1985 Articles
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on May 1985Furuno U.S.A., Inc., S. San Francisco, Calif., has published a 28-page catalog of their complete 1985 product line. It covers a broad range of marine electronics for commercial fishermen, work boat operators and yachtsmen. The catalog is arranged by product category, covering radars, echosou
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on May 1985The Falk Corporation, Milwaukee, Wise., is offering their 32-page bulletin which provides comprehensive information on the firm's extensive line of crowned tooth gear couplings. More than a dozen different types in the 1000G Series are presented for evaluation complete with illustrations, de
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on May 1985Furness Withy, the British group of companies based and managed in the United Kingdom, is offering a free color folder that describes the group's structure and services and gives a glimpse into its wide-ranging interests. Since 1980, these companies have been part of the Tung Group of Hong
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on May 1985A recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held at the ABS Building in New York City heard a paper titled, "Preventative Maintenance Programs for Machinery." The author was Richard Rothamel of the American Bureau of Shipping.
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on May 1985H. Peter Young has been appointed vice president of marine operations for American President Lines (APL), according to H.B. Hubbard, senior vice presidentoperations. Mr. Young will have overall responsibility for the intermodal transportation company's fleet of 16 containerships and five mu
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on May 1985The first U.S. Navy surface warship ever to be equipped with a vertical- launching missile system was christened recently at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Miss. The ship, the Bunker Hill (CG-52), is the fifth of 12 Aegis guided-missile cruisers under contract to Inga
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on May 1985The problem of handling diesel fuel in cold weather conditions often require several different solutions, depending on climatic conditions. Dahl, the Ceres, Calif., fuel filter/ water separator manufacturer, has developed both a new heavy-duty in-line diesel fuel heater and an internal elect
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on May 1985The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) of London, and Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) of New York, recently announced that they have reached agreement to form a joint venture involving the acquisition by OSG of a 50-percent interest in P&O's liquefied petroleum gas
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on May 1985Bjorn Ahlstrom, president and chief executive officer of Volvo North American Corporation, has announced the appointment of Robert Bridge as president and chief executive officer of Volvo Penta of America. Headquartered in Rockleigh, N.J., VPA will direct all of Volvo's marine activities in
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on May 1985Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) of Friedrichshafen, West Germany, is offering an attractive color brochure on ZF marine gearboxes. Titled "ZF Marine Transmission Systems," the 16-page publication is arranged in seven doublepage sections. The first section carries the heading "ZF marin
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on May 1985A group of Oregon investors has purchased FMC Corporation's Marine and Rail Equipment Division in Portland, bringing corporate ownership back to the State. The new company, named Gunderson Inc., will re-establish more than 400 manufacturing jobs in the Portland area. The acquisition was spe
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on May 1985Stephen A. Van Dyck, president of Sonat Marine, Inc. of Philadephia, a subsidiary of Sonat Inc., has announced the purchase of a 244,000-barrel barge and its associated 7,000-bhp tug. This tug/barge unit will join the Sonat fleet as the Liberty (ex Satoco) and the Ocean 244 (ex Chromalloy I)
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on May 1985Louis W. Gomlick, president of Penn International Marine Agencies, Ltd. (PIMA), New York, recently announced that PIMA has been appointed the exclusive agent in the U.S. for Companhia Brasileria De Raparos (COBRENA) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; exclusive worldwide agent for Mechanical Resource
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on May 1985Manufacturers of marine coatings and other corrosion-fighting systems continue to improve their products and services, with much emphasis on reducing costs, both of the products and their application, and by extending drydocking times. The fuel-saving, self-polishing copolymer antifoulants
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- WHERE'S THE PORK BARREL? page: 34
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on May 1985Experts in the media and in the government who bother with the matter at all, like to characterize the domestic waterways industry as the "pork barrel industry." It must be great fun for journalists and other critics to glibly caricature a greedy parochial politician with his face stuck in t
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on May 1985The health of the world's shiprepairers is inextricably linked with the fortunes of the world's shipowners: when it's bad for the owners it's bad for the repair yards. The long recession has had a marked effect on the shiprepair yards around the world, but at long last there seems to be a gl
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on May 1985The Southwest Marine, Inc. shipyard in San Pedro, Calif., lost a landmark recently but gained a satisfied customer. The drilling rig Rowan Alaska has towered over the buildings, boats, and even big ships in the SWM yard for more than a year. As one skipper on the docks put it: "The Rowan Ala
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on May 1985To complete its parts and service reorganization, the Fairbanks Morse Engine Division of Colt Industries has opened a new Central Parts Distribution Center in Indianapolis, Ind. This new facility (shown) replaces the division's former central warehouse at its Beloit, Wise., manufacturing plant
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on May 1985The 16,770-dwt motor car carrier Nissan Laurel (shown) was completed recently at Hitachi Zosen's Hiroshima Works and delivered to Intercontinenal Car Carriers S.A. of Panama. The ship, which can carry a total of 4,900 Japanese-size cars, has an overall length of 590.5 feet, beam of 105.8 fee
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on May 1985The Penrod 99, a Marathon Le- Tourneau 82-SD-C shallow-draft, cantilever offshore jackup drilling rig, was launched recently (photo) at the company's Gulf Marine Division in Brownsville, Texas. With the rig in the water, the rest of the selfelevating platform's three legs, its drilling derri