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- North Florida Shipyards Appoints Three—White Named Production Manager Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 1981 #25
Joseph B. Shiffert, president of North Florida Shipyards at Commodores Point in Jacksonville, Fla., has announced recent appointments to expand and strengthen the yard's extensive services to ship operators. Albert A. White has joined North Florida Shipyards as production manager and assistant to the president.
Mr. White has recently been manager of ABS Technical Services, with many prior years in the American Bureau of Shipping, including assignments as surveyor in Greece and Germany and area principal surveyor in the Middle East.
John McKelvey has been appointed superintendent, Diesel Department. He has wide-ranging experience with various sizes and types of diesel engines up to 14,000 bhp. Most recently, Mr.
McKelvey was field service engineer for Colt Industries; he has also worked with gas turbines up to 25,000 hp.
Jim Becker, with 22 years' service in the U.S. Coast Guard, has joined the North Florida team as ship supervisor coordinator.
Most recently, he worked with the USCG office of Marine Inspection in Jacksonville.
North Florida Shipyards maintains a staff of 300 people skilled in all phases of topside ship repairs, conversions, and modifications.
New York representative for North Florida Shipyards is Richard F. O'Boyle; (201) 566- 4477.
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- North Florida Shipyard Reactivates/Refurbishes RO/RO Trailer Vessel Maritime Reporter, Nov 1991 #44
and refurbishment of the 700-foot-long by 92-foot-beam RO/RO trailer vessel S/S Northern Lights (Ex. S/S Puerto Rico) is being accomplished by North Florida Shipyard, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., at its Commodores Point Facility, after being laid up for approximately three years and following its recent
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- O'Boyle Firm Named U.S. Representative For Italian CNOMV Maritime Reporter, Sep 1980 #44
who do quality work but are virtually unknown in the U.S. market. One of the first companies to sign up with Richard F. O'Boyle, Inc. was North Florida Shipyards of Jacksonville, whose principal Joseph B. Schiffert has been in ship repair for 30 years. Beginning as boiler insulation specialists (Th
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- Hvide Takes Delivery Of Reconstructed Chemical Tanker Maritime Reporter, Dec 1990 #6
joining of the two vessels and below the waterline work, including the installation of the hi-lift Willi Becker rudder and Kort nozzle/ propeller. North Florida Shipyards, Jacksonville, Fla., performed extensive modifications, reflagging, maintenance and repair work on both the Fuji and the forebody
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- AMERICA'S SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZED YARDS REFERENCE GUIDE AND REVIEW Maritime Reporter, Aug 1990 #48
Four covered fabrication buildings, machine shop, electrical shop, pipe shop, carpenter shop, warehousing, engineering, and pier space. NORTH FLORIDA SHIPYARDS Circle 135 on Reader Service Card The Jacksonville, Florida, shipyard of North Florida Shipyards specializes in the repair, conversion
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- Inland Port Development: Take the train Maritime Logistics Professional, Jan/Feb 2019 #16
where the nation’s intermodal equation and the infrastructure to more efficiently move freight is coming together. And, not a moment too soon.North Florida Mega Port, almostAllison Magrath is the Senior Land Planner at Kimley-Horn in Gainesville, Florida. She was Industrial Development Manager
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- Castelvecchi Named Corporate Purchasing Agent At Ships Supply Maritime Reporter, Mar 1983 #27
of the company that supplies provisions, deck, and engine equipment to vessels and industrial plants. Mr. Castelvecchi, who was associated with North Florida Shipyards as purchasing agent before joining Ships Supply, will recommend policy and assist in developing and administering policy on matters
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- Crowley Launches Refurbishment Of 25 Seagoing Tugs Maritime Reporter, Apr 2001 #9
Corp. To date, five tugs have been refurbished with five scheduled to undergo the process over the next 12 months. The work is being done at North Florida Shipyard in Jacksonville. In addition to the engine refurbishments, a host of other improvements are also being made, including the complete
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- Michael Kenney Named President Of Jacksonville Propeller Club Maritime Reporter, Sep 1978 #42
. King, Sea- Land Service; Capt. Bob Parker, St. Johns Bar Pilots Assn.; James J. Scott, formerly of Jacksonville Port Authority; Joseph Shiffert, North Florida Shipyards; John Sullivan, Sullivan & Sons Inc.; Tom Sween, Pepper Industries Inc.; Capt. Bryan W. Thornton, Sun State Marine Inc., and James S
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- Spotlight: Cyber Risk Management Marine News, Sep 2015 #18
of Port & Facility Compliance. Rose graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2002 with a BS in Management and has earned an MA from University of North Florida in Public Administration. Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Osburn is assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters in the Cargo and Facility Security Branch
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- Southern Marine Industries Maritime Reporter, Feb 1991 #22
chemical carrier M/V Seabulk America was undertaken by two Southern yards, Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (NORSHIPCO), Norfolk, Va„ and North Florida Shipyards, Jacksonville, Fla. The project involved the fitting of a forebody from a barge onto a wrecked tanker. Other Southern yards, particularly
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- MAJOR NAVY CONTRACTS Maritime Reporter, Dec 1988 #25
expected to be completed in December 1990. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-88-C-6294). August 30 North Florida Shipyards Incorporated, J a c k s o n v i l l e , FI a., was a w a r d e d a $3,632,240 firm-fixed-price contract for repairs and alterations
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21all 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 marine industry,” said Langford. “We continue to hire key in- oil and gas platforms, the holy grail of rigorous dividuals and partner to provide
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18will 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, the Asia Paci? c region is in the early ropean segment, characterized by a general strengthening of stages of wind farm development
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17projects in close geographic proximity), and con- solidation of wind turbine OEMs. 73 Tier 1 SOVs and CSOVs are active or under construction in the North Euro- pean wind segment. Tier 2 and Tier 3 walk-to-work (W2W) vessels are cur- rently active in the segment, but as oil www.marinelink.com 17 MR
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 43system is now ready to power ty, in a more compact and lightweight 3. NavNet TZtouchXL Furuno’s new NavNet TZtouchXL future icebreakers in the North Ameri- module, the Switzerland-based manu- can market as demand for icebreakers facturer said, noting it is already work- suite of multi-function
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 30Esvagt. Scheduled to be delivered in 2026, the Conrad Shipyard in late 2023 (and is working on a multi- vessel (with a Norwegian design proven in the North Sea) year harbor deepening project in Freeport, Texas), and will enter a long-term charter to turbine specialist Siemens Amelia Island, being constructed
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26,” he said. On the same panel, moderated by Roy Bleiberg, who Highlighting his yard’s successes with work for the U.S. handles Business Development, North America, for ABS, Coast Guard in construction of Offshore Patrol Cutters Joey D’Isernia, the chairman and CEO of Eastern Ship- (OPC), D’Isernia stressed
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 24“could experience long offshore export cable corridor extending from the lease interference and re? ectivity due to the turbine structures and area north into Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay, blades which could lead to degrading effectiveness and con- making landfall near Quonset Point in North
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20FPUs each accounting for around 20% of the units. for executing challenging and large projects in deep water into Over 80% of the activity forecast for North America will be the ? oating wind space, including Petrobras, Shell, TotalEn- located in the U.S and Mexican Gulf of Mexico. The region ergies,
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15Cruise ships can be cleaned during normal passenger transfer port calls. Cleanings and cargo operations can occur simul- taneously. How is this possible? The EverClean robots are small and require only a single cargo van on the pier. Multiple robots can be deployed simultaneously. Precision navigation
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13with their shipping clients to identify and mitigate risks to protect the long-term health and safety of the industry. The Author Soja Rich Soja is North American Head of Marine and Global Head of Inland Marine for global commercial insurer Allianz Commercial based in New York. MR #2 (1-17).indd
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Maritime Risk Top Marine Business Risks in 2024 By Rich Soja, North American Head Marine, Allianz Commercial yber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data linked to several large ? re incidents at sea in recent years. breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry Regularly assessing and updating
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4. has a Master of Science research Soja t: (212) 477-6700 f: (212) 254-6271 Reference to any speci? c com- degree in marine ecology as well Rich Soja is North American mercial companies, products, as diplomas in journalism, com- Head of Marine and Global Head process, or service does not munication and
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 42has been ap- Great Lakes Towing pointed head of sales and marketing for the Danfoss Drives business segment in The Great Lakes Towing Company North America. has hired Salvadore Menoyo for its busi- ness development team. New Leadership at Mustang Survival, Wing Group HII Promotes Courtney Richardson
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 41Vessels WINDEA Intrepid & WINDEA Courageous The ? rst two designed, BV-classed CTVs for WINDEA CTV. The third newbuild crew and fourth vessels are under construction at St Johns, and transfer vessels construction of the ? fth vessel is well underway at Breaux (CTV) for WIN- Brothers in Louisiana.
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Passenger Vessel Safety ? re risk and related technical issues. Canada: Transport Canada.” In the U.S., last February, the Coast Guard issued a Another top issue, just as in the U.S. – workforce re- Marine Safety Alert: “Saltwater intrusion causes damage cruitment, which he called a “key issue for
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 56, which represents 60GW of potential;. as the issues with very deep waters on the West Coast of the Asia Paci? c and its 81GW of potential; and then North Amer- United States where we have one kilometer or more. [The ica, where we’re talking about 31GW,” Ortega said. third generation] is innovation in
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35ries that inspire me, of sailors getting in one of these wooden of a new realm in McNeill’s journey to bridge discovery and vessels and sailing as far north as they possibly could,” says citizen science: the ocean. While similar work has been con- McNeill from the SV Linden, Ocean Warrior’s three-masted
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9ways, actors are known to have such combat AUVs under develop- we are witnessing the real-time evolution of offensive mine ment, including Russia, China, North and South Korea, In- warfare via the deployment of hybrid weapons leveraging dia, Taiwan, Israel, France, the UK, Australia, and the United the stealth
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26, and group, it could be the start of a green deployed on major sea routes, including speci? cally the CMB.TECH team took ? eet,” said Campe. northern Europe, the Mediterranean, a marinized Volvo Penta engine and As word started to get out, Campe North Africa and West Africa. modi? ed it so
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18with Modern Marine Epoxies By Justin Peare, Marine Coatings Representative, Great Lakes Region & Matt Heffernan, Commercial Marine Business Manager, North America, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine he Motor Vessel Mark W. Barker – the ? rst U.S.- advanced coatings systems to ensure durability. Initially
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4expressed in his article cial Marine Business Manager supply chain/cargo security. Web: www.marinelink.com are solely those of the author. of North America with Sherwin- t: (212) 477-6700 f: (212) 254-6271 Reference to any speci? c com- Williams Protective & Marine. He Peare mercial companies
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20ex- tuguese Defense innovation centers under the NATO “Defence periment and train with maritime unmanned systems that op- Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic” (DIANA). erate on, above and under the sea. The two events helped improve the ability of autonomous Led by host-nation Portugal, the REPMUS
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36christened at Eastern and contract design phases, as well as detail design and con- Shipbuilding Group (ESG) in Panama City Florida in late struction. Northrop Grumman is the system integrator for the October 2023. The Coast Guard plans to procure up to 25 of C4ISR and control systems, which includes