1988 Articles
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on October 1988Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) recently signed a contract with Kosan Tankers A/S of Denmark to build a semi-pressurized and fully refrigerated 4,300-cubic-meter LPG carrier. The vessel will be about 322- 1/2 feet long, 53 feet wide and will have a depth of 33.7 feet. When delivered in the se
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on October 1988Par Holmstrom has been appointed service superintendent for Wartsila Diesel, Inc.'s new service station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He will supervise and coordinate the company's service activities in the Caribbean. Mr. Holmstrom was previously service engineer with Wartsila Diesel, Inc. in New
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on October 1988The Trinity Marine Group has acquired the assets of Guarino & Cox, Inc., a New Orleans naval architecture and marine engineering firm. The principals, Salvadore Guarino, president, Gregory Cox, vice president, and their employees have moved to Trinity Marine's corporate offices in eastern New
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on October 1988The new 1988-89 catalog of impellers, published by Barco Corporation of Tampa, Fla., includes two new elastomer Cam/Pumpliners. According to the company, the Barco elastomer products are extremely resistant to sand abrasion and friction caused by dry running. The Cam/Pumpliners 457 and 613,
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on October 1988Pego Systems Inc., Long Beach, Calif., is offering free color literature on the full line of Golar Marine incinerators manufactured by Team Tec AS of Norway. According to the literature offered by Pego Systems, U.S. representative of Team Tec AS, Golar Marine incinerators have been market l
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on October 1988Hollming Ltd. and Rauma-Repola Oy, two Finnish marine companies, have joined forces to make the best use of their trade names. In the future, the production of Aquamaster propulsion units and Rauma-Repola winches will take place under the same roof. Aquamaster-Rauma Ltd. is the name of the ne
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on October 1988Rados International Corporation, naval architects and marine engineers of San Pedro, Calif., has been awarded a design contract for furnishing the complete design, engineering, and construction inspection of a new 84-foot twin-screw, full secondary research and monitoring vessel for the City o
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on October 1988The liquefied gas shipping industry (LNG and LPG) has staged a fairly remarkable recovery in the last couple of years, both in terms of the volume of cargo moved by sea, and the operating profitability of ships involved in these trades. Now, a new Report from Drewry Shipping Consultants—"Liq
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on October 1988L'Orange GmbH, Stuttgart, West Germany, one of the leading manufacturers of injection systems for medium and large diesel engines, offers a full line of high-pressure injection pumps and injection valves, spare parts for all injection systems from the major engine manufacturers, and other te
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on October 1988The new RAY-152 SSB Radiotelephone from Raytheon Marine Company provides outstanding long-range communication over all 195 ITU marine channels, memory programming of up to 200 other operating frequencies, and scanning of up to 10 preprogrammed receiver channels, plus many convenient user fe
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on September 1988The Cahners Exposition Group (CEG) and the Seatrade Organisation recently announced the formation of a joint venture company to organize China's international maritime exhibition, "Marintec China" and "Marintec Offshore China," which has been held in Shanghai every two years since 1981. The
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- Wartsila Completes Conversion And Refurbishment Of S/S Monterey To Luxury-Class Cruise Liner page: 60
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on September 1988Wartsila Marine Industries has completed the conversion and refurbishment of the S/S Monterey at its Turku Repair Yard, and the vessel has been re-delivered to her owners, Aloha Pacific Cruises, Alexandria, Va. The 564-foot-long Monterey will transit via Kristiansand, Norway, where it will
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on September 1988An option to build a second 140,000-dwt oil tanker at the Puerto Real yard of Astilleros Espanoles SA has been taken up by Nacionale de Navegacion (CNN), bringing to five the number of Suezmax tankers on order at the state-owned facility in southern Spain. The 899-foot-long by 141-foot vess
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on September 1988—Literature Available Sal Berte recently announced the formation of Saber Communications, a Houston-based company that will specialize in the representation of high-quality products for marine dealers in both the commercial and pleasure-craft marketplaces. In addition, the company will of
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on September 1988The Shipbuilding and Metal Fabrication Technology Conference will be held on October 4-5, 1988 at the Radisson Hotel Hampton in Hampton, Va. The conference, sponsored by the American Welding Society and their Tidewater Section, will focus on new materials and technologies in the shipbuildin
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on September 1988Representatives of Waterway Communications Systems, Inc. (Watercom®) and International Telecharge, Inc., Dallas, Texas, recently announced that a contract between the two organizations has been signed. ITI will provide Watercom telephone subscribers with operator-assisted long distance serv
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on September 1988The MDAS 7000 Data Acquisition System, recently acquired by the Autodata Division of Acurex Corporation from TransEra Corporation of Provo, Utah, combines high-speed acquisition rates, large channel capacity, and extensive process analysis capability at an affordable price. The MDAS 7000 is
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on September 1988Seebeckwerft of Bremerhaven, West Germany, recently received a DM65-million ($38.9-million) order from the Railship Group to build a 10,000-dwt rail/freight ferry. She is the third ferry of this type to be ordered by Railship from Seebeckwerft over the last few years. The vessel, the Railshi
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on September 1988In an action not necessarily connected with the recent Public Hearings on emergency towing, the Coast Guard's publishing of a Final Rule, effective September 15, 1988, states that anyone wanting to engage in towing of disabled boats for financial consideration will be able to do so. The only
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on September 1988Sperry Marine's new Rascar series of rasterscan radar/ARPAs with touchscreen control have received type-approval certification from regulatory agencies in the United Kingdom (DOT), West Germany (DHI), the Netherlands (PTT), and the U.S. (FCC), Rascar product marketing manager Bruce Angus re