1981 Articles
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on February 15, 1981Sun Company said that after a year-long analysis of the market for new ships and the competitive position of its Sun Ship subsidiary, the yard will withdraw from new ship construction activities and redirect its Chester, Pa., operations to a ship repair and industrial products facility. Sun
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on February 15, 1981James A. Thompsen has been appointed n a t i o n a l m a r k e t i ng m a n a g e r , commercial products, for Woolsey Marine, according to Seth R. Schneible, vice president of the 127-year-old marine coatings firm. In his new post Mr. Thompsen will direct sales and marketing of the complet
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on February 15, 1981Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La., has announced the completion of a twin-screw, 115-foot steel utility boat named C/Major. This vessel is the second in a series of five contracted for by COMAR Offshore Corporation, also of Morgan City. The C/Major was designed to CO-MAR's specifications
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on February 15, 1981A new president and chief of operations and two new directors were elected recently by the board of directors of The Foxboro Company, Foxboro, Mass. According to Earle W. Pitt, chairman and chief executive officer of the process control manufacturer, Colin I.W. Baxter has been elected presid
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on February 15, 1981Record levels of U.S. coastal energy development will result from higher world petroleum prices, domestic deregulation and an a m b i t i o u s offshore leasing program among other factors, according to the just published second edition of the special report by TransTech Co. (marine consulta
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on February 15, 1981Kocks Crane and Marine Company of Pittsburgh announces the merger of its parent company, Friedrich Kocks, with Peiner AG, a company of the Salzgitter group. Both companies have wellestablished reputations as producers of large cranes and material- handling equipment in Europe as well as Nor
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on February 15, 1981IMCO Resolution A.383 mandates that seagoing vessels must be equipped with a watch receiver tuned to the 2182 kHz voice distress frequency, which must be monitored 24 hours a day while the vessel is at sea. Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron recently unveiled his company's new EN2182-GR
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on February 15, 1981Galveston Wharves executive director C.S. (Chuck) Devoy has announced the promotion of four port management employees. The new appointments include the promotion of Douglas J. Marchand to general operations manager, Ron Surovik to chief engineer, Mario R. Erneta to Midwestern sales manager
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on February 15, 1981Kongsberg North America, Inc. has moved to new and larger office and service facilities at 135 Fort Lee Road, Leonia, N.J. 07605. Their new telephone number is (201) 947-6788; telex 135115. Kongsberg is the North American marketing arm of Kongsberg AS, a leading manufacturer of offshore oil
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on February 15, 1981"It may be said that a favorable economic argument for using coal as a ship's fuel can be demonstrated today in a number of bulk-carrying trades. R e a l i s t ic predictions of future price trends in energy supplies suggest that the argument is likely to become even stronger in the 10-15 ye
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on February 15, 1981Newport News Shipbuilding, a Tenneco company, has purchased a 412,000-square-foot manufacturing plant on 50 acres of land in Arden, N.C., near Asheville. The 12-year-old plant will be used for light machining operations to support an expanded program of overhauling submarines and surface sh
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on February 15, 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation has accepted delivery of the Gulf Fleet No. 44 (shown above), a 190 by 40 by 14-foot towing' supply vessel. She was built in Houma, La., by Quality Shipyards, Inc., another Gulf Fleet company, and r e p r e s e n t s t h e 102nd vessel in this rapidly growing f
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on February 1981The jackup offshore drilling rig Sagar Vikas (shown above), ordered by the Oil and Natural Gas Commission of India, was delivered recently by the Osaka Works of Hitachi Zosen, Japan. Scheduled for operation in the oil field of Bombay High, it is the first rig built for India by Hitachi, and t
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on February 1981The Northern New England Section, the American Society of Naval Engineers, held its monthly meeting recently at the Commissioned Officers Club, Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, N.H. Comdr. Michael Terry, Research and Development Program Manager, Ship Design and Integration Directorate, Naval Sea S
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on February 1981John T. Gilbride Jr., general manager and vice president of Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation's S e a t t l e D i v i s i o n , recently announced five promotions at the Seattle yard. Dan McDonnell has been named assistant general manager-production; he had been general superintendent since J
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on February 1981Burmeister & Wain Shipyard in Copenhagen recently christened the motorship Danelock, the first bulk carrier of the yard's new, fuel-saving Panamax type of approximately 64,000 dwt. Shortly after, the ship was delivered to Turnville Shipping Ltd. of Monrovia, Liberia—a member of the Wheellock
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on February 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) of Japan recently delivered the 42,000-dwt car/bulk carrier Merak Eighty, fitted with temporarily hoistable cardecks, to Irvine Shipping Inc. of Liberia. Shin-ichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Incorporated, said the bulk carrier is NKK's first new vessel equipped wi
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on February 1981Newport News Shipbuilding recently delivered two jumboized commercial ships, the Charleston, and the Fredericksburg. The Charleston, ex Cities Service Norfolk, is owned by the Arieadne Corporation of Lake Success, N.Y., one of the Berger Group companies. The Fredericksburg was enlarged for af
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on February 1981George P. Steele, president of the Philadelphia-based Interocean Management Corporation, recently announced several key changes within the company's organization. Promoted to new responsibilities were Joseph L. Mynaugh to manager of engineering; Capt. Frank X. DiPolito to operations superin
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on February 1981Capt. Russell G. McVay, harbor operations manager of the Moran Towing & T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Co., Inc., was elected vice president of the company by the board of directors, it was announced by Thomas E. Moran, president. A specialist in tug/barge operations, Captain McVay served in M