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Saverco and Victrix with shareholdings of just over 33 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

Exmar Signs Contracts

EXMAR has signed a newbuilding contract for two Very Large Gas Carriers at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine

Engineering Co. of South Korea. The newbuildings will have a capacity of 84,000 cu. m. and the first vessel will be delivered in the first half of 2008.

EXMAR currently controls a combined fleet of 60 gas carriers servicing the entire gas product range worldwide.

Euroceanica Acquires

Seven Chem Tankers

Euroceanica (UK) Limited agreed to purchase seven modern chemical tankers from Finaval S.P.A., of Rome.

The vessels will be chartered back to

Finaval for periods of up to one year to complete their existing charters. It is then the intention of Euroceanica to maintain the chemical tankers within a time charter portfolio with leading inter- national and Italian charterers. The chemical tankers, which all fly the

European Flag, are to be technically managed by V.Ships. The Company says it hopes to come to an arrangement with

FINAVAL on retaining current crews to continue service on board the vessels.

Vessels to be acquired by

Euroceanica (UK) Limited

Name Year Built DWT

Isola Atlantica . . . . . . .2000 . . . . . . . . . . . .16,631

Isola Azzurra . . . . . . . .1997 . . . . . . . . . . . .13,843

Isola Amaranto . . . . . .1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,931

Giovanni Fagioli . . . . .1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . .9,554

Isola Ambra . . . . . . . . .1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . .8,053

Isola Corallo . . . . . . . .1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,470

Isola Mora . . . . . . . . . .1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,746

Bulbous Bow Delivered

The bulbous bow of Costa Crociere's new flagship Costa Concordia, due to enter into service by the end of spring in 2006, has been delivered today to

Fincantieri's Genoa Sestri Ponente ship- yard. The bulbous bow, which left

Fincantieri's Ancona yard where it was built, weighs 406 tons, and is 32 m long and 11.5 m high. It was transferred by sea to Sestri Ponente yard where the ship will be completed. The 112,000-ton

Costa Concordia will be Italy's largest cruise ship, 290 m in length, with 1,500 cabins and total capacity of 3,800 pas- sengers.

GlobalWatch

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AIS takes the guesswork out of vessel identification. It’s easy to interface it with your AIS-compatible

Electronic Chart System, and it clearly displays all sorts of critical navigational information. You’ll instantly see data like the name, MMSI, draft, length, and destination of all the ships in a radius of up to 30 miles. Even dynamic data such as a ship’s position, speed over ground and heading are shown. The information is real time because it’s refreshed constantly. GlobalWatch adds “intelligent”, dynamic data to your chart overlays.

It even offers simple text messaging on a computer-like keypad, instead of the cum- bersome 9-key phone pad found on other

AIS units.

Just think of the benefits. You can easily navigate through heavily-trafficked commercial ports. “See” around bends in rivers to avoid near misses or collisions. Identify the position of nearby vessels in dense, blinding fog.

GlobalWatch will radically change the way you view bridge electronics. And best of all, it’s built by a name you already know and trust – ACR.

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Two ships passing in the night are no longer nameless.

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