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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Leica Initiates International

Strategy

Leica GPS has announced three appointments to its marine GPS sales force, in a move to provide better support to its international dealer network and customers.

Stuart Tolman has been named

Marine Sales manger for the U.S. market, and has established a new sales office in Fort Lauderdale,

Fla. Mr. Tolman was previously

Sales manager of Leica's Torrance,

Calif., office.

Peter Devantier has been appointed Marine Sales manager for the European market. He will operate out of Copenhagen. Mr.

Devantier was previously a Sales manager for Litton Marine

Systems.

Matthew Smith will handle marine GPS sales for Southeast

Asia from Leica's office in

Singapore, in addition to his exist- ing responsibility for survey prod- ucts in the same territory. He pre- viously worked in Leica's Australia and Malaysia offices. The objec- tive of this restructuring is to enable the company to provide direct sales support within key regional time zones.

International Registries

Appoints New President

Brigadier General (Ret.) Charles H.

Baumann has been appointed president and COO of

International

Registries, Inc., the administrator of the maritime and corpo- rate programs of the

Republic of Liberia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Mr.

Baumann was previously the executive vice president and gen- eral manager of the International

Trust Company of Liberia.

BMT Acquires SMS

Scientific Marine Services, Inc. (SMS) has been acquired by inter- national research and technology organization British Maritime

Technology Ltd. (BMT), as announced at the recent Offshore

Technology Conference (OTC) in

Houston, Texas. According to SMS

Chairman Frank DeBord, no changes have been planned of yet in regard to SMS management or operations, and the company will continue to operate out of its offices in Escondido, Calif, and

Houston, Texas.

Frontline And OMI Form

Chartering Company

Frontline Ltd. and OMI Corp. have formed Alliance Chartering

LLC, which will handle the char- tering of both companies' Suezmax fleets. "The charting of the fleets, including three vessels being delivered to each company this summer, presents opportunities to reduce overhead costs for both companies and to offer a more effi- cient and flexible service to our customers," said John

Frederiksen, Frontline CEO.

The new chartering company will initially commercially manage a fleet of 26 Suezmax tankers and

OBOs. In addition, the companies have 10 newbuildings on order.

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