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Nor-Shipping '97 News

NOR-Oslo Again Proves To Be Hot Spot For Maritime Innovation shipping

Nor-Shipping, held every two years in Oslo, continues to grow in importance and is regarded as one of the international maritime industry's premier events. This year's show featured 20 national pavilions, with groups of compa- nies from the U.S. to Norway to

Japan gathering together to exhib- it their wares. The exhibition, as always, was used as a launching spot for a number of new products and services by some of the indus- try's leading companies. The fol- lowing is a quick-read guide of new products and services announced in Oslo — as well as significant news — for those who were unable to attend the event. For addition- al information, please circle the appropriate number on the Reader

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Ed Waryas, Newport News

Shipbuilding's director of

Marketing for Commercial Ship

Construction and Repair told

MR/EN that the yard has been awarded a contract for work on five ships operated by Maersk

Lines Ltd. The work performed will include drydocking, maintenance and repair of the five

U.S.-flagged RoRo vessels dedicated to the U.S. Marine

Corps' Maritime Pre- positioning Ship

Program, and include

MTV 1st Lt. Alex Bonnyman, M/V

Cpl. Louis J. Hauge, Jr., M/V Pfc.

William B. Baugh, M/V Pvt.

Franklin J. Phillips, and M/V Pfc.

James Anderson, Jr. "We are very pleased to be work- ing once again with such a respect- ed shipping company as Maersk," said Mr. Waryas.

The first ship was scheduled to arrive in mid-June, and work on all five is scheduled to be complet- ed by the beginning of 1998.

A new consortium serving navi- gation and software needs was also announced at Nor-Shipping.

United Software Distributors (USD) is a strategic alliance of five international chart distributors, together with a marine software company, that will provide the international maritime community with electronic charts and related software. The six companies will not only supply and provide updates for electronic charts, but

July, 1997

Ed Waryas of Newport

News Shipbuilding announced new con- tracts at Nor-Shiupping. in addition, the Microplot software will display and add a multitude of features to electronic charts. USD sees Microplot as an extremely user-friendly product, whose popu- larity justifies the six companies endorsement of the product to their customers. Currently, there are more than 400 permanent installations of the program. The six companies in the new consor- tium include: Thomas Gunn

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Navigation

Services (Aberdeen,

Scotland);

Maryland Nautical

Sales Inc.

TRIBON Vitesse

TRIBON Vitesse creates a new era in ship design the Rule-based Automated Design era.

TRIBON Vitesse will enable the user to write his own Vitesse programs to control design development according to his own rules with direct access to the TRIBON Product Infor- mation Model and all the functionality of the TRIBON applications.

TRIBON Vitesse has been developed in close co-opera- tion between KCS and the French shipyard Chantiers de

I 'Atlantique in St. Nazaire. Vitesse is a French word meaning speed.

TRIBON Vitesse will lead to a step change in ship design efficiency through rule-based automated design for different types of structural arrangements and outfit layouts. TRIBON

Vitesse can be applied from the smallest design standard right up to major sections of ships.

The TRIBON Shipbuilding system covers all aspects of design from initial design to production, including advanced features from the assembly phase of ship production and materials control.

Design and information systems from KCS are installed at more than 260 sites in 38 countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, North and

South America.

Efficiency (Design and Production Information)

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During 1996 a total of 422 ships were delivered which were built using the

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To Kockums Computer Systems AB, P.O. Box 50555,

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