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on December 1980New England Electric System of Westboro, Mass., has announced plans for the construction of a 655-foot coal-carrying ship at General Dynamics' Quincy Shipbuilding Division. The $60-million vessel is the first of its type to be built in the United States in more than 25 years. The coal carrier
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on December 1980More than 300 senior Texaco marine engineering officers will receive advanced training on a unique 36,000-shp engine room simulator, James A. Cole, vice president in charge of Texaco's Marine Department, announced recently. "Under a four-year contract recently signed with MarineSafety Internat
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on December 1980Seaspan International Ltd. of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, recently took delivery of the Seaspan Rigger, a new log barge (pictured above) that was commissioned by Mrs. William Sloan, wife of the the president of Pacific Logging Company Ltd. Designed by Robert Allen Ltd. to load and carry bu
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on December 1980Ogden Marine Indonesia, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden Marine, Inc., New York, has applied to the Maritime Administration for conconstruction- differential subsidy (CDS), and amended its 1975 application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three liquefied natural ga
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on November 15, 1980MacGregor Land & Sea, Inc. has appointed Maxwell S. Graham to the post of operations manager of its New York area service station. Being the nation's largest port, this assignment is a key position in MacGregor's rapidly expanding marine service network. Not only will Mr. Graham direct a te
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on November 15, 1980Bernard Ambroseno is the newly elected president of the Wild Goose Association, an international organization for individuals with a common interest in Loran. He comes to the office well equipped with a background rich in Loran work. He is currently the Loran product manager for navigation
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on November 15, 1980The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its first meeting of the 1980-81 year at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. Chairman Donald E. Kane Jr. of Newport News Shipbuilding opened the meeting by welcoming the 110 members and guests present and p
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on November 15, 1980Brown Marine Service, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one single-skin tank barge and one double-skin tank barge. The single- skin barge will have a 20,000- barrel capacity; the double-skin bar
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on November 15, 1980The bid opening date for the Maritime Prepositioning Ship has been extended from November 18, 1980 to January 19, 1981, to permit additional time for the preparation of bids. The Maritime Administration originally extended the invitation for sealed bids on the first two vessels in this new
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on November 15, 1980The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application by Parker Towing Co., Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing 33 hopper barges, two doubleskinned petroleum tank barges, one towboat, and the reconditioning of two towboats and four used hopper
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on November 15, 1980Wendle Huddleston of Morgan City, La., announced that his Pascagoula, Miss., company, Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), has marked its reentry into the towboat market with the recent delivery of the 70-foot towboat Belgian to Spanier Marine of New Orleans. Belgian was christened at the G
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on November 15, 1980As the first step in a fleet modernization program, an order has been placed for construction of the world's newest luxury cruise ship, it was announced recently by Holland America Cruises. The keel of the new 32,000-gt motor vessel, yet to be named, will be laid in January 1981 at Chantier
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on November 15, 1980Coastal Towing, Inc., Texas, a subsidiary of Coastal Towing, Inc., Houston, has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of six tank barges and two towboats. All of the vessels are to be used in the inland waters of the United State
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on November 15, 1980The burgeoning Chinese shipbuilding industry has become the newest member of the worldwide MacGregor organization. It was welcomed into the ranks of those countries already benefitting from the world's leading cargo-handling equipment designs, at a recent signing ceremony in Paris. Under th
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on November 15, 1980A paper titled "T-AO 'Commercial' Fleet Oiler" by Clayton W. Davis, John F. Ince, and I. David Gessow, all of the Maritime Administration Office of Ship Construction, was presented to a meeting of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently. The T
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on November 15, 1980Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. of New Orleans, a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation, has set up container freight stations at Atlantic, Gulf, and interior cities for intermodal service via the West Coast to and from the Far East. This arrangement allows a shipper to move his cargo between t
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on November 15, 1980James T. Traylor has been appointed general manager of Halter Marine's Chickasaw, Ala., division, according to James Steadman vice president-special assignments. Before joining Halter, Mr. Traylor had been associated with Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss., for five years as special as
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on November 15, 1980Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. has announced a $4.7-million contract to provide generator sets for a Spanish Navy aircraft carrier. The company will supply three 2,500-kw "high shock" gas turbine generator sets by mid- 1982 to the prime contractor, Empresa Nacional Bazan Shipyard in Spa
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on November 15, 1980A manual ullage tape installation, which makes it possible to gauge tanks visually under closed loading conditions, has been accepted for tanker and barge use by both the U.S. Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping. Developed by VU-GAGE Systems, the installation is said to eliminate th
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on November 15, 1980The first oil-drilling rig constructed in Alaska by an Alaskan firm recently was unveiled by its owner and operator, VANguard Industries. The 175-foot-high rig was begun in November 1979 as a joint venture by VECO, Inc. of Anchorage, and three Alaskan native organizations—NANA Development C