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Sperry Plans Joint Venture

With Chinese Company

A delegation from China recently visited Sperry Marine in

Charlottesville, Va. to draft a letter of intent between Sperry and

Shanghai Marine Instrument Co.

This was the planned next step in joint venture negotiations that

Sperry Marine Chairman John F.

Lehman initiated earlier this year in Beijing.

The joint venture will permit

Sperry to build on the company's recent commercial sales and manu- facturing progress and make avail- able the advanced quality and high technology products manufactured in Sperry Marine's Charlottesville plant in the expanding Chinese maritime navigation equipment market.

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British Maritime Technology

Enters Technical Merge

Agreement

British Maritime Technology

Ltd. (BMT) and the Defense Re- search Agency (DRA) entered a long-term agreement to merge and jointly operate their technical re- sources for the hydrodynamic mod- eling of ships, underwater vehicles, marine structures and other spe- cialized applications. The joint op- eration will include all hydrody- namic model making, measurement and analysis, will be centered on the DRA Haslar site at Gosport (Hants) and will be operated as the

Haslar Hydrodynamic Test Center.

Under the agreement, a com- bined specialist team will manage and develop the comprehensive hy- drodynamic testing facilities at DRA

Haslar which will be supplemented by the relocation of hydrodynamic test equipment operated by BMT at

Teddington.

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ABS In Agreement With

USCG On Passenger Vessels

The American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) entered into an agree- ment of cooperation with the U.S.

Coast Guard (USCG) to facilitate satisfactory control verification ex- amination of foreign-flag passenger ships — ABS-class ships carrying more than 36 passengers — which intend to trade in U.S. territorial waters. "This is another in a long line of working arrangements between

ABS and the USCG aimed at im- proving safety and administrative efficiency to the benefit of the ma- rine industry," said Robert

Somerville, ABS president.

Under the terms of this agree- ment, ABS will verify compliance with applicable USCG standards during the design, plan review, and inspection phases of foreign-flag passenger ship construction or con- version projects. ABS will act as a single point of contact for the ship- yard and owner while the USCG will maintain oversight. The direct line of communication and coopera- tive effort is designed to facilitate

USCG acceptance.

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Seaward Awarded $3.32

Million Contract To Operate,

Maintain Air Force Vessels

Seaward Services, Inc. was awarded a five-year, $3.32-million federal prime contract by the 325th

Contracting Squadron of Tyndall

Air Force Base to provide for the operation and maintenance of three 120-ft. (36.5-m) high speed missile retrievers and two 24-ft. (7.3-m) range clearance vessels. Seaward

Services provides a variety of ma- rine, engineering and technical sup- port services to the Naval Surface

Warfare Center (Ft. Lauderdale,

Fla.), the Naval Undersea Warfare

Center (Newport, R.I.) and the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (Chicago).

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Seaward Services

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