1981 Articles
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on November 1981Capt. David Cunningham recently reported to the Coast Guard yard in Curtis Bay, Md. He will serve as the yard's manager of financial operations, a position which oversees the shipyard's fiscal, supply and procurement activities, as well as the ships' inventory control point. The latter is a
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on November 1981International Moorings & Marine, Inc. of New Iberia, La., has been awarded a contract by Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Company for an addition to its offshore compressor station at Eugene Island Block 188-B. The project involves the installation of a new 25,000-horsepower General Electric Tur
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on November 1981The name of the Baker-Whiteley Towing Company, which has been synonymous with the Port of Baltimore since 1878, was changed recently to that of its owners, McAllister Brothers, Inc. Another change will be the painting of their fleet to correspond with the well-known colors and stack insigni
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on November 1981The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has issued a call for papers for a symposium on ship costs and shipboard energy that the section will conduct in conjunction with T&R Panel 0-36 — Economic Analysis of Marine Transportation. The symposiu
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on November 1981Effective November 1, 1981, Nav-Com Incorporated, a marine electronics system company, has begun operations from its new headquarters in Deer Park, N.Y., according to the company's executive vice president Jack Provenzano. The new building provides a substantial increase in space and improved
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on November 1981Newfoundland Steamships Limited (NSL) recently announced that its ro ro containerships Cabot and Chimo are being modified to accommodate a total of 100 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) each of container space on their twice-weekly sailings to St. John's and Corner Brook, Newfoundland. The Ch
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on November 1981A package of full-color brochures and data sheets is available at no cost from Riverway Shipyard Co. of Grafton, 111. The booklets contain a complete description of all services available at Riverway and marine equipment manufactured by the yard. Full-color pictures and text cover new const
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on November 1981Daniel R. Rogers has been appointed marketing manager for the marine division of Zidell Explorations, Inc., Portland, Ore. Thomas A. Sherwood, division manager, said Mr. Rogers brings to the newly created position more than 24 years of experience in the marine industry, primarily in sales a
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on November 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application by Moore McCormack Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford, Conn., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the reconditioning and reconstruction of the Mormacvega, Mormaclynx, Mormacargo
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on November 1981The 89th Annual Meeting of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will convene at The New York Hilton Hotel, New York, N.Y. on November 19-21, 1981. "This is by far the Society's largest annual event," stated John J. Nachtsheim, president of the Society, "with more than 1,000
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on November 1981C. Randal Gardner, business manager for Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 234, was recently elected chairman of the Jacksonville, Fla., Port Authority by the seven-member governing body. He succeeds C. Herman Terry, whose term expired on September 30. Mr. Gardner has been a board member sinc
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on November 1981The number of vessels in American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) classification has climbed to a record total, William N. Johnston, the chairman and president, reported at the semiannual meeting of the international ship classification society. ABS classed 388 new vessels of 3,200,000 dwt or 1,857,
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on November 1981F.X. McNerney, director of the Maritime Administration's Central Region, has announced the appointment of Roy R. Moffett as central region ship operations officer, stationed in New Orleans, La. Until recently, Mr. Moffett had served as an operations research analyst in the region finance of
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on November 1981In June, 1981, Ohio River Company's Huntington, W.Va. coal transfer terminal began operating at a throughput of five million tons per year—up from an average of 3.5 million tons per year. The 75-percent-capacity increase was gained through a 19- month renovation project that was carried out
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on November 1981COMSAT will conduct a oneday seminar for maritime industry personnel on December 1 in New York City to provide current information on new developments in maritime satellite communications. Companies or o r g a n i z a t i o ns who wish to send representatives should notify in writing Hale M
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on November 1981Norcontrol has introduced Data- Bridge 7, a new advanced collision avoidance system which emphasizes operator/system communication while complying with recent demands from IMCO and the U.S. Coast Guard. Norcontrol reports the new system includes several features specifically designed to aid
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on November 1981As the first stage of a major e x p a n s i o n , Philadelphia Resins Corporation, Montgomeryville, Pa., is adding 1,100 square meters (12,000 square feet) to one of its two modern manufacturing and production plants. "This immediate expansion," David H. Kollock, president of the company st
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on November 1981The members of the Flagship Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers gathered at the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Dahlgren, Va., for the first meeting of the 1981-82 season to hear a paper on "Reactivation of the Battleships," given by Rear Adm. John D. Beecher, USN, NAVSEA's Dep
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on November 1981A joint venture to supply individually programmed shipboard desk-top computers was announced recently by the firms of Anchor Marine of Liverpool and Marine Venture Ltd. of London, U.K. Under the arrangement, Anchor Marine will write programs and arrange the supply of hardware, while Marine
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on November 1981The Marconi International Marine Company Ltd., A GECMarconi Electronics company of Chelmsford, England, has received orders for a range of communications equipment to he installed on eight vessels being built in Gdansk, Poland, for the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation. The vessels — N