1981 Articles
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on July 15, 1981An order for a Single Point Mooring terminal, valued at approximately $5 million, has been awarded to IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International Corporation, by Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil. To be sited in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil in 338 feet of water, the terminal will p
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on July 15, 1981Following the recent announcement by Suez Canal authorities that new beam and draft regulations have gone into effect for the 120-mile waterway, a circular giving specifics is available from Candia Shipping (USA), Inc. as a service to the U.S. shipping industry. "As a major specialist in at
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on July 15, 1981Robert Ware, editor of MARITIME REPORTER / Engineering News, has announced the establishment of his own firm, Robert Ware Associates (RWA). Effective with the completion of this issue, July 15, Mr. Ware will leave his position as editor of MR/EN to devote full time to his new career. Prior
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on July 15, 19816Construction is under way on a seagoing barge that includes in its equipment the first loop-belt type self-unloading conveyor system specifically designed to handle blended wet phosphate rock. The 610- by 78-foot barge is being built by the Bay Shipbuilding Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,
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on July 15, 1981Butterworth Systems Inc. has announced that eight product carriers now under construction at Hellenic Shipyards, Athens, Greece, will be outfitted with a total of 506 Butterworth® tank cleaning machines. Included are 300 Butterworth P-60 machines that will be deck-mounted, plus 206 fixed-in
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on July 15, 1981The Naval Sea Systems Command recently awarded the Los Angeles Division of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation a $384,382 producibility study contract for DDGX, the Navy's next generation guided missile destroyer. Todd will investigate techniques to modify contract design data packages to im
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on July 15, 1981The launching ceremony for a new ship, Yard No. 1143, was performed recently at the M.A.N. Division GHH Sterkrade dock construction yard, Nordenham/Blexen, by Mrs. Franziska Ewen, the wife of the West German Member of Parliament Carl Ewen (Aurich/Emden). Another ship of the same design, the Y
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on July 15, 1981J.E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott Incorporated, has announced the election of four additional vice presidents. Anton Salem has been elected vice president and administrative assistant to the chief executive officer. He joined Bailey Controls Com
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on July 15, 1981Dravo Corporation recently received a contract from the Chang Jiang Shipping Administration of the People's Republic of China to provide technical assistance and equipment for towboat communications. Dravo will provide engineering, installation guidance, training coordination and equipment f
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on July 15, 1981Ned A. Smith has been elected vice president-financial planning and administration for American Steamship Company, Buffalo, N.Y. The announcement was made by Thomas W. Burke, president of American Steamship. Mr. Smith joined American Steamship in 1975 as controller. Prior to that time, he h
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on July 15, 1981American President Lines (APL) of Oakland, Calif., has called for bids for construction of an initial order of 733 forty-five-foot containers (prototype shown above), the world's first, according to Richard L. Hill, vice president for land operations and project manager. The new containers wil
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on July 15, 1981The second of three U.S.-flag dry bulk vessels being constructed at Levingston Shipbuilding Company was christened and launched recently at the Orange, Texas, shipyard. The 612-foot ship (shown above) hit the water after being christened Star of Texas by Mrs. Thelma Paden and Mrs. Marilyn V
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on July 1981Central Boat Rentals of Morgan City, La., recently put to work a unique inland, 60-foot pushboat built by Brice Shipbuilding Inc. of Chauvin, La. The Vail Trail (shown above) is an unusual ship in that it has six rudders for improved maneuverability and control. The four flanking rudders an
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on July 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) has developed a new basic ship design promoting greater energy conservation, which will be applied to three vessels (two ore/coal carriers and a bulk carrier) being built for Showa Shipping Company and Nippon Yusen. Shinichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Inc., said t
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on July 1981Christening and launching ceremonies were held at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) recently for the Sierra Madre (shown above), one of three 37,500-dwt Carlsbad Class product carriers being built for Union Oil Company of California. A gathering of more than 400 invited guest
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on July 1981At the spring meeting in Vic- toria, British Columbia, Canada, the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers heard two papers. "Experience with Real Time Motion Monitoring on the Barge Foss 245," presented by Robert E. Nichol of Diehl & Lundgaard, Inc
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on July 1981Marathon's new Super 300 selfelevating offshore drilling platform, introduced during the 1981 Offshore Technology Conference, is designed to meet an offshore industry need for a jackup compatible with harsh environments too severe for standard 300-foot water depth rigs, but not hostile enou
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on July 1981Gerald Albert, president of EDO Corporation, College Point, N.Y., has announced a restructuring of its EDO-Aire operations. The communication and navigation product line, being produced at Fairfield, N.J., will be combined with the auto-pilot product line at the EDO-Aire facility in Mineral
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on July 1981Rugged new ship/shore connectors that make connecting and d i s c o n n e c t i n g docked ships to shore-generated power easier and faster are detailed in a new brochure brochure being offered by Joy Manufacturing Company, LaGrange, N.C. The new Joy three-phase connectors are said to offer
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on July 1981Literature is now available describing a new Pressure-Wiper Seal, known as the John Crane Type RH BWC, recently introduced by Crane Packing Company. One-piece construction consists of a special abrasion-resistant elastomer bonded to a metal reinforcing washer, the internal anti-extrusion ri