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on November 1978U.S. Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary Robert J. Blackwell spoke at a recent dinner in New York City, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the French classification society, Bureau Veritas. In his brief remarks, Mr. Blackwell praised the Society's record of achievements and respond
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on October 15, 1978Marshall Hatch, president (standing), and Jack Kirk, executive vice president of Hatch & Kirk Inc., Seattle, Wash., has announced the purchase of the assets of the Cleveland Diesel Engine Division from the Electro- Motive Division of General Motors Corporation. Hatch & Kirk Inc. is in the proc
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on October 15, 1978The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) classed 53 vessels worldwide in August, totaling 381,892 deadweight tons or 273,309 gross tons. The vessels classed during the month included one French-built 125,188-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas carrier, one Canadianbuilt drilling vessel, one U.S.-b
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on October 15, 1978Equipped with a unique computerized positioning system, the Saipem Castoro Sei, the world's largest pipelaying barge, began its sea trials in August off the Italian coast. The column-stabilized, semisubmersible barge, which measures 470 by 212 by 98 feet is designed to lay pipe on the floor of
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on October 15, 1978A.L. Burbank & Company, Ltd., New York, N.Y., well-known steamship owners, agents, brokers and consultants to the maritime industry, has announced the election of Peter Burbank to the office of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the company. Mr. Burbank, who since 1955 has be
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on October 15, 1978The following organizational changes have been announced by the Inland Waterways Services Division of Texas Gas Transmission Corporation. D. Ray Miller, vice president of American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL), with previous responsibilities in the area of distribution services, has been named
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on October 15, 1978Shipbuilding experts from the Navy, Maritime Administration and private industry met in Brunswick, Maine, on September 13- 14 as guests of Bath Iron Works to propose and evaluate methods of improving technological capabilities of U.S. shipbuilding. The 25 representatives, from as far as San D
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on October 15, 1978The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers opened the 1978-79 season with Past Chairman's Night on September 19, 1978, at the Whitehall Club in New York City. The Section chairman, David A. O'Neil, introduced all the past chairmen present. Robert
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on October 15, 1978Meeting the opportunities opened up by the 200-mile fishing limit will require a three-quarters of a billion-dollar investment in the Newfoundland fishery over the next 10 years. This was the bottom-line assessment made by the Newfoundland Department of Industrial Development, St. John's, N
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on October 15, 1978"Advanced technology" is a dominant theme for the next in the world series of Oceanology International (01) offshore exhibitions which takes place at Brighton, England, March 3-7, 1980. Many of the exhibiting firms report that new developments in e q u i p m e n t , hardware, i n s t r u -
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on October 15, 1978Joseph M. Heimerl has been named Western Region credit manager for General Electric Credit Corporation's Industrial Equipment Financing Department in San Rafael, Calif. The region office, located at 1000 Fourth Street in San Rafael, directs the operation of district financing offices in San
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on October 15, 1978Chairman John M. Murphy of the Ad Hoc Select Committee on the Outer Continental Shelf applauded the signing by President Carter of S. 9, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978. The new law establishes a revised statutory regime for the management of our offshore oil and ga
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on October 15, 1978The Starlite, second of a new series of 122-foot combination vessels built by Marine Construction and Design Co. (MARCO), was christened August 26, in ceremonies at Shilshole Bay Marina, by Mrs. Aase Mannes, the wife of the vessel's captain, Borge Mannes. The other principal owners of the
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on October 15, 1978Governor George Ariyoshi of Hawaii, and Ocean Minerals Co. of Mountain View, Calif., have jointly announced that a facility to study and test the processing of manganese nodules gathered by the ocean mining vessel Glomar Explorer will be built at Campbell Industrial Park on Oahu, and begin
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on October 15, 1978Governor George Ariyoshi of Hawaii, and Ocean Minerals Co. of Mountain View, Calif., have jointly announced that a facility to study and test the processing of manganese nodules gathered by the ocean mining vessel Glomar Explorer will be built at Campbell Industrial Park on Oahu, and begin
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on October 15, 1978Lloyd's List for September 12, 1978, reported that two 1971-72, 255,000-dwt VLCCs had recently changed hands for some $7 million each. This was somewhat lower than the price level ruling during the first half of 1978, when the average secondhand price for a VLCC was about $38.5 per dwt or,
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on October 15, 1978Kubota, Ltd. is initiating the first stage of its U.S. marketing program for KCP cargo oil pipe with the establishment of stockpiles at Coastal Marine Service, Port Arthur, Texas. Initial inventory of the corrosive resistant centrifugally cast pipe was delivered in late September and includ
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on October 15, 1978Shipping industry leaders will gather at the rim of the Pacific Basin late this month to outline their views on the shape of a progressive national maritime policy at the 3rd Annual Port of Oakland International Transportation Conference Oct. 25 and 26. The dialogue will involve analysis fr
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on October 15, 1978The AWO board of directors, at their fall quarterly meeting in Tulsa, Okla., on September 13-14, elected James B. Potter Jr. as the Association's fourth president in its 34-year history. Mr. Potter, prior to his election as AWO's chief executive, was a self-employed businessman in Leesburg, Va
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on October 15, 1978Webb Institute of Naval Architecture has announced the appointment of Jacques B. Hadler as director of Webb's Center for Maritime Studies. In this capacity, he will direct the research activities of Webb Institute. He will join the staff immediately on a part-time basis and assume full resp