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- Tacoma B o a t b u i l d i n g Appoints Two N e w M a r k e t i n g Directors Maritime Reporter, May 1980 #19
Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Inc., a leading Northwest builder of commercial and military ships, has announced the new appointments of Kenneth L. Kesler as director of marketing and sales for the Southwest Region, and Charles A. Garman as director of marketing for the Northwest Region.
Mr. Kesler's activities will focus on Tacoma Boatbuilding's growing involvement with the construction . vessels specifically designed to support tht shore oil industry.
He will manage Tacom. >oat's newly opened sales office located at 11'; 0 Southwest Freeway, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77031.
Mr. Garman will supervise sales of crabbers, trawlers, and processors which support the fishing industry on the West Coast, from California to Alaska. In addition, he will have marketing responsibility for other commercial vessels, including tugs, barges, and cargo ships.
Mr. Kesler has been involved in the construction of offshore equipment for the past five years with Zapata Corporation. Prior to joining Tacoma Boat, Mr. Garman was a sales representative for seven years with the Marine and Industrial Division of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
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- Life Boats by Ernst Hatecke Make the Plunge Maritime Reporter, Nov 2003 #90
. In the early days, work focused on repairing and building wooden boats. Today, Ernst Hatecke's freefall lifeboats are saving lives on ships and off-shore oil plat- forms, and the wood has been replaced by reinforced plastic or composites, becoming one of the leading manufacturers of lifeboats and
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- Bethlehem Steel's Huge Drydock At New Sabine Yard In Texas To Be Operational In Spring '85 Maritime Reporter, Dec 15, 1984 #47
, owner of the drydock. The new Bethlehem facility on the Sabine- Neches Ship Channel will be devoted primarily to the repair and inspection of off-shore oil drilling and production facilities. The location of the new yard will give rig operators ready access to and from the Gulf of Mexico. The channel
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- 2021: A Year of Offshore Energy Potential Marine News, Apr 2021 #20
news. An estimated 50,000 jobs supported by the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas industry were lost during 2020. While most jobs and investment for the off-shore oil and natural gas industry are naturally clustered along the Gulf Coast, every single U.S. state has businesses that are part of the vendor chain.
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- Simulation & Ice Navigation Training Maritime Reporter, Apr 2015 #32
2017. The Ice Navigation course is relative new with the first class presented in November 2014. The initial class included members working in the offshore oil and gas industry, a member of the Alaska Marine Pilot’s Association and members of the Alaskan fisheries. Although the course of instruction is
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- Drones: The Next Great Leap in Hydrography Marine Technology, Sep 2016 #24
Hydrographic charting is becoming more important outside the world of shipboard navigation as both industry and conservation have gone offshore to meet the increasing demands of a growing global population. By 2020, the subsea sector of oil exploration and extraction is expected to account for 20% of total
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 Image courtesy Greg Trauthwein Image courtesy BIRNS MacArtney launches the new ultra-compact ø12.7 mm SubConn Nano connector. Innovative connectivity built on 45 years of ? eld-proven and market-trusted design. Image courtesy MacArtney Birns celebrated its 70th
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36LANDER LAB #10 Of special interest for marine applications, LiPo batteries are Shipping any kind of lithium battery can be a challenge, and offered in a “pouch” design, with a soft, ? at body. The pouch IATA regs vary with the batteries inside or outside an instru- is vacuum-sealed, with all voids ?
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35. Rechargeable batteries may be put on trickle chargers to pre- times higher capacity during high current discharge cycles vent this, as on a cabled-to-shore node, but untethered vehicle than alkaline batteries, better storage life due to lower self- designers have to allow for this by adding additional
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33. Once a collector has achieved its 6,000kg payload, it can return to the surface, and as the surface vessel reaches capacity, it can return to shore while the collectors continue to load on a second vessel. There is no sediment release mid-water like the other technologies and no noise from
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25‘discovered’ many mountains, hills, valleys and canyons that APPLICATIONS would rival anything seen on land.” • Shallow Gas Hazard Surveys • Oi shore Wind Turbine Phase two, mapping inside the caldera, • Geotechnical InvesO gaO on • Sand Resource InvesO gaO on featured SEA-KIT International’s
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47ReducO on Chamber (206) 286-1817 www.merequipment.com QUALITY NACOL ACCUMULATORS • Forged shells, no welds • Long LasO ng, No Seam, Pleated Bladders OFFSHORE WIND • We stock 1/5 pint to 15 gallons in Chicago Log on to the • Sizes available to 40 gallons MARKET INTELLIGENCE MarineLink.com Intelatus offers
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43to advance mari- have 90 percent of pier sides in ports A member of technical committees time decarbonization – from CII to emis- to deliver power from shore by 2030, with leading class societies, Lehtovaara sions trading – are optimized by formaliz- Lehtovaara suggests. started the International Council
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications • DGPS coastal differential global positioning
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39labor costs and scaffolding costs. Norway OKs Ammonia Bunkering Terminal The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection gave its ap- shore supply vessels that regularly call at Fjord Base in Florø. proval to the construction of the planned ammonia bunkering The planned terminal is part
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW engines and a lithium battery ca- This took place at an offshore multiple buoy mooring site near pacity of 485 kWh, Castalia ensures operational autonomy of the BP re? nery, two miles from the Port of Castellón
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35certi? cation from ClassNK for Japan’s today is just eight seconds, one second less than gold? sh. The ? rst training program for crew members of offshore wind in- science behind these attention span perceptions is limited, but dustry crew transfer vessels (CTVs). The training uses the lat- educators
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34Laursen Image above: Kongsberg Digital has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation-based training of offshore professionals at Equinor. 34 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (34-44).indd 34 4/5/2024 8:43:52 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32of Mammoet requirement for the development of these cranes, particularly ling area. This would result in a major time and fuel saving. in ? oating offshore wind,” says Adrian Green, Engineering & For ? oating projects, it could reduce project installation time Contracts Director. “Ports are a major
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31CRANES & OFFSHORE WIND Cadeler’s new NG-20000X class vessels will have 2,600t cranes, and its new NG-20000F class vessel will have a 3,200t crane. Similar new vessels for Havfram will have a crane of approximately 3,200t, as will Van Oord’s KNUD E. HAN- SEN-designed newbuilding currently being built in
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 25RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND Photo by Brian Suriani USN Military Sealift Command From a global supply chain perspective, What makes MSC so vital to the we’ve learned a lot about dealing with Navy’s ? eet and our military disruptions. COVID delivered a big forces around the world? wake-up
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 23offshore wind; and the foreign ? ag Maersk supply WTIV at Seatrium Singapore, together with U.S. ? ag feeder ATBs for transportation and installation of the Empire Wind. Three newbuild SOVs and three conversions/retro? ts were award- ed, too, and 22 CTVs were also announced. The ? rst US rock installa
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20stops and starts during its adolescence, common mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas sector.’ In Robert Langford, the American Bureau of Shipping has all of that and more bundled in one neat package. Langford recently visited
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19SOVs Source: Intelatus Global Partners built vessel fell from ~25% in early 2021 to ~12% today. Visit Us The biggest new building premium is found in the USA, for at OTC Houston, TX a variety of reasons, where the three tier one SOVs are being Booth 2121 built for ~€87-168 million. VARD is a leader in
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17the USA. ~8,300 turbines are forecast to be installed globally (excluding China) between 2024 and 2030 and close to 15,500 in 2031-2035, as global offshore wind capacity (excluding China) grows to ~380 GW of capacity at the end of the forecast period. The high-level con- clusion that one can make is
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16Wylezich/AdobeStock t a high-level, there are three solutions to transferring Lower day rate CTVs are often used for daily transfer of technicians from shore bases to offshore wind farms 12-24 and increasingly 30+ technicians on a daily basis and for construction and O&M activities: crew transfer have
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 11ing will be more accurate in determining trends and aspects of SIRE 2.0 seeks to unify the maritime community in its ap- improvement or safety concerns. proach to safety and compliance, enhancing transparency and The introduction of core and rotational questions in SIRE 2.0 operational ef? ciency by