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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

First U.S. Training Center

Earns DNV Certification

The Maritime Institute of

Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS) has become the first

U.S. maritime training and simu- lator center to receive certification of its quality standards system under DNVs Rules for Maritime

Training and Simulators Centers.

MITAGS is the organization for international training of masters, mates and pilots, plus both foreign and domestic merchant marines

Baltek To Handle Prisma

Sales And Marketing

Baltek Corporation has made an agreement with Compsys, Inc. for the sales and marketing responsibilities of Prisma

Composite Preforms.

The agreement expands

Baltek's boat and shipbuilding product line.

Purpura Welcomed At PCCI

Carolynn Purpura, formerly of ROH Inc., has joined the PCCI staff to provide ocean engineering, salvage, diving, underwater ship hus- bandry and pollution support services on behalf of the U.S.

Navy's Emergency

Ship Salvage

Material (ESSM) operations.

Sea Containers Acquires

Holyman Sally

Sea Containers, Ltd. subsidiary

Hoverspeed has acquired 50 per- cent of Holyman Sally in an effort to take over management of the company's passenger and car ferry services from Belgium to Britain.

Collins And Mackay

Combine To Form Joint

Sales And Service Forces

Mackay Communications, Inc. and Collins Marine Corp. have combined to form a joint sales and service venture in San Francisco,

Calif.

Together, the two companies will specialize in Furuno equip- ment, fire safety equipment, navi- gational equipment, satcoms, radars, GMDSS and shipboard electronics.

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Portuguese Shipyards Install

Autoship

Two of Portugal's largest ports,

Estaleriois Navais De Viana Do

Castelo (ENVC) of Viana Do

Castelo and Estaleriois Navais Do

Montego (ENDM) of Figueira Da

Foz, have installed Autoship sys- tems full naval architecture pro- grams. The two shipyards are reportedly using Autoship for hull design, Autohydro for intact and damage stability, Autobuild for structural design.

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London Club Gains On 1998 Renewal

The London P&I Club gained two million gt at the 1998 renewal.

Overall tonnage, including char- terers' entries and reinsured ton- nage, is now 33 million gt.

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It's good to know that ships of any size, in almost any kind of trouble can be returned to operational mode In the ports of

Vancouver or Victoria, British Columbia. j> .* Vancouver Shipyards together with Seaspan International 11 will pick up and deliver crippled ships to drydock.

L|. . Experienced repair teams take over and the -igSSr ship is on its way again without delay.

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