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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Kenneth W. Waldorf, Zapata Gulf chairman and chief executive officer, has announced. Larry T. Rigdon has been named vice president-domestic operations with responsibility for the Gulf
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on August 1985Newman's Inc. is offering a free brochure on the company's line of Newco marine valves. The publication features text on gate, globe, check and angle valves. Cross-section diagrams, as well as black and white photographs accompany the text. According to the brochure, Newco marine valves hav
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on August 1985Regulations set forth at MARPOL 73/78, requiring the installation of onboard oil pollution prevention equipment by October 1986, can be met by oil monitoring and oii separating equipment supplied by McNab, Inc., a U.S. marine instrumentation manufacturer and distributor, according to the com
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on August 1985The 46,052-grt luxury cruise liner Holiday (shown above on sea trials) has been delivered by Aalborg Vaerft in Denmark to Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. of Panama. She is designed and built as a steel-hulled, twin-screw/rudder, passenger cruise ship with raked stem, transom stern, bulbous bow, b
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on August 1985North American Towing Company president Warren A. Jackman announced the appointment of Alfred R. Hudson as special representative for marketing. Mr. Hudson is a former vice president of Ceres Terminals, Inc., one of the largest stevedoring firms in the U.S. His responsibilities, effective im
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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Larry T. Rigdon, vice president-North American operations, has announced. Based in the Harvey, La., office, B.B. Breland has been named manager-tugs and barges. Reporting to him are Jo
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on August 1985Simon J.N. Heale has recently been appointed president of Oceanroutes, Inc., succeeding R.L. Snideman, who has left the company. Mr. Heale joined Oceanroutes in February this year as executive vice president, after spending several years in the Far East with John Swire & Sons, the parent com
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on August 1985David Ballash, president and chief executive officer of Dillingham Maritime, recently announced a restructuring of several companies into a new operating unit, and the appointment of Tom Van Dawark as its executive vice president and chief operating officer. According to Mr. Ballash, the ne
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on August 1985James E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott International, Inc., announced recently that Thomas D. Barrow, retired vicechairman of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio) and former chairman and chief executive officer of the Kennecott Corporation, has been e
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on August 1985— N e w Literature Available Goltens of Brooklyn, N.Y., is offering literature on their hydraulic G-Pump. The four-page brochure offers technical data, applications advice and accessories for this unique pump. The G-Pump is a portable hydraulic pump. Bill Duffy, Goltens' marketing and sales
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on August 1985—Literature Available NICOR Marine Inc. and Sonat Subsea Services Inc. recently announced that they have entered into a cooperative agreement to offer underwater services in the Gulf of Mexico. A NICOR Marine vessel has been modified to accommodate Sonat Subsea saturation diving and remotel
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on August 1985The cruise yacht Ponce de Leon, the first ocean-class passenger vessel built in the United States in more than 30 years, is now under construction in the Marine Fabricators Inc. shipyard, approximately 30 miles south of Jacksonville, Fla., on the Saint John's River. The vessel is being built
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on August 1985Jered Brown Brothers, formerly Jered Industries, has patterns, tooling, and over 300,000 original marine equipment and machinery drawings maintained at their Auburn Hills, Mich., facilities. This invaluable inventory of both equipment and exact technical data places Jered Brown Brothers in a
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on August 1985Stanley L. Clark, president of Raytheon Marine Company, headquartered in Manchester, N.H., recently announced that Larry C. Anderson has been named president and managing director of Raytheon Marine Sales & Service Company, Copenhagen, Denmark, effective this month. Mr. Anderson, formerly m
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on August 1985William M. Lechler has joined Sumitomo Machinery Corp. of America, Teterboro, N.J. As a vice president and national sales manager, he has full marketing responsibility for the company's mechanical power transmission products in the United States and Canada. Prior to joining Sumitomo Machiner
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on August 1985Charles P. Siess Jr., president and chief executive officer of Marathon Manufacturing Company, Houston, has been named 1985-86 chairman of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Pro- Leasing Task Force. The announcement was made by NOIA president Charles D. Matthews. As chairman o
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on August 1985The official opening of Omnipure's new headquarters and plant was recently announced by Leonard Langeland, president of Omnipure. Omnipure is a division of Sigma-Chapman, Inc., and is now headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas. The new structure is located at 12850 Bournewood Drive on a oneacre
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on August 1985With shipboard refrigeration systems particularly vulnerable to malfunction and costly breakdowns, Unitor, an Actinor company, announced two new services for marine refrigeration: Preventative Technical Inspection (PTI) and Service And Repair (SAR). To combat malfunctions and costly breakdo
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on August 1985National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., has recently announced three key executive appointments. Donald A. Spanninga has been named to the newly created position of senior vice president-Operations. Mr. Spanninga, who previously served as vice president-Materials
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on August 1985—Literature Available General Electric Company has been chosen to provide the machinery control system for the first of the U.S. Navy's new Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyer (DDG-51). Under this contract, GE's Simulation and Control Systems Department in Daytona Beach, Fla., will