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- Bollinger opts for Oracle page: 52
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on March 2000In tying its eight diverse facilities together with a state-of-the-art information system, Bollinger Shipyards plans to recoup monetary and efficiency rewards far exceeding the $2.5 million investment. Bollinger Shipyards has aggressively pursued a course of expansion of physical facilities ov
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- Smooth Sailing page: 34
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on March 2000Electronic update service for digital charts equals a radical new service in the United States The entire suite of 1,000 official NOAA nautical charts has been available in digital raster form since 1995. These high quality, full color, geo-referenced images of NOAA's paper charts are made
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on March 2000It's one stop shopping on Florida's west coast at Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair, which offers its full service facilities, including three graving docks and direct access from the Gulf of Mexico. Touted by its owners as the largest yard between Pascagoula, Miss, and Hampton Roads, Va., Tamp
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- Vessels Make Pit Stop At Bay Ship page: 30
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on March 2000Traditionally Alaskan cruise vessels are known to make regular stopovers at Bay Ship & Yacht Co.'s Alameda, Calif, shipyard and drydock facility for routine maintenance and repairs. The yard has served as host to clients, such as Special Expedition Marine, which brought in its Sea Bird and Se
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on March 2000Irving Shipbuilding's ship repair facilities in Nova Scotia, Canada at Halifax Shipyard and Dartmouth Marine Slips have been very active during the last few months. The yard has attained a variety of work involving containerships, RoRos, OSVs, tugs and Government vessels. M/V Sanderling, M/V C
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on March 2000While much of the focus is trained on Naval new construction, the fact is that repair and maintenance on the existing U.S. Navy fleet has reached condition critical. Cutbacks from the Navy have left many vessels of its 300-member fleet to go without required repairs and maintenance because th
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- High Times Again in Singapore? page: 22
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on March 2000Singapore, once revered for its seem- ingly insurmountable edge in the ship repair and conversion business, has fall en on harder times in recent years. The forces which have slowed the area's break-neck pace of expansion and dom- inance are not at all unfamiliar to ship- builders and repaire
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on March 2000A backlash against older tankers and flags of convenience, triggered by the December sinking of the Erika off the coast of France, achieved a tangible first step last week with the signing of a Ship Safety Charter by oil majors and ship classification firms involved in the French petroleum shi
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on March 2000The cost of maintaining Navy ships is measured in billions of dollars and millions of man-hours. Requiring sailors to perform excessive, unnecessary, and often counter-productive maintenance does more than waste money. It also wastes that most precious of commodities — sailors' time. This problem
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on March 2000New orders received by South Korean shipbuilders in January totaled 1.06 million- gt, up 164.7 percent from the same month a year earlier, provisional figures from the Korea Shipbuilders' Association showed. South Korean shipbuilders received orders for 16 ships in January, the association sa
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- A broader-based payback from R&D page: 8
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on March 2000Consolidation in the diesel engine building sector is partly a reflection of the substantial capital expenditure required to maintain product development and technological advance in a business characterized by comparatively low unit margins. By spinning-off new technical solutions arising from t
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on February 2000Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, The Duclos Corporation, has begun construction of a new all-aluminum catamaran, which will join three other high-speed ferries built by the shipyard for Boston-based Boston Harbor Cruises. Measuing 142.6 ft. (43.4 m). on the deck, 39 ft. (11.8 m) abeam and carryi
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- STN Introduces New Speed Log page: 60
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on February 2000STN Atlas Marine Electronics has introduced a new integrated satellite navigation and speed log system with combined 24-channel GPS-Glonass positioning. Providing simultaneous or separate position and speed calculations via GPS, Differential GPS and/or Glonass satellites, the Debeg Satlog 41
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- Furuno Introduces CH-37 Sonar page: 60
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on February 2000New from Furuno is CH-37, the world's only phased array sector scan sonar. Measuring 15-in., this highperformance daylight viewing unit allows the operator to choose from forward, vertical or searchlight scan modes. Incorporating Furuno's phased array technology, CH-37 scans a full 360-degre
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- GD Appoints Welch As Snr. VP page: 60
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on February 2000General Dynamics (GD) has named John K. Welch as senior vice president of the corporation and head of the marine systems group, which includes all of the company's shipbuilding and marine service operations. Welch will report to Nicholas D. Chabraja, GD chairman and CEO. at the company's Fal
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on February 2000Golden Ocean Group Limited has come to an agreement in principle with holders of more than 40 percent in principal amount of its 10 percent senior notes due 2001. In accordance with this agreement in principle, the company, as well as two intermediate holding company subsidiaries filed a peti
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on February 2000Schoellhorn-Albrecht delivered two of the largest high holding power anchors for installation onboard USNS Charlton — the fifth of seven Sealift New Construction ships. Built by NASSCO. the vessels are part of the Strategic Sealift Program. The AC- 14 Type anchors were proof tested to 272,0
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- GDHS Launches Friobox Express page: 56
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on February 2000Dubbed as the world's new way to "keep the temperature controlled" for perishable goods in transit, GDHS has launched Friobox Express — the world's only flat packed temperature control unit. In development for approximately three years, Friobox Express is comprised of revolutionary flat packe
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on February 2000Allied Systems of Sherwood, Ore. recently tested and delivered its premiere SOLAS certified rescue boat davit. Since supplying almost 200 similar davits to a variety of U.S. and foreign governmental agencies, Allied is in preparations to offer boat davit systems to the global commercial secto
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on February 2000Finland posted a record monthly trade surplus for October, boosted by a major deal by one of its shipyards and accelerating economic recovery. The customs board's preliminary data for October showed a trade surplus of a record $ 1.4 billion, with exports up 14 percent yearon- year at $4.1 bil