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Jotun And NOF Marine

Coatings Join Forces

A keynote agreement was signed in

Oslo, between Jotun A/S (Jotun) and

NOF Kansai Marine Coatings Co.. Ltd. (NKM). The new company, which will be known as SeaStar Alliance will serve the worldwide marine and offshore coat- ing market.

NKM is a joint venture between Kan- sai Paint Co. Ltd. And BASF/NOF Coat- ings Co. Ltd. — all of which are major players in the international coatings industry. This joint venture, presently services more than 20 percent of the considerable Japanese market for marine coatings. Jotun, which is a lead- ing participant in the marine coatings throughout Europe, South Africa, the

Middle East. Southeast Asia, South

Korea. China, Australia and the Americ- as — holds a marketshare close to 20 percent.

The SeaStar Alliance will provide cus- tomers with access to the world's largest single-supplier range of advanced coat- ings.

Among these products are Takata

Quantum and SeaQuantum TBT free selfpolishing antifoulings, which offer shipowners fuel saving benefits and five years trading free from fouling.

In the crucial task of replicating, in

TBT free products, the predictable foul- ing control offered by conventional self- polishing antifoulings, NOF has provid- ed groundbreaking development of silyl-based copolymers, which serve as the cornerstone for NOF's Takata Quan- tum and Jotun's Sea Quantum antifoul- ings.

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Carnival Corp. Charters

Former AMCV Ship

Carnival Corp.'s Holland America

Line brand has entered into a long- term agreement to charter the cruise ship, which was also once known as m/s

Nieuw Amsterdam, to Cypress-based

Louis Cruises, which will subcharter the vessel to Thomson Holidays in the

U.K., effective immediately. The vessel will be marketed as the Thomson Spirit.

Holland America sold the vessel to

U.S. Lines, a subsidiary of AMCV in 2000, which operated the ship in Hawaii under the name Patriot; however, it was reclaimed by Holland America in fore- closure proceedings earlier this year.

Carnival will account for this charter as a sale, which, including related expenses, is, expected to result in a charge to earnings of approximately $9 million in its second fiscal quarter of 2002.

Keppel Integrates

Offshore and Marine

Keppel Corporation has formed a

Center of Excellence for the offshore rigbuilding and marine conversion industry, in Singapore — in conjunction with the integration of its Offshore and

Marine businesses.

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CRANKSHAFT GRINDING

LINE BORING

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Goltens

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Phone:+1 718 855 7200

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