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WHICH DATA SOURCE PROVIDES FASTER,

MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION

YOURS...OR OURS? Y ou've spent years building and main- taining a library of maritime informa- tion . . . and you know that a good deal of the information it contains can become easily outdated.

Even when you manage to collect everything cur- rent, you still face the task of sorting and manually recording the data so it can be put into a usable form. You probably wish you could push a button . . . and there it is.

You can.

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FOR EXAMPLE, MARDATA's Ship Movement

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MARDATA also provides definitive data on:

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