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on April 1980A chaser (anchor retrieval device) claimed to save rig operators between $100,000 and $300,- 000 a rig year has been developed by Bruce Anchor Ltd. The features which make the patent-protected Bruce chaser of special significance as an anchor retrieval device are its ability to slide freely
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on April 1980A contract has been awarded by Phillips Petroleum Exploration U.K., Ltd. to Equipments Mecaniques et Hydrauliques (E.M.H.) for the design, supply and installation of an articulated loading column (ALC) for offshore tanker mooring and crude oil loading in the Maureen Field of the North Sea.
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on April 1980John M. Donnelly Jr., president of Ingram Barge Company, Nashville, Tenn., was elected chairman of the board of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., at the Association's annual board of directors meeting in Houston, Texas. AWO is the national trade association of the barge and towing ind
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on April 1980The 23,000-ton submarine tender McKee, last of three of the 644-foot auxiliary ships Lockheed Shipbuilding is constructing for the U.S. Navy, was recently launched at Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Ingeborg von Finckh McKee, widow of Rear Adm. Andrew Irwin McKee, christened the ship before it slid down
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on April 1980A full-color brochure is available describing the facilities and services of Port Houston Marine, Inc., Houston, Texas. Port Houston Marine, Inc. is located at the turning basin of Houston Ship Channel, and has a berth for vessels up to 600 feet long and 2 0 - f o o t d r a f t . Compressed
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on April 1980American Hydromath Company, Germantown, N.Y., recently delivered three L O A D O S C O PE Cargo Planning Computers to the American Heavy Lift Shipping Company, a division of Gulf Trading & Transportation Company; one each for the John Henry and 0 Paul Bunyan, and one to be placed and used
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on April 1980Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered the Tara Alyene, a new supply boat, to her owners, Briley Marine of Lafayette, La. The new vessel, built with the cooperation of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc., is 180 feet long, with a 38-foot beam and 14-foot draft. She can carry 3,
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on April 1980The 4th International Conference And Exhibition The 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Roll-On Roll-Off Transportation will be held from April 15-17, 1980 in Monte Carlo at the new Convention Centre. The Principality of Monaco is l o c a t e d midway between the French and Ital
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on April 1980Lester Rosenblatt, president of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, recently announced the following committee chairmen for 1980: Vice president—Advisory Public Service Committee—Donald P. Courtsal, vice president and general manager, Dravo Corporation, E n g i n e e r i n
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on April 1980The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has been authorized to act as a "Certified Verification Agent" by the Geological Survey of the United States Department of the Interior to ensure that offshore fixed platforms and other structures meet federal standards. The standards apply to fixed stru
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on April 1980A new single-sideband radiotelephone designed for small commercial vessels, while meeting FCC requirements for use as a shore station, has been introduced by the ITT Mackay Marine Division of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Measuring less than 5 inches high, 14 inches wid
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on April 1980XPLO Corp., a New Orleans, La., firm specializing in underwater explosives technology and s a l v a g e o p e r a t i o n s , has been awarded a $3.3-million contract by the U.S. Coast Guard, which calls for the demolition and removal of the center span and piers of the Central New Jersey (C
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on April 1980William J. St. John Jr. has been reelected to a second term as president of the New Orleans Traffic and Transportation Bureau. Mr. St. John, senior vice president of W.R. Zanes & Co., was elected at the bureau's annual meeting at the New Orleans Board of Trade. Other o f f i c e r s for 1980
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on April 1980A new 46-page Marine Catalog issued by the Robert H. Wager Co., Inc., provides current specifications and descriptive detail on the company's extensive line of Wager vent valves and smoke indicators, and on a variety of boiler accessories. These Wager boiler accessories include viewports, b
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on April 1980The Marine Division of J.M. Voith GmbH recently elected E. Shaprut to head their Voith Schneider America branch. The establishment of this branch is designed to further enhance and improve direct services to the American market. Mr. Shaprut is a graduate naval architect and marine engineer
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on April 1980Minshall G. Strater has been appointed Northeast sales manager, Commercial Products, of EPSCO Marine, Division of EPSCO, Inc. He succeeds George E. Lariviere, who now holds the position of g e n e r a l manager of EPSCO's new Gulf Coast office in New Orleans, La. In his new position, Mr. St
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on April 1980Brown Marine Service, Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., and Peltz Brothers, Inc. of Norfolk, Va., have been named stocking distributors for Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) products in their respective areas. T. Ray Jackson, vice president of NABRICO, said Peltz Brothers would represent NABRICO in
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on April 1980Posidonia 80, the international shipping exhibition, is expected to be the most representative show ever. Over 600 companies from 40 countries will exhibit their hardware and services in Piraeus, Greece, June 2-7. Posidonia 80 is sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Mercantile Marine, the Uni
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on April 1980With construction underway on four newly designed W-MEC 270- foot cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard, Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. has expedited completion of a new 8.6-acre shipyard near its two other main yards on Puget Sound's Commencement Bay. "We broke ground for the new yard in April 1978, a
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on April 1980Two oceanographic research vessels, one for the University of Mexico, the other for the University of Bergen, Norway, will be built by the Norwegian firm A / S Mjellem & Karlsen, specialists in the design and construction of such vessels. Both universities will be carrying out similar investig