September 1978 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Content

• Marine Engineering Firm Formed In Oregon page: 4
• Jurong Shipyard Ltd. Awarded Multimillion Conversion Contract page: 4
• Data Sheet Describes Shipboard Interior Fireproof Panels page: 4
• Jeffboat Delivers The Thruston B. Morton page: 6
• Bell Aerospace Delivers 160-Ton Air Cushion Landing Craft To Navy page: 6
• Avondale To Construct Two Multi-Product Ships For Ogden Marine page: 6
• Orion Gautreaux Named Zapata Vice President page: 6
• Rhine-Schelde-Verolme And IHC Offshore Yard Effect Shipbuilding Merger page: 7
• APL To Build Five New Containerships page: 8
• Kongsberg Systems, Inc. Names Ambjor President page: 8
• Eagle Dredging Awards $25-Million Contract To Avondale Shipyards, Inc. page: 8
• Newfoundland Headed For Major Economic Advances In 1980s page: 9
• Tracor Marine Awarded $3.6-Million Navy Contract page: 10
• Sheridan Lee Opens New York Office page: 10
• ALRC Gets $13-Million Award To Supply Pumps For Boeing-Built Ships page: 10
• W.E. Christiansen Jr. Joins St. Louis Ship page: 10
• PSI Completes Total Package Concept With Todd 'Apache' Contract page: 12
• Third Generation Ro/Ro Subject Of New York SNAME Section Meeting page: 14
• John Smith Named Yard Operations Director At NASSCO page: 14
• MarAd Study Examines Shipping Policy Options page: 14
• Three-Day Maritime Safety Meeting Set For Chicago October 2-4 page: 15
• Cargo Security Study Sponsored By Government page: 16
• Todd Pacific Shipyards Launches Guided Missile Frigate Wadsworth (FFG-9) page: 16
• J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. Delivers 126-Foot Tug To Louisiana Tugs Company page: 16
• First Crab Boat Built By Halter Marine, The 150-Foot Alaskan Enterprise, To Operate In Bering Sea For Francis Miller page: 16
• Agri-Trans Names Miller Director Gulf Operations page: 17
• Robert Hague Post Honors James A. Farrell Jr. page: 18
• Boeing Awards Six Hydrofoil Contracts Totaling $4,360,000 page: 18
• Hongkong United Dockyards Ltd. (HUD) Forms New Subsidiary page: 18
• NKK Signs Agreement With Baker Marine Corp. page: 20
• Women Invade Engineers' Seagoing Dredge Fleet page: 20
• Uniflite Awarded $3.2-Million Navy Contracts For Target Boats page: 22
• Technical Report On Mooring For LNG Ships Released By MarAd page: 22
• Port Electric Named Marine Distributor By Jeamar Winches Ltd. page: 22
• Perry Oceanographies Designs And Builds New Undersea Work System page: 23
• 'Ocean Trade And Transport Of Phosphate Rock7 page: 24
• Samson And SMATCO Join To Expand Traction Winch Market page: 24
• Captain Tom Smith Forms CTS And Associates page: 24
• Charles Lehman Elected ACBL Vice President page: 24
• Swann Oil Relocates New York Office page: 24
• IMODCO Receives Third Contract From PEMEX In Two-Month Period page: 24
• Salen & Wicander Opens Office In United States page: 25
• Zapata Corporation Announces Senior Management Promotions page: 25
• J. Leslie Goodier Joins Battelle In Marine Technology page: 26
• Charles G. Kiskaddon Named President Alcoa Steamship page: 26
• James H. Sanborn Joins Interstate And Ocean Transport Company page: 26
• John J. McCarthy Joins Waukesha Engine Div. Dresser Industries, Inc. page: 27
• lotron Corporation Introduces Automatic RPM/Speed Converter page: 27
• Peoples' Republic Of China Concentrates On Building Up Bulk Carrier Fleet page: 28
• L. James Gardner Joins Bath Iron page: 29
• Castle & Cooke, Inc. Plans Purchase Of Seven Ships page: 29
• Halter Marine Announces Corporate Name Change page: 30
• Dravo SteelShip Names Frank C.A. van Bentem 30 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Engineering Director page: 30
• Nominations Are Open For Shepheard Award For Maritime Safety page: 30
• Human Element In Ship Operation Is Subject Of Maine Maritime Seminar page: 30
• Halter Marine Adds Tenth Shipyard page: 30
• API Annual Tanker Conference To Be Held At Tarpon Springs Oct. 1-4 page: 32
• Paceco International Appoints Alan Holme Managing Director page: 32
• Cuba Takes Delivery Of Third Canadian-Built Ship page: 34
• Smit Nymegen Corporation Holds Seminars On Independently Fired Inert Gas Generators page: 34
• Raymond Subsidiary Awarded $10-Million Contract In Venezuela page: 36
• Port Everglades Foreign Trade Zone Expansion Approved page: 36
• Canadian Shipbuilding Production Summary For First Six Months page: 36
• Gulf Mississippi Adds Two Vessels To Fleet For Offshore Service page: 38
• Lennart Thorell Joins Todd Pacific Shipyards page: 38
• Marine Concrete Structures Delivers First 2 Platforms From New Dock Facility page: 38
• Halter Marine Delivers First Of Three Supply Boats To Brazil —First From U.S. Shipbuilder page: 40
• The 1,000-Foot M/V George A. Stinson Joins National Steel's Fleet Of Ore-Carrying Vessels page: 40
• Australian Designs Fast 1,600-Ton Containership With Crew Of Only Five page: 40
• Davie Shipbuilding Buys Branch Lines, Operator Of Tankers page: 42
• Michael Kenney Named President Of Jacksonville Propeller Club page: 42
• SNAME Gulf Central Section Told How A Load Line Assignment Is Obtained page: 43
• Repairing Vessels Since 1834, Camden Ship Repair Company Starts $4-Million Expansion page: 44
• API President Suggests That Oil Firms Should Participate In Solving U.S. Energy Dilemma page: 44
• ITT Decca Marine Forms New Marketing Services Department page: 45
• $4.5-Million Loan For Northern Metals Marine Terminal page: 46
• Robert Ivey Joins Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation page: 46
• World And U.S. Bulk Shipping page: 46
• Bay Shipbuilding Delivers Bulk Carrier M / V Buffalo To American Steamship Company page: 47
• Navy Awards IMODCO Development Contract For Portable SPM page: 48
• Waukesha Engine Names Donald E. Bates To Sales Post in Kuwait page: 49
• APL Names Kenneth Passe Mgr. Offshore Operations page: 49
• The Effect Of The 1978 IMCO Tanker Safety And Pollution Prevention Conference On Ship Design And Operation page: 49
• James Sweat Joins Matzer Associates page: 49
• Offshore Logistics, Inc. Announces Earnings For The Year Ended June 30 page: 49
• Tokyo Marine Services Starts Trans-Pacific Drydock Tow page: 50
• Quaker Chemical Corporation Acquires Selby, Battersby— David Kollock Named President page: 50
• Maritime Transportation Research Board Names Five New Members page: 50
• Francis A. Martin And Ottaway, Inc. Name Norman Jensen Partner page: 50
• Francis W. Bauer Joins ORBA Corporation page: 51
• Largest Vertical Submerged Screw Pumps Successfully Tested At Delaval Turbine page: 52
• Jardine Plans To Restructure Oilfield Servicing—New Name Jardine Offshore Promet page: 52
• Sea-3, Inc. Names Two New Vice Presidents page: 53
• California SNAME Sections Announce Joint Meeting page: 56
• Offshore Floatel To Accommodate 600 Workers page: 58
• Biehl & Company Opens Tenth Office In Atlanta, Georgia page: 58
• Acadian Supply Files Amended Application For Towing Vessels page: 59
• Port Everglades Propeller Club Installs Officers page: 59
• Italian Government Honors Worthington Pump Chief Executive page: 60
• Overseas Shipholding Group Reports Increased Earnings page: 60
• MARCO 'Modularizes' U.S. Navy Oil-Spill Skimmers For Easy Transport By Aircraft And Truck page: 61