1992 Articles
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on April 1992Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, 111., has unveiled a new line of portable VHF marine radios, simplifying and improving communications for those in the marine industry. The Triton MP+ and the Triton MPc are the two portables introduced by Motorola to complement their full line of Triton II fixedm
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on April 1992The American Waterways Operators (AWO) recently submitted comments on the Coast Guard's proposal to impose user fees for vessel inspection as mandated by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. AWO's comments were developed with considerable member input and focused primarily on the
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on April 1992The Department of Transportation (DOT) recently sent to Congress a study assessing the costs and benefits of installing maritime traffic management systems in 23 selected maritime zones throughout the U.S. The management systems are designed to prevent vessel collisions and improve waterborn
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on April 1992Midland Manufacturing Corp. of Skokie, 111., has developed a portable liquid level overfill alarm system for tank barges, equipped with a barge inlet connector, per API Recommended Practice 1125. The Model B-599 is intrinsically safe and self-contained, providing high level and overfill alar
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on April 1992Treuhandanstalt, the agency charged with privatizing the assets formerly held by the East German Government, recently said it will tion plug the B-598 into i Barge Inlet Connectoi Handycheck™univer: tem tester provides v overfill level or open circuit; green LED for closed circuil overfill
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on April 1992SCS Communications Services, based in New Orleans, has been organized to provide the Gulf Coast maritime industry with public relations, communications, marketing and advertising services. Albert W. Spindler, a veteran of more than a quarter century in the aerospace, maritime, offshore dril
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on April 1992At its recent annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Chemical Carriers Association (CCA) elected its leadership for the new term. The CCA is the international association of operators of chemical tankers in U.S. trade, with full members being companies that own or operate chemical t
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on April 1992Miller Electric Mfg. Co. of Appleton, Wisconsin, has produced a new 10-page brochure describing its XMT series inverters for multiprocess welding now with Auto-Link, a unique Miller feature that adjusts primary power linkage automatically. The inverters allow operators to power up and weld u
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on April 1992Recognized the last 23 years as the world's preeminent international offshore industry event, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) will focus on the critical issues of economics and the environment affecting the international petroleum industry. The 24th Annual OTC will be held at the Ho
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on April 1992The Deerberg company is actually two companies which are Deerberg Systems and Deerberg Trading. These two companies each provide services to the cruise industry, although in totally different areas. Deerberg Systems deals with technical analysis, design, and supply of complete or par^ al con
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on April 1992Trinity Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Gretna Machine & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La., was recently awarded contracts from Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., Hicksville, N.Y., to build two, 467-foot, ocean-going barges with double hulls to meet the OPA 90 requirements. Each barge will be ca
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on April 1992Reflecting a growing international interest in commercial maritime safety and management, the USCG is planning to establish its first team of marine pollution prevention and response, port safety and port security experts for training foreign maritime agencies. The Marine Safety Training and A
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on April 1992Bisso Marine Company, Inc. of New Orleans, La. recently introduced a new tug into its fleet of vessels. The 110-foot tug Darlene Bisso was formerly the Coast Guard icebreaker Mohican. The entire hull of the vessel was gutted, and the house totally reconstructed from the main deckline up wit
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- MARINE SPILL RESPONSE CORPORATION page: 35
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on April 1992The World's Largest Oil Spill Response Organization On March 24,1989, an oil tanker struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, causing the biggest oil spill in the history of the United States. While thousands worked to clean up the spill, a small task force, organized under the auspic
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on April 1992First Component Of 16-Vessel, $188 Million Fleet The first oil spill recovery vessel in the Marine Spill Response Corporation's planned 16-vessel national fleet was recently launched at Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc., in Mobile, Ala. The fleet of oil spill recovery vessels will pro
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- DEVELOPING A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY page: 32
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on April 1992Learning From Past History This year, Congress has once again been considering national energy policy. In February, one year after President Bush proposed his "National Energy Policy," the U.S. Senate passed its package of energy-related measures, and the House of Representatives continues
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on April 1992The HMS Vanguard, a Trident ballistic missile submarine, was recently launched for the UK's Royal Navy using the Syncrolift shiplift installed at the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (VSEL). The Trident submarines are among the largest in the world and
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on April 1992The second annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE) will be held in San Francisco, Calif., June 14-19, 1992. This is a combined event with the second Pacific/ Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium (PACOMS). One of the highlights of the conference will be the presentat
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on April 1992The New Venture, a 277,083-dwt VLCC, was recently completed by Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen. It was then christened and delivered to the owner, New Dynasty Shipping Inc. This tanker is the first of its size to be developed by Hitachi Zosen. It is designed to carry two million barrels of cargo
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on April 1992Krupp MaK of Kiel recently obtained orders for the supply of complete propulsion plants for three new f e r r i e s for the Norwegian Hurtigruten-Line, to be built by Volkswerft Stralsund. Each of the ferries is to be equipped with two Krupp MaK series 6M552C main propulsion diesel engines,