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Lykes Lines Upgrades Services

The launching of Lykes Runner on

August 29, rounds out the retonnaging of Lykes Lines' North America — Africa

Service, East Coast Loop.

This multi-purpose Astrakan Mark 3

RoRo ship joins four sisterships already on the service, operating every two weeks between Canada, the U.S. and

South Africa - - all of which can carry breakbulk. bulk and container traffic — including refrigerated cargo.

BP Exploration To Merge Into

Amoco Oil

Effective October 1. 2001, BP Explo- ration & Oil Co. will merge into Amoco

Oil Company. Subsequent to this trans-

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Inc.

KVH Appoints

Bookataub

COO

KVH Industries has appointed S.

Joseph Bookataub as its new COO.

Bookataub brings extensive experi- ence in the areas of ISO procedures and certification, and supply chain manage- ment, as well as procurement and quali- ty assurance. He most recently served as vice president of Manufacturing for

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The teams at Cascade General have been honing this kind of precision planning to a science over the last 50 years. It's what allows us to complete repairs in record time—even accomplish projects previously considered impossible. It's why when you think of the most capable shipyard in the western hemisphere that consistently delivers pit stop performance, you'll think

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