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Millennium Bug Website

Demonstrated At IMO

A new site on the World Wide

Web aimed at encouraging the shipping industry to tackle its Year 2000 problem has been demon- strated at the International

Maritime Organization (IMO).

The Ship2000 Web site, a joint project between Lloyd's Register (LR) and the U.K. P&I Club and supported by the TT Club,

International Chamber of

Shipping and BIMCO, has been designed to help increase the marine community's awareness that shipboard computer systems may malfunction because their integral clocks cannot cope with the onset of the year 2000. Visitors to the Web site can access a data- base of manufacturers of equip- ment based on the list of equip- ment type approved by LR and, using the contact details or e-mail hyperlinks, seek advice appropri- ately.

For additional, in-depth infor- mation on the project, please see

MR/EN'S July 1998 Information technology section.

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Dataworks Offers New

Tanker Fixtures Program

Dataworks (U.K.) Ltd. has launched a new Tanker Fixtures program. Tanker Fixtures enables owners, brokers and charterers to keep track of fixtures made under time or voyage charters. It allows the user to store permanent vessel information, and only alters data which is relevant to each individ- ual fixture. This facility is unique to Dataworks. "The strength of the prelimi- nary orders shows once again that

Dataworks is meeting the mar- ket's needs. We are confident that

Tanker Fixtures will be as popular as Message Manager," said

Lawrence Royston, marketing director of Dataworks.

The system, which is aimed pri- marily at shipbroking companies, can be incorporated into a compa- ny's existing Dataworks ship- broking system, or it can work in the Message Manager information handling system.

Special features of the system include its ability to work in any currency desired, and the use of shortcut keys to cut typing time. It automatically cross-references against previous fixtures, saving the time-consuming searches pre- viously needed.

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Greece's Pateras Seeks

Funds To Build Ships

In a continuing trend of utiliz- ing high-yield bond issues to finance fleet start-ups and expan- sions, a dry bulk and container shipping company owned by the long-standing Greek shipowning

Pateras family is seeking to make a $126 million junk bond issue to finance debt and purchase six new ships. Pacific & Atlantic Holdings

Inc., which operates a fleet of

Handysize bulk carriers, multi- purpose and container feeder ves- sels, wants to use the proceeds to refinance $84 million of existing debt and use $34 million to acquire up to six additional ships.

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Images courtesy Avondale Industries, Inc., New

Orleans, and Newport News Shipbuilding, Norfolk. 112 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News