Trinity Industries, Inc. has acquired Platzer Shipyard, Inc. of Houston, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The announcement was made by John Dane III, president of the Trinity ...

The multi-purpose fleet of single and 'tweendeck general cargo ships is surprisingly large — numbering nearly 17,000 vessels totaling about 80 million dwt — and is estimated to carry more than ...

AMONG the men who have recognized the op-portunities offered by war conditions in shipping and improved them with the argest measure of success is H. Farquharson Kerr, organizer and now president ...

THE dangers of the sea have been much diminished by modern science and invention in the line of preventive devices, and especially life-saving appliances, the manufacture of which has been ...

VisualSMP is a suite of tools used in the prediction and analysis of a ship's seakeeping characteristics. Included in VisualSMP is the SMP95 strip theory based frequency domain seakeeping program ...

SIMON LAKE, distinguished engineer, who has borne a major part in the development of the submarine as a practical device, was born in Pleasantville, N. J., September 4, 1866, the son of Christopher J.

ACAREER filled with important activities in banking, shipping, commerce, and journalism is that of George Stefanos Varounis. He was born in Sparta, Greece, the son of Stefanos and Vassilike ...

French petroleum company Elf Aquitaine's 721-ft. (219.7-m) floating production unit left the port of Fos-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of France on March 16 for a voyage of approximately six ...

T! Ihe fallout from the Asian currency crisis has cast a giant shadow over an already depressed container market, and threatens the 20+ year record of uninterrupted global growth, which has always ...

High-tech systems and time-saving products are beneficial to today shipbuilders, but they are not substitutes for hard work and good attitudes. Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) now has both working ...

THE ocean route from Spain to the Americas was, beginning with the discovery by Columbus, almost monopolized by Spanish vessels for a century or more, and since that time has been constantly ...

Late last year, following four years of construction, Shell 011 Company's recordsetting "Auger" tension leg platform (TLP) was towed out to its new home, some 255 miles southeast of Houston, Texas ...