Signet Marine Group, an operating entity of Signet Corporation of Houston, has formed an Ocean Transportation Services (OTS) Division, according to a recent announcement by J. Barry Snyder, president and chief executive officer of Signet, and Thomas V. Van Dawark, executive vice president of Dillingham Maritime. Under the terms of an agreement between Signet and Dillingham Maritime, Signet will charter Dillingham vessels to augment its existing fleet.
The OTS Division will specialize in marine towing and transportation of liquid, dry bulk, breakbulk. containerized, and project cargoes in the Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Caribbean.
Signet Marine's established operations include Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, a carrier of refined petroleum products and other bulk materials.
The management team chosen for the development of the expanded Signet Marine Group will include many of the former key Ocean Transportation Services, Inc. managers from Dillingham.
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Thomas J. Johnson has been named director of marketing for Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, an operating unit of the Houston-based Signet Corporation, J. Barry Snyder, president and CEO of Signet, announced recently. Mr. Johnson will supervise marketing activities and will be involved in new business
Above, J. Barry Snyder, president of Houston, Texas-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, and Mrs. Snyder stand proudly with Gunther Kuehl, director of North American sales for MaK engines at the MaK engine manufacturing plant in Kiel, West Germany, with the first of four specially built engines to be
be built in the United States. "McDermott feels fortunate to be the first shipbuilder in the country to apply this technology to oceangoing tugs," said V.J. LeBlanc, head of the McDermott Shipyard Group. "We're proud we will be building these vessels for Bulkfleet Marine Corporation's fleet." According
to design, construct and operate Dedicated Deep Notch Tug Barge Units (DDNTBU) in charter service along the U.S. Gulf, Caribbean and East Coast ports. J. Barry Snyder, president of Bulkfleet, said the company's primary interest is in the long-term movement of hydrocarbons, petrochemicals and dry cargoes
design contract for two 850-passenger worldclass U.S. cruise vessels to Wartsila, one of the world's foremost designers and builders of passenger ships, J . Barry Snyder, president and chief executive officer of Signet Corporation, announced recently. The proposed Signet 800-Class liners will incorporate
have a capacity of 210,000 barrels of petroleum products. While a crowd of several hundred invited guests and shipyard employees looked on, Mrs. James N. Brown, wife of the marine operations manager of Gulf Oil Company- U.S., snipped a ribbon activating a mechanical arm that smashed the traditional
to the United States, has consolidated its interests, including a first-class passenger cruise line, under the name Signet Corporation, J. Barry Snyder, president and chief executive officer of the newly formed parent company announced recently. Operations consolidated through acquisition i
140-foot, twin-screw Valiant (shown above) was built for Houston-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation. She was christened by Mrs. Audrey Brown, wife of James N. Brown, manager, marine operations, Gulf Oil Corporation. Contracted to Gulf Oil, the new tug will push the 28,000-dwt oil barge Bulkfleet Pennsylv
commissioning. The VESSELS LNG Ferry Megastar Shipyard delivered the LNG fast ferry Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Megastar to owner Tallink on January which is providing technical supervi- 24. The newly built ferry was to begin sion during the construction of all the plying the Helsinki-Tallinn
in the United States. "McDermott feels fortunate to be the first shipbuilder in the country to apply this technology to oceangoing tugs," said V.J. LeBlanc, head of the McDermott Shipyard Group. "We're proud we will be building these vessels for Bulkfleet Marine Corpora- tion's fleet." According
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