Randy Francis
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- Willcox North America Opens New Service Center —Literature Offered Maritime Reporter, Feb 1989 #11
Willcox North America, Inc., a manufacturer of composite flexible oil and chemical hoses used for loading/ unloading barges and tankers, recently opened a sales, service and distribution center in Houston, Texas.
The new center, which is located at 9366 Wallisville Road, Building 170, Houston, Texas 77013, telephone: (713) 675-6116, fax: (713) 675-5488, is headed by Jack Marshall with Randy Francis as sales manager and Joseph Marentette as supervisor of production.
The Houston center will conduct sales and distribution of Willcox products for the Southern Region.
Willcox's Garfield, N.J., office will continue to handle sales and distribution in the Northern Region.
Both locations will stock and service cargo hoses up to 10-inches in diameter with lengths up to 60 feet.
For free literature detailing the full line of oil and chemical hoses offered by Willcox North America, Circle 32 on Reader Service Card
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.
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August 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20The Path to Zero Climate Change Challenges for the Shipping Industry By Randy Lund ith 90% of global trade moved by sea, shipping also adopted short-term measures aimed at cutting the carbon is a major contributor to climate change. The intensity of all ships by at least 40% by 2030. However, these
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March 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22LANDER LAB STUDYING NEARSHORE SUBMARINE CANYONS This study also aimed to document the number and area of not rare ecosystems. Professor Ulla Fernandez-Arcaya, Centre small submarine canyons off the coast of California. Small can- Oceanogrà? c de Balears, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, yons are de?
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March 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22LANDER LAB STUDYING NEARSHORE SUBMARINE CANYONS This study also aimed to document the number and area of not rare ecosystems. Professor Ulla Fernandez-Arcaya, Centre small submarine canyons off the coast of California. Small can- Oceanogrà? c de Balears, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, yons are de?
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October 2021 - Marine News page: 36Feature M N 0 0 1 Training & Education This class, for all groups of students, was small due to with GPAs below established thresholds, looking closely COVID; in three of the four prior years, for example, there at participation “in educational programs heavily partici- were ? ve Black graduates.
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September 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 49Seaspan Corp.) and Costa- mare (“CMRE”, tonnage provider). In a mid August research report covering ZIM, Jefferies and Co. shipping equities analyst Randy Giveans wrote: “Container freight rates and containership charter rates have climbed higher throughout the year as demand for con- tainerized goods
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June 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 57The Final Word Book Review: Steaming to Djibouti By Captain Sean P. Tortora he following excerpts are from tion running down my face. I could see spoken, witty, maybe even in an aloof the new travelogue by Cap- the ship making its approach to the pier sort of way; he would be wearing a neat- tain Sean
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March 2021 - Marine News page: 30Feature Education & Training This is a win for our cadets as they seek employment. It also id provides the opportunity to showcase the importance of the maritime industry and what it means both globally and closer to home in attracting a new more diverse generation of future mariners.” – Rear
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March 2021 - Marine News page: 29Feature Education & Training MARAD gency ? ood response. A&M Maritime Academy at Galveston, the school slated These will be big ships. In addition to educational assets, to receive the fourth vessel. He commented on the aca- each NSMV will include hospital facilities, a helicopter demic lobbying and
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January 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 59Photo courtesy SS United States Conservancy of her power. This triumph was a tre- world stage. test of time. The plans being advanced mendous source of American pride that The SS United States Conservancy for her potential rebirth as a vibrant sta- made headlines the world over. It is a saved the ship
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January 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 58The Final Word SS United States The Maritime Thoroughbred By Susan Gibbs, President of the SS United States Conservancy here are many hallmarks Gibbs, was an exception. His “Perfect 400 voyages were Presidents, heads of of great civilizations, but Ship” long outlived him and remains state, A-list
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January 2021 - Marine News page: 4cruise ships and Tel: 212-477-6700 other passenger vessels would soon empty Contributing Writers out as the effects of COVID-19 took hold. Tom Ewing • Randy O’Neill • Barry Parker “The reality of the situation is that the PRODUCTION passenger vessel industry has been devas- Production & Graphics Manager
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December 2020 - Marine News page: 11Insurance By Randy O’Neill The key question was: Why did Coast Guard investiga- began to discuss a much less severe sanction against his tors so quickly conclude that the collision was the fault license in the form of a revised Settlement Agreement and of the towboat captain to the point that it immediatel
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December 2020 - Marine News page: 4per- Tel: 212-477-6700 sonally and professionally, I’m sifting through a Contributing Writers bag that’s far more mixed than usual. What a Tom Ewing • Randy O’Neill • Barry Parker year it’s been. PRODUCTION Of course, a lot happened in 2020 that was unexpected, and to say this year Production & Graphics
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December 2020 - Marine News page: 2America’s best new workboats to enter service in 2020. 18 22 4 Editor’s Note 10 Column 38 Tech File Wasted Words USCG’s 47 MLB By Randy O’Neill By Alan Haig-Brown 6 By the Numbers MarTID 2020 Training Report 36 Innovative Products 40 Tech File of 2020
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November 2020 - Marine News page: 46Marine Transporters Ingram Barge, with a home base in Nashville, is a leader with 270 barges. in the dry segment. operating nearly 4,500 barges (mainly Randy Giveans, Jefferies & Company equities analyst, dry) with a ? eet of more than 150 tug/tow boats. The total writing at the time of a recent Kirby
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November 2020 - Marine News page: 29COLUMN Insurance By Randy O’Neill River Dance Grounding Triggers Breakaway Barges It was a beautiful mid-summer afternoon in the nation’s heartland. The skies were clear, the sun was shining and the variable southwest breeze barely caused a ripple on the muddy water of the winding river. Optimistic ?
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November 2020 - Marine News page: 6and propulsion system the national trade association simulation. representing the inland and coastal tugboat, towboat and Until recently retiring, Randy Duffy O’Neill barge industry. O’Neill was a Senior Vice Presi- dent for Lancer Insurance Com- Sean Duffy is executive director pany and Manager
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November 2020 - Marine News page: 4Batten, CEO, Twin Disc Eric Haun • [email protected] Tel: 212-477-6700 22 Column Contributing Writers Working Out the Election’s Impact on Tom Ewing • Randy O’Neill • Barry Parker the U.S. Workboat Industry By Jeff Vogel PRODUCTION Production & Graphics Manager 26 Column Nicole Ventimiglia • nicole@mari
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October 2020 - Marine News page: 21Inland Waterways By Randy O’Neill immediately assigned a local maritime attorney who assist- prudent, yet painful, decision was to accept the suspension ed him in the completion and submission of the Marine with probation offer. Casualty Report (2692) and subsequently accompanied Because he had opted for
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October 2020 - Marine News page: 6perience in everything from this magazine. food, metals and polymers to petrochem and paint. Jim Romeo is a marine engi- neer and a freelance writer fo- Randy O’Neill is Senior Vice cused on business and tech- President with Lancer Insur- nology topics. He is based in ance Company and has been Chesapeake
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October 2020 - Marine News page: 4Editor Eric Haun • [email protected] Tel: 212-477-6700 13 Insights Bob Merchent, President & CEO, Contributing Writers Halter Marine Tom Ewing • Randy O’Neill • Barry Parker PRODUCTION 20 Column Production & Graphics Manager Bridge Heights Are Not Guesswork Nicole Ventimiglia • nicole@marinelink
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October 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51Feature Ship | CMA CGM Jacques Saade 2020 SHIPPING & PORT ANNUAL CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE This ship is Big: 400 m long x 61 m wide x 78 m highThihiiBi 400l61id78hi h By any measurement, literal or metaphorical, the CMA that saw the shipyard’s representatives in Shanghai and CGM Jacques Saade is ‘Big.
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September 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24DESIGN: LIGHTBULBS AND SHIPS want to take the risk. problems and the system ran (with upgrades) until the vessel It was also rumored that the vessel would not be able to was sunk with loss of life in a collision in 1907. The most obtain insurance, but this was being dealt with by building to remarkable