1978 Articles
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on December 1978Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass.—a leading supplier of marine propulsion and maneuvering systems—has named Erwin (Ed) D. Green Great Lakes regional manager, and has appointed Carl R. Nielson sales engineer for the Gulf Coast. In their respective positions, both will be responsible for t
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on December 1978William W. Crossman has been named assistant vice president- Marketing of Moore McCormack Bulk Transport, Inc., and assistant vice president-Marketing and Administration of Moore McCormack LNG Transport, Inc., it was announced by Capt. J.A.A. van Lier, president of both companies, which are
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on December 1978James B. Potter Jr., president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., viewed the October 21 signing of the waterway user tax bill into law with "cautious anticipation," and called it "an important first step leading toward the replacement of Locks and Dam 26." The bill, H.R. 8533, signe
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on December 1978New responsibilities have been assigned to four Magnavox executives as a result of the accelerating growth pattern of the company's Advanced Products Division, according to Arthur P. Stern, senior vice president of Magnavox Government and Industrial Electronics Company and general manager of
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on December 1978A new $20-million self-elevating jackup rig is going into service in the Gulf of Mexico, Ross A. McClintock, president of Fluor Drilling Services, announced. The vessel is contracted to Samedan Oil Corporation of Oklahoma for one year, with options. Operated by the Coral Division of FDS, a su
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on December 1978The Institute of Marine Engineers, Eastern U.S.A. Branch, held its first meeting of the 1978-79 season on October 31 at the Seamen's Church Institute in New York City. Guest speaker for the occasion was W.R.O. Mann, B.A., C.Eng., Fellow I.M.E. Mr. Mann is engineering superintendent for BP Tank
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on December 1978The Navy's M i l i t a r y S e a l i f t Command has issued a request for proposals (November 8) to operate five command-controlled tankers that deliver petroleum products worldwide for the Department of Defense. The T-5 type tankers now are operated by Hudson Waterways Corp. of New York Ci
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on December 1978Seventeen stevedoring and marine terminal companies were honored in New York City for safety efforts over the past two years that helped reduce the frequency of accidents among some 11,000 waterfront workers in the bistate Port of New York and New Jersey. They were cited at a special awards
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on December 1978Nickum & Spaulding Associates, Inc. of Seattle, Wash., has completed the design of a 100- foot crab boat for Stuart Ferris of Kodiak, Alaska. The boat will be built by Mitchell D. Phares/ Boat Construction, 221 Mar Vista Avenue, Wilmington, Calif. The boat will be delivered in the spring of
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on December 1978The first heavy lift ships ever built in a U.S. shipyard, the John Henry and the Paul Bunyan, were christened recently at the shipyard of Peterson Builders, Inc. in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. They are owned by American Heavy Lift Shipping Company (AHL), a joint venture of Gulf Trading & Transportati
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on December 1978An extensive line of self-generating electric tachometers with v a r i o u s magnetos, indicators, drives, and accessories is described in a new catalog available from the Electric Tachometer Corp. The 12-page catalog shows the many stock variations of the company's Model 120 line, includin
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on December 1978Patrick J. Marcello has been elected vice president of Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., according to F. Robert Black, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Headquartered in Providence, R.I., Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., serves over 50 ports from Maine to Texas, through eight of
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on December 1978The General Electric Credit Corporation (GECC), Stamford, Conn., announced it has acquired through a leveraged lease transaction its 12th tanker, the 188,- 500-dwt B.T. San Diego, from National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego, Calif. Purchase price of the new vessel, which complet
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on December 1978The appointment of Geoffrey VV. Hands as president and chief operating officer of Worthington Compressors, Inc., Holyoke, Mass., effective January 1,1979, has been announced. Mr. Hands, presently president of Worthington-Turbodyne International, Inc., Brussels, Belgium, will be headquartere
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on December 1978Dredge Technology Corporation, a company owned jointly by IHC Holland and John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., has been selected to provide dredging equipment for the new dredge Eagle I, owned by Eagle Dredging Corporation, a joint venture of Royal Adriaan Volker Company of Rotterdam, Holland
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on December 1978The recently completed M/S Boogabilla is classed by its builders and owners as the third generation of deepsea roll-on/roll-off vessels. The ship incorporates several new items for this type of vessel, such as a largebore, slow-speed diesel engine; three parallel trafficways, and a jumbo angle
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on December 1978Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has opened an office in the Washington, D.C. area, located at 2300 Ninth Street, South, Arlington, Va. 22204. It will be headed by Robert C. Case, who has been named director of special projects. "In this capacity," stated company president Howard H. Sc
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on December 1978Harmon F. Hoffmann has been appointed vice president and general manager, Marketing, for Mobil Oil Corporation's U.S. Marketing and R e f i n i n g D i v i s i o n , succeeding William V. Butler, who has elected early retirement at the end of this year. Mr. Hoffmann, who since 1976 has serv
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on December 1978Global Transport Organisation, San Francisco, has formed a separate division for international tug and barge transports which will be headed by G.A. Watkins, according to a recent announcement by Leo L. Collar, chairman of GTO's Management Committee. GTO already has established a reputation
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on December 1978A group of 41 members of Congress have banded together to form a bipartisan Congressional Shipyard Coalition that will direct its efforts toward the promotion of federal policies which will expand American shipbuilding and repairing. At a news conference, Lindy Boggs (Dem.-La.) and Paul S.