1981 Articles
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on May 15, 1981Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently launched another of its offshore supply vessels. Sponsor of the NMS 209 (shown above) was Mrs. Hugh Jackson, wife of the president of Jackson Marine Corporation, owner of the vessel. This $3.5-million vessel is the ninth among the 12 contracted P
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on May 15, 1981The New London, Conn., fleet of John H. Wronowski gained a new member recently with the addition of the heavy-duty tugboat Paul A. Wronowski. The vessel was built by Wronowski-owned Thames Shipyard in New London, and joins a fleet of five towboats and 12 ferryboats operated by the Wronowski
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on May 15, 1981Sun Ship, Inc. of Chester, Pa., began a new era of ship repair and conversion business with a recent "reverse launch," as a 700- foot ship was inched carefully out of the water onto dry land. The procedure took about six hours as hydraulic devices moved Matson's RO/ RO ship Lurline (shown abov
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on May 15, 1981Matson Navigation Company has ordered 11 Econics fuel optimization systems to equip all of the boilers on the major ships of the fleet. This order followed a six-month evaluation of a system that was installed on one of the two 110,000 pound hour B&W boilers of Matson's Manulani, a 27,165-dwt,
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on May 15, 1981Tidewater Inc., New Orleans, La., has elected Dr. Paul W. Murrill, senior vice president for research and development, Ethyl Corp. of Baton Rouge, and former chancellor of Louisiana State University, to the company's board of directors. This was announced by John P. Laborde, Tidewater chair
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on May 15, 1981The 17,780-dwt products carrier Pertamina 1023 (shown above), constructed at the Maizuru Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered recently to Scorpa Pranedya Shipping, Inc., Panama. She is the fifth products carrier of the same type to be delivered by Hitachi for the transportation of refined pe-
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on May 15, 1981Small- to medium-sized merchant ships fitted with sails to augment their propulsion plants can achieve substantial fuel savings, and attain a competitive advantage on certain trade routes. This was a key finding of a 12- month study released recently by the Maritime Administration. The stud
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on May 15, 1981Megasystems, Inc., manufacturers and designers of marine instrumentation and control systems, has been selected to provide the ABS ACCU monitoring and generator controls for eight oceangoing tractor tugs to be built by Omni F a b r i c a t o r s of Port Brownsville, Texas. The tugboats will
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on May 15, 1981Two new officers of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation, were announced by Lykes chairman Joseph T. Lykes. Merritt E. Racker has been named assistant vice president, operating division, and Elizabeth Wetzel Vincent has been named assistant vice president, ma
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on May 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle applications from subsidiaries of Beker I n d u s t r i e s Corporation, Greenwich, Conn., for Title XI guarantees to aid in financing the construction of two dredges and the reconstruction of three sulfur barges. The builder of the dredg
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on May 15, 1981Acadiana Shipbuilding Corporation's president Glenn Guidry has announced the recent expansion of the New Iberia, La.-based shipyard. The company, with the addition of a fourth construction pad, crane, and associated welding equipment, can now deliver their standard 120-foot by 30-foot by 7-
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on May 15, 1981Built by Hitachi Zosen for the National Power Corporation (NPC) of the Philippines, two power plant barges — Napocor Power Barge 1 and 2 (shown above)—were completed recently at the Osaka Works (Sakai), and are the first such facilities to be constructed by Hitachi. Upon arrival at Naga on
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on May 15, 1981Rear Adm. Anthony F. Fugaro has been appointed senior vice president of The Great Lakes Towing Company in Cleveland, Ohio, it was announced by Charles R. Khoury, chairman and chief executive officer of The Great Lakes Towing Company. Admiral Fugaro will also serve as president of Admiral To
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on May 15, 1981An eight-page color brochure and various technical data sheets on ZF marine gears are now a v a i l a b l e f r o m Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG of West Germany. Superior quality, high efficiency, low weight as well as small dimensions and high reliability of ZF marine gears are due to m
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on May 15, 1981Avondale Shipyards, Inc., a unit of Ogden Corporation, has received a $ 3 0 0 - m i l l i o n contract from Exxon Company U.S.A. of Houston for construction of three 43,000-dwt products carriers. The ships will be powered by fuelefficient, five-cylinder diesels of Sulzer design, to be manufa
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on May 15, 1981Thomas V. Van Dawark, vice president and general manager of Foss Alaska Line, Seattle, Wash., has been named president, Dillingham Maritime-Ocean Transportation Services Division. The announcement was made by David B. Ballash, Dillingham group vice president-maritime. The Ocean T r a n s p
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on May 15, 1981The formation of a new company, Racal-Decca Service Limited, was announced recently. The Croyden, England-based company will coordinate and expand the worldwide marine electronics service operations of the Racal- Decca group of companies. The existing network of service centers at 531 ports
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on May 15, 1981According to Sigurd Nilsen, president of Bailey Refrigeration, the firm's highly successful Miami branch has been reorganized as a separate company within the Bailey group of companies. "The growth of cruise activity out of south Florida has been phenomenal," says Mr. Nilsen, explaining the
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on May 15, 1981The Corps of Engineers Marine Design Center in Philadelphia has c o n t r a c t e d with the Jacksonville, Fla., naval architectural firm of Norman N. De- Jong & Associates, Inc. for the design of a new series of twinscrew tugs. DeJong specializes in tugboat designs. The firm has designed t
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on May 15, 1981The Penco Division of Hudson Engineering Company (Hoboken, N.-J.) and Bremer Vulcan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik of West Germany recently announced the appointment of Penco as the United States agent for Bremer Vulcan shipyard in Bremen, Germany. Bremer Vulcan's facilities and services inc