March 1991 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Content

• Avondale Industries Joins International Shipbuilding Partnership page: 5
• Chevron Awards Grootint $111 Million Contract For North Sea Platform page: 5
• Fincantieri Receives Products Carrier Contract Worth $53.5 Million page: 8
• Icebreaker/Passenger Ferry To Be Built By Marystown Yard In Newfoundland page: 8
• Meyer Werft Delivers Fourth Gas Carrier In Series Of Six For USSR page: 10
• Trinity Marine Receives Over $138 Million In Navy Contracts page: 10
• Service Marine To Build 145-Foot Utility Boat For Gilbert Cheramie Boats page: 11
• Sperry Gyrocompass System Receives NMEA Product Award page: 11
• New Prototype Rescue Vessel, Built By Textron Marine For USCG, Credited With Saving Four Lives page: 12
• Avondale Christens 10th In Series Of 16 Auxiliary Fleet Oilers Under Construction For U.S. Navy page: 14
• Atlantic Marine Launches Casino Riverboat 'Emerald Lady' page: 16
• Ingalls Awards Baldt Contracts For Anchor, Chain And Hardware page: 18
• Marine Industries Mobilizes Large RO/RO Barges page: 18
• The Voice Of America's Towing & Barge Industry page: 20
• Teamwork, Creativity And Determination page: 21
• A New Approach To Issue Advocacy page: 21
• The Environmental Wave: Successes And Challenges page: 24
• Effects On The U.S. Fishing Industry By The Anti-Reflagging Act Of 1987 page: 26
• Peterson Builders Sign NSRP Cooperative Agreement With Navy page: 27
• Gulf Copper To Provide Facility, Services For FPSO Conversion page: 27
• MAN B&W Diesel Moves To New USA Headquarters page: 27
• Jacksonville Shipyards Awarded $2.5 Million To Repair Pemex Ship page: 28
• Newport News Names Hardison VP, Quality page: 33
• Avondale Boat Division Licensed To Construct High-Speed Hovercraft page: 33
• Rolla Introduces New Surface Piercing 'Super Propellers' page: 34
• TOWFISH SCANS SEABED— page: 34
• Navy Requests $25 Billion For Shipbuilding, Fleet Maintenance & Repair For FYs 92-93 page: 36
• ASNE 5th Annual Naval Logistics Symposium page: 38
• MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTS page: 39
• U.S. Yards Awarded Navy Ship Repair Pacts page: 40
• 'Arleigh Burke,' First Aegis Destroyer, Conducts Weapons Trials In Atlantic page: 41
• Saab Marine Level Gauges For Navy Oilers page: 41
• PBI Launches MCM-10, USS Warrior, Seventh in Series Of 11 For Navy; Lays Keel For MCM-12, USS Ardent page: 44
• James N. Miller Signs Swath Ocean Agreement page: 46
• Ulstein Hatloe Delivers Polar Research/Passenger Vessel To Rieber Shipping page: 47
• Amoco, China Sign Joint Agreement To Undertake $500 Million Oil Project page: 47
• Norwegian Partners Buy Six Soviet-Owned Carriers For Over $100 Million page: 47
• Sources Of U.S. Oil Imports And U.S. Oil Companies' Role In The Mideast page: 48
• NAVIGATION & COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT page: 50
• Marine Hydraulics International Performs Extensive Navy, Commercial Ship Repairs page: 64
• Hardigg's Rack-Mount Container Protects Electronic Marine Equipment In Transport/Storage page: 64
• Energy And Economic Security page: 66
• Viking Fender Co. Celebrates Anniversary—Introduces New Workboat Fendering System page: 68
• TANO Introduces Mil-Spec VME Modules —Literature Available page: 69
• AESA Delivers World's Largest Tuna Purse Seiner page: 70
• Panama Canal Installs Marine Fendering System From Solidur Plastics page: 70
• Micronautics Offers Free Literature On Tide Predicting Software page: 70
• RGB Spectrum Announces New Flexible Scan Converter page: 71
• Walport USA Announces New Video Safety Service page: 71
• MagneTek Purchases Rights To IBM Electronic Bus-Transfer Technology page: 73
• Aqua Signal Develops New Computer-Controlled Shipboard Lighting System page: 73
• Chris Marine Celebrates 10th Anniversary In Jacksonville, Florida page: 74
• Deutz-Powered High-Speed Xatafoil' Yacht Under Construction At T-Craft page: 81