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This business will be operated under Harley Marine Gulf. Formed in 1976, MGI has eight boats on long term charter that operate twelve dou- ble hull barges in all. Four of the barges transfer product between ter- minals and eight are bunker barges that work in the Houston, Galveston and Lake Charles areas with two sta- tioned in New Orleans.

Konrad Marine’s 20th

Anniversary, Business of the Year 2011 marks Konrad Marine's 20th anniversary of bringing stern drive technology to the commercial, recre- ational and military marine market- places. The company recorded the highest sales volume in their 20-year history at the close of 2010. In addi- tion, Konrad Marine was recently named Business of the Year 2010, by the Hudson Area Chamber of

Commerce. Konrad Marine was selected for this award based upon innovation in their industry, quality of service, involvement and support in their community.

Cargotec Cement Handling

Systems for Malaysian Barges

At the end of January, Cargotec received an order for MacGregor cement self-loading/unloading sys- tems to be installed on two 7,000 dwt barges being built by Shin Yang

Shipyard in Miri, Malaysia. Delivery to Shin Yang Shipping is scheduled for Sept. 2011 and the barges will trade on Malaysian routes between

Kuching and Sibu, and between

Kuching and Miri. The cargo owner is CMS Cement Sdn Bhd, a cement manufacturer in Sarawak. The pneu- matic systems will have rated capaci- ties of 300 t/h for loading and 250 t/h for unloading.

E.R. Schiffahrt Goes Global with Viking

Viking Life-Saving Equipment and

E.R. Schiffahrt have teamed up to design a fully customized, global serv- icing arrangement based on Viking’s

Shipowner Agreements. The contract covers liferafts, lifeboats, immersion suits, lifejackets and marine fire sys- tems and equipment such as fire extinguishers on more than 30 vessels of the shipowner’s fleet.The plan is for Viking to manage not just service notifications, but also the coordina- tion of all servicing. While lifeboats and marine fire equipment will be covered under a fixed-price servicing arrangement, E.R. Schiffahrt saw advantages in replacing other brand liferafts with Viking products.

Together with the immersion suits, these new liferafts will be serviced via fixed-price exchange, which sees products simply being swapped out as their certificates expire.

MarineCFO Announces Enterprise

Version 3.0

MarineCFO Inc. announced the release of Enterprise Version 3.0. which provides a configurable soft- ware solution that can grow and change with the business.

MarineCFO Enterprise v3.0 is based on the MarineCFO Business

Framework, the toolset used to devel- op and enhance all of the

MarineCFO products. This allows for controlled development and consis- tency across the interfaces and coding methodologies. With a strong

Microsoft relationship, all products are built with mainstream Microsoft technologies. This includes the .NET framework, SQL Server, the

Windows Communication

Foundation and Microsoft Office for productivity, analysis and heavy data entry tasks.

EPA, USCG Cooperate on VGP

Enforcement

The U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) signed a Memorandum of

Understanding (MOU) outlining steps the agencies will take to better coordinate efforts to prevent illegal discharges of pollutants from more than 61,000 commercial ships based in the U.S. and more than 8,000 for- eign ships operating in U.S. waters.

This MOU creates a framework for improving EPA and USCG coopera- tion on data tracking, training, mon- itoring, verifying compliance and industry outreach. Under the MOU, the Coast Guard has agreed to incor- porate components of EPA’s vessel general permit (VGP) program into its existing inspection protocols and procedures to help the United States

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