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Nautronix Appoints Agent

Nautronix appointed Frank L.

Beier Radio as its sales and service agent for Dynamic Positioning Sys- tems for the Gulf of Mexico.

Nautronix, with more than 25 years experience in Dynamic Posi- tioning, produces the 4th generation

ASK4000 series of Dynamic Posi- tioning Systems. The series ranges from Simple Joystick to Triple Re- dundant Automatic Position Keep- ing Systems per DNV, Lloyds and

ABS guidelines. Beier Radio pro- vides a variety of electronic prod- ucts and services to the offshore oil, ocean shipping and workboat mar- kets. Products and services include navigation and communication equipment, vessel monitoring sys- tems, cargo monitoring, on-board communications and dynamic posi- tioning systems. The company has service and installation offices in

Mobile, Ala.; New Orleans and

Michigan City, La.; Los Angeles; and Houston, Texas.

Aalborg Ciserv Makes New

Appointments

Aalborg Ciserv San Francisco,

Inc. appointedBenny Elmengaard as president of the oganization, and

Jorgen Regstad as executive vice president, which will include re- sponsibility for sales, marketing and business development.

Tracor Unit Wins $32 Million

Navy Contract

Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of Tracor, Inc., won a $32 million, four-year contract with op- tions to provide engineering and technical services for U.S. Navy com- munications-electronics platforms.

The contract is for the Joint Spe- cial Operations Division, Naval Com- mand and Control and Ocean Sur- veillance Center In-Service Engi- neering East Coast Division Detach- ment in St. Inigoes, Md. The work will include rapid-response engi- neering, design and systems inte- gration of communications-electron- ics equipment for vehicles, boats, ships and aircraft, including manned-portable systems, to a wide variety of Navy, Joint Service, and other non-defense agencies.

P&O European Passenger

Traffic, Bookings Rise

P&O Steam Navigation Co. said passenger traffic from January 1994 until May 1994 for its P&O Euro- pean Ferries unit was up 10 percent from the previous year, and that its bookings for the remainder of the year were up 13 percent.

The Dover-Calais service carried 3.7 million passengers during those months, up 32 percent from the same period in 1993. P&O also said tour- ist vehicle traffic was up 42 percent, and that its market share on the

Dover-Calais route rose eight per- cent during the five months.

Kvaerner Wins Sealift/

MarAd Contracts

Kvaerner Ships Equipment AB of Gothenburg, Sweden has secured two contracts for vessels being con- verted and upgraded for operation with the U.S. Navy's Strategic Sealift

Command and the Ready Reserve

Force. Three former Maersk L-

Class containerships^Laam Maersk,

Liese Maersk and Lica Maersk, un- dergoing conversion at NASSCO into RoRo containerships for the

U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Com- mand, will be fitted with Kvaerner- designed hatch covers, hoistable

RoRo decks and watertight cargo doors. Meanwhile a team of special- ist RoRo engineers from

Gothenburg, assisted by Kvaerner

Eureka Inc. of New Orleans, re- cently completed one of Kvaerner

Eureka's largest service contracts ever on two former Leif Hoegh

RoRos purchased by the Maritime

Administration (MarAd) for opera- tion with the Ready Reserve Force.

The vessels involved were the 32,772- grt Cape Wrath (formerly Hual

Trader) and the 32,695-g:t Cape

Washington (formerly Hual Trans- porter), built in Gdynia, Poland.

Kvaerner personnel worked on the vessels for three months at

Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point yard in Maryland, overhauling and upgrading systems.

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