1983 Articles
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on November 1983The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will hold its Annual Meeting, the 91st, in conjunction with an expanded International Maritime Exposition at the New York Hilton Hotel on November 9-12, 1983. The Technical Program promises to be outstanding with presentations of 12 techn
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- Mitsui Delivers The Kepbreeze page: 45
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on November 1983The 40,876-dwt bulk carrier Kepbreeze was recently delivered at the Chiba Works of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Tokyo, to her owner, Kepmount Shipping Private Ltd. of Singapore. She is an energy conserving, labor-saving flush deck bulk carrier with forecastle and poop, equipped
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- OFFSHORE RESURGENCE BEGINS page: 32
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on November 1983(EDITOR'S NOTE: Last March at a meeting of financial analysts in New Orleans, Hugh J. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO), forecast a turnaround for the offshore drilling industry by early 1984 as the result of the Department of the In
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on November 1983Bill W. Rice has joined American Metal Bearing Co. (AMB) of Garden Grove, Calif, as director of its recently acquired Barge Train division. He is a program management, production, and sales specialist with more than three decades of experience. Barge Train's sole product is the Flexor, a fl
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on November 1983Butterworth Systems (U.K.) Ltd., recently announced the appointment of Martin Smith as Tank Cleaning Machine Product Line Coordinator. He is responsible for marketing of crude oil washing and water washing equipment for ships and for rental of portable tank cleaning and land based equipment
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on November 1983The Navy has identified $22 million in cost avoidance through opening previously sole source contracts to competition during the period April—June 1983. Since the spring of 1982, the Navy has established Competition Advocates at all major contracting activities. These Competition Advocates
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on November 1983Plans for the international Design- Inspection-Redundancy Symposium on November 14—16, 1983, at the Fort Magruder Inn and Conference Center in Williamsburg, Va., are nearing completion. The symposium will be sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure Committee, whose member agencies are: t
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on November 1983RMI, Inc., National City, Calif., recently announced the election of four new directors. Edward Hidalgo, partner in the Richmond, Va., law firm of Mays, Valentine, Davenport, and Moore, and former Secretary of the Navy; Barry Shillito, chairman of Teledyne-International, former Assistant Se
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on November 1983Dock Express Shipping, b.v., a specialized heavy-lift shipping company based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has undergone a change in management structure, it was announced by Warren R. Wheelock, president of Dock Express Contractors, Inc. The management of Dock Express Shipping, b.v. is no
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on November 1983A new line of ribbed funnel-entry butt splices has been introduced by AMP Special Industries Division of AMP Products Corporation, Valley Forge, Pa. The new wire splices, which are an addition to the company's line of ribbed insulated terminals, offer reliable solderless electrical connectio
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on November 1983Halifax Shipyard of Nova Scotia has won a Can. $54-million contract from the Canadian Government to build one type 1100 Navaid/ Light icebreaker vessel. Construction will begin early next year with delivery to the Canadian Coast Guard scheduled for May 1986. President and chief executive of
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on November 1983In the keynote speech before the annual meeting of the Warrior- Tombigbee Development Association, Joseph A. Farrell, president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc., warned of two major threats to the future survival of the inland and coastal water transportation industry. Mr. Farrell
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on November 1983Ralph E. Ablon, chairman of Ogden Corporation, has announced that Ogden's board of directors have approved a plan to distribute the stock of Ogden Marine, Inc. (OMI) to Ogden stockholders. It is expected that the spinoff will be completed in late December 1983 or early 1984, conditioned upo
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on November 1983ACR Electronics, Inc., manufacturers of marine search, safety and rescue equipment, held its annual National Sales Conference August 11-13 in Ft. Lauderdale. This year an expanded program included all regional ACR sales representatives and their wives. The conference reviewed sales forecast
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- CRC Welding Systems Moves To Houston page: 18
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on November 1983Crutcher Resources Corporation, announced the move of its CRC Welding Systems, Inc. operation from Nashville to Houston. CRC Welding Systems designs and manufactures high technology welding equipment systems and controls for a variety of industrial applications, including robotic welding. F
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on November 1983Hans Gade's American Harbour Pilot has now been published in a new updated edition—the third in the series. The appearance of the book is the same as the previous editions; however, the 1,100 pages which describe more than 700 harbors and ports of call in North, Central and South America, s
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on November 1983High-strength Micro = Lam laminated veneer lumber scaffold planking is featured in a new brochure released by Trus Joist Corporation of Boise, Idaho. The new eight-page guide illustrates several different applications for the exceptionally durable product and provides specification data on
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on November 1983A unique 350-foot self-loading barge for Matson Navigation Company's interisland cargo service in Hawaii will be built by Mc- Dermott, Inc., of Louisiana, at a cost of nearly $6 million. The barge will have capacity to carry 216 containers of various sizes, including dry and refrigerated cont
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on November 1983Plans are moving ahead quickly for the Thirty-Sixth Annual Technical Conference of the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association to be held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec on February 14, 1984. The Annual Technical Conference, always held in Montreal, is by far the l
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on November 1983Adm. Harold E. Shear, USN (ret.), Maritime Administrator, announced recently that the Maritime Administration (MarAd) and Farrell Lines, Inc., of New York have signed a cooperative agreement under which the steamship company will commercially test the feasibility of carrying oversized cargo