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on December 15, 1980President John F. Sullivan Jr. of Bath Iron Works recently announced 16 key appointments in a major managerial realignment to strengthen the shipyard's production and marketing capabilities. "We are pleased that all the appointments came from within the company," he said. "They reflect the
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on December 15, 1980Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maritime Affairs, Maritime Administration, Bruce A. McAllister has approved in principle an application by Oglebay Norton Co., Cleveland, Ohio, for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a self-unloading bulk vessel. The 61,500-deadweight
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on December 1980Neorion Shipyards Syros Ltd. has appointed Wesley D. Wheeler to act as thenexclusive agent in the USA. The facility is on the island of Syros, Greece, ancient capital of the Cyclades Islands in the Aegean Sea. Syros is a Mediterranean crossroads located close to the Dardanelles and the Suez C
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on December 1980A Canadian invention said to reduce the power needed to tow loaded barges by up to 30 percent, introduced in 1976, has seen successful operation for the past four years fitted to a fleet of four 400-foot by 100- foot by 25-foot, 16,500-dwt semisubmerging barges. Developed by Seaspan Developme
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on December 1980McDermott Incorporated announced that its Shipyard Group has purchased 70 additional acres in the Bayou Bernard Industrial District north of Gulfport, Miss., to expand the shipbuilding and repair facilities of its Gulfport Division. Located on the Industrial Seaway approximately a mile east o
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on December 1980An updated 88-page Pipe Installation Guide from Fiberglass Resources Corporation of Farmingdale, N.Y., contains all the necessary information required for field personnel to correctly assemble, test, and repair epoxyfiberglass piping systems. The convenient, pocket-sized manual has the need
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on December 1980The marine consulting firm of McQuade-Cormany A s s o c i a t e s, New York, will conduct a special trade and transportation survey on behalf of a group of labor, management, and state government officials striving to increase international commerce and shipping through Great Lakes ports an
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on December 1980Texaco Overseas Tankship Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco Inc., has purchased the 79,997- dwt tanker Globtik Windsor from Globtik Tankers London Limited. The ship, which has been renamed Texaco Windsor, was handed over in Singapore recently. The tanker will carry crude oil or heavy
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on December 1980ITT Grinnell Valve Company, Inc. of Providence, R.I., recently introduced the Dyna-Lok highperformance butterfly valve. The new valve is designed to extend the range of conventional butterfly valves with shutoff capabilities of steel gate and ball valves. Use of this product is intended to
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on December 1980A line of multi-stage, donuttype pumps, called Multi-Line, from the Worthington Pump Division of the McGraw-Edison Company, is designed to provide high pressure at high efficiency on continuous service. They allow flexibility in service capabilities simply by changing the number of stages,
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration has consolidated its marketing, domestic shipping, and port and i n t e r m o d a l programs, and restructured the management of its research and development activities This reorganization transfers responsibility for the Offices of Market Development and Port an
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on December 1980John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., naval architects, marine engineers, and consultants of New York, has announced that Richard W. Thorpe Jr. has joined the company as vice president-corporate planning and development. He will report directly to George A. Sawyer, president of the company. Mr
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on December 1980Big job torque converters for oilfield and industrial applications are described in a new six-page brochure from National Supply Company. The torque converters are designed for large prime movers of up to 2,000 hp, says the piece, and for tasks involving high load shocks. Typical application
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on December 1980New marine air-conditioning fan coil units, in either chilled water or direct expansion cooling modes, are now available from Adrick Cooling Corporation. Models can be supplied in 200-, 300-, 400-, and 600-cfm capacities. The new units feature threespeed motors and boxed controls, with a th
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have announced an interagency program to develop the nation's capacity to destroy hazardous wastes at sea aboard specially equipped, hightemperature incinerator ships. In a report released recently, the agencies jointl
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on December 1980Tenn-Tom Towing, Inc., Fairhope, Ala., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two steel oil barges and one twinscrew towboat. The 264-foot-long barges will be built by Nashville Bridge Company, Nashville, Tenn. Rayco Shipb
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on December 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company of Jacksonville, Fla., has announced the appointment of Donald W. Jett as vice president-contracts and administration. He joined the company in 1977 as chief engineer, and has been involved significantly in the overall operation of the firm.
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration has entered into an $860,000 costshared research contract with the Engine and Compressor Division of Transamerica Delaval Inc., Oakland, Calif., to measure the performance levels of emulsified fuel oil-water mixtures used to power diesel engines. MarAd's share wi
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on December 1980Hoffert Manufacturing Company of Jacksonville, Fla., recently reported it has successfully produced, without the aid of Federal energy grants, a perfected fuel oil/water emulsion system called Fire-Brite. A Fire-Brite installation aboard a ship, according to the Hoffert announcement, has ef
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on December 1980James W. Church has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director of project engineering. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval architects and marine engineering with offices in New York, Washington, and Galveston.