R. Remkes has been named president of C-E Crest, a Tulsa, Okla.-based subsidiary of Combustion Engineering, Inc., which serves the international gas and oil industries. Before joining C-E Crest, Mr. Remkes was vice president and general manager of Santa Fe Engineering Services Co., Or
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on August 15, 1977On June 30, at the Banker's Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, the captain and 12 crew members of The Ohio River Company towboat M/V Queen City were awarded the nation's highest safety award for their heroism in rescuing four capsized fishermen from the swirling currents of the Ohio River. The award
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on August 15, 1977A computer-based simulator for training engine room officers of supertankers will go into operation early in 1978 under a development contract signed between the Organization for Industrial Research TNO, a Dutch corporation, and Esso Tankvaart Maatschappij B.V., an affiliate of Esso Nederla
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on August 15, 1977Butterworth Systems Inc., a world leader in providing marine and food processing industries with specialized equipment for tank cleaning, underwater hull cleaning and oil/water separation, has relocated its corporate and sales offices to a modern threestory office building at 224 Park Avenu
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on August 15, 1977More than 350 industry visitors, shipowners, shipyard managers, port captains and other top marine people came to take a look at the equipment on display at Electro- Nav's Fifth Annual Navigation and Communications Exhibit held recently at the Whitehall Club in New York City. Mario Yespa of H
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on August 15, 1977Equitable Shipyards, Inc., P.O. Box 8001, New Orleans, La. 70182, has shipped the last two new, 95-foot tugs in a series of five vessels to the Indonesian Government. The vessels were loaded onboard the Letitia Lykes Clipper Ship which departed the port of New Orleans en route to Singapore via
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on August 15, 1977The first two-day Diving and Insurance Symposium to be held in New York City, sponsored by three internationally recognized organizations in the marine industry, will be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel, November 14-15, 1977. The purpose of the Symposium is to provide a common forum for th
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on August 15, 1977The First International Symposium on Computer Aided Hull- Surface Definition (SCAHD 77) will be held in Annapolis, Md., on September 26-27, 1977. The symposium will be presented by Technical & Research Panel 0-34 (Computers), and hosted by the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Arch
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on August 15, 1977President Jimmy Carter, several members of the Cabinet and Congress recently took a close look at the search for oil being conducted by the drilling rig Zapata Yorktown offshore Louisiana. The President and his party toured the semisubmersible rig as the unit continued drilling its first ex
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on August 15, 1977James F. Moseley, a leading admiralty attorney and past president of the Jacksonville Bar Association is the new president of The Propeller Club of the United States Port of Jacksonville (Fla.), an organization that has more exthan 400 members engaged in maritime business in the South Atla
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on August 15, 1977The new Edo Western 515A- 604 Deep Tow Survey System uses a new hydrodynamically designed tow vehicle to provide efficient operation for deepwater side scan surveys in ocean depths up to 2,000 feet. The highly successful 515A- 604 tow vehicle combines an extremely stable tow characteristic
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on August 15, 1977The appointment of Roy F. Dobson as manager of Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Great Lakes Steamship Division was announced by Capt. Steven M. Moodie, vice president of the division. At the same time, Captain Moodie announced that Calvin G. Durham will succeed Mr. Dobson as assistant manager
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on August 15, 1977An 18-member Hong Kong Technical Committee has been formed by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The committee, composed of prominent individuals in maritime affairs, will enable ABS to maintain closer contact with scientific and technical matters relating to shipbuilding and engineerin
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on August 15, 1977A tentative agreement to sell all of its South American shipping operations for about $75 million was announced by Prudential Lines, Inc., a U.S.-flag ocean carrier. The purchaser would be Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of Holiday Inns, Inc. "The proposed sale of the South Ameri