The Portland Press Herald
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- Bath Iron Works Appoints Frank Kerr And Fred Kahrl Maritime Reporter, Jul 1978 #21
Two professional appointments to the staff of the vice president, Industrial and Community Relations, were announced by John F.
Sullivan, president of Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine: Frank Kerr as manager of public and community relations, and Fred J. Kahrl as employee services administrator.
Mr. Kahrl is responsible for employee services within Bath Iron Works Corporation. Mr.
Kerr is responsible for public, community and government affairs.
Mr. Kerr has been a free-lance writer and communications consultant the past seven years. He is a former newsman (Boston Herald-Traveler, United Press International, Ventura Star F r e e - P r e s s , KUDU radio, KFMB-TV), and a former public relations manager of the General Dynamics Corporation.
While free-lancing, he wrote for such national magazines as TV Guide, covered the U.S. Congress as a magazine columnist, wrote and produced documentary motion pictures and television-radio marketing campaigns.
His film credits range from "Friendship 7," the nationally televised story of John Glenn's space Alight, to "In the Wake of Heritage," with Carroll O'Connor (of TV's All in the Family), about the nation's maritime history.
His film awards range from three Cine Golden Eagles to an Academy Award nomination.
Prior to coming to Bath Iron Works in 1976, Mr. Kahrl was employed as an editor for the Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, with responsibility for the newspaper's State Desk. He had previously worked for the Press Herald while attending Bates College, leaving to serve as a Coast Guard aviator in Alaska, where he later founded and published the Kodiak Island Times.
Mr. Kahrl is responsible for employee services within Bath Iron Works Corporation. Mr.
Kerr is responsible for public, community and government affairs.
Mr. Kerr has been a free-lance writer and communications consultant the past seven years. He is a former newsman (Boston Herald-Traveler, United Press International, Ventura Star F r e e - P r e s s , KUDU radio, KFMB-TV), and a former public relations manager of the General Dynamics Corporation.
While free-lancing, he wrote for such national magazines as TV Guide, covered the U.S. Congress as a magazine columnist, wrote and produced documentary motion pictures and television-radio marketing campaigns.
His film credits range from "Friendship 7," the nationally televised story of John Glenn's space Alight, to "In the Wake of Heritage," with Carroll O'Connor (of TV's All in the Family), about the nation's maritime history.
His film awards range from three Cine Golden Eagles to an Academy Award nomination.
Prior to coming to Bath Iron Works in 1976, Mr. Kahrl was employed as an editor for the Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, with responsibility for the newspaper's State Desk. He had previously worked for the Press Herald while attending Bates College, leaving to serve as a Coast Guard aviator in Alaska, where he later founded and published the Kodiak Island Times.
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6NEWS 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. O’Malley when
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 44(Yanmar PT), a subsidiary of Yanmar on-site repair services. MarineShaft has a unique repair technique for putting Holdings, has achieved a milestone as the ? rst company in Japan to receive bent shafts and rudder stocks straight the Approval in Principle (AiP) for its with full-class approval. Its
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 41450 that our part can be proven, improved and expanded upon,” people have been trained, helping scientists discover Arctic implored McNeill. By assessing the extent of anthropogenic change and delivering this information to global audiences. impacts in extreme environments, which are the best regions Ocean
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 28SUBSEA VEHICLES DEFENSE Knife? sh is a medium-class mine countermeasure UUV designed for deployment off the Littoral Combat Ship. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian M. Brooks/RELEASED be applied to Orca XLUUV 1 through 5, which will be built (encapsulated torpedo) mine.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28MEET THE CTO emission target. “We decided it’s better to have 3 vessels with dual For the largest ships in the CMB fuel than to have one zero-emission vessel [with ? eet, the focus is on ammonia, as it is no market]. [A zero-emission vessel is] often a cheapest from a production point of white elephant
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17for a full description of all that evaluating USVs in broader and more intense set of missions. occurred at this three-day event, so I will focus on the key- • Australia has become a leader is USV experimentation. notes and panels that concentrated most-intently on uncrewed Autonomous Warrior 22 expanded
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15impact on operational ef? ciency. This hybrid assisted approach will be necessary going forward if the shipping sector is to ever become truly carbon neutral. Future fuels, such as methanol will play a signi? cant role, but their mainstream availability will likely be limited for several decades
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 CEO John C. O’Malley It’s all about [email protected] President & COO Publisher & Editor Greg Trauthwein the Molecule Photo Justin Zurre [email protected] Editor - MarineNews Eric Haun aving sat in this seat for 30+ ? uid, ? ow dynamics and aerospace
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 27Ruhl. Successful applicants will also have access to technicians and techni- cal support working in collaboration with ap- plicants and developers to get their technology integrated so that it can be evaluated. It’s about helping companies and technolo- gists navigate the aforementioned long-run- ning challenge
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43into force in 1958, and only gave the IMO broad and, vague tion. But shipbuilders, oil companies, miners, chemical man- powers “to deal with” the regulation and practices “relating ufactures and others with huge ? nancial stakes in shipping, to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping in inter-
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 45the construction of the vessel.” switchboards and dual propulsion motors. This Congressional direction led to a MARAD Vessel Power onboard consists of Wabtec Corporation’s Construction Manager (VCM) contract award to TOTE 16V250MDC, EPA Tier 4, IMO Tier III marine diesel Services in 2019, leveraging
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 27Feature Power & Propulsion not subject to speci? c IMO decarbonization measures such pair of Cat 3512E’s, each rated at 2,213 bhp, driving a Schot- as the Carbon Intensity Index, or CII), stressed that “due to tel SRP 430FP Z-drive unit. The same yard has two tugs un- signi? cant inherent differences
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 16Insights Crowley ning said. “Over my time here, we’ve dropped the average The vessel formerly known as Noydena age of a worker by six years over three and a half years. So that’s including our workforce aging by three years over was bult by DMI for Brusco Tug and that time. We’re big on investing in
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 12Insights Frank QA & Manning President & COO, Diversifed Marine, Inc. Frank Manning has quickly risen through the ranks during his eight years in the shipyard business, today serving as president and COO at Diversifed Marine, Inc. (DMI) in Portland, Ore. Crucial along the way has been a passion
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 57heat transfer material behind the PCB letters are bare aluminum. components, and do lots of testing pre- to carry the heat away from the LEDs deployment. Cree LEDs produce more (google “CREE LED Luminaire Design Many parts can be purchased by an light per watt, so less heat, and their Guide”). LEDs
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 55Figure 1 Stony Brook University PhD candidate, Ashley Nicoll, assembles the interior mount for a GoPro Hero/CamDo Blink controller time lapse underwater camera. The springs are used to gently press the camera against the interior face of the acrylic viewport. Read about Ashley’s MS project in Lander Lab #2
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 13Q&A What’s your top, most pressing challenge as Markey CEO, and what’s being done to address it? Markey, like all other ? rms in our marine industry, is faced with the real- ity that young people are simply not entering our industry the way they once did. For this reason, we are pay- ing particular
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 25CAPTAIN MORGAN MCMANUS Captain Morgan McManus will serve as the Ship’s Master on the Empire State VII, the ? rst in a series of ? ve National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV), which at press time was getting its post-sea trial ? nishing touches at Philly Shipyard. The project to design, build
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Back to the Drawing Board Preserving OPA 90 Experience ©Yellow Boat/AdobeStock By Rik van Hemmen he maritime industry has seen a very long sequence for all stakeholders to ? nd their place and, most importantly, of environmental regulations since the ? rst imple- to establish decision making routines
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 2NO.9 / VOL. 85 / SEPTEMBER 2023 24 Photo on the Cover: Courtesy Philly Shipyard : Photo this page: Courtesy Captain Morgan McManus 12 Preserving OPA90 Experience Departments OPA90 has had an outsized effect to an extent that it may no longer be as effec- 4 Authors & Contributors tive as it was in recent
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 33Feature Dredging Louis, Mo.; Memphis, Tenn.; Vicksburg, Miss.; and New OTHER PROJECTS AND ISSUES Orleans, La. The Corps spends around $1.5 billion each year on dredg- Eight dredges were central for maintaining a 9-foot ing in hundreds of navigation projects across the country. channel, focused on the
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 11. It’s made it dif? cult to navigate, it’s made it dif- ? cult to be ef? cient, and dif? cult to keep our commitments, because capacity is restricted when these weather events occur, whether it’s extreme high water, extreme low water or icing.” Still, the U.S. inland waterway system is the most ef? - cient