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Libra lb Spend $330M On Ships

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Brazil trades. The other three wil be 1,600-TEU capacity ships anc will be put into separate service, tw< dedicated to Libra's operation be tween Brazil and the west coast o

South America, and the third as signed to another Libra unit

Paulista, a carrier offering full con tainer service between Brazil ant

Mediterranean ports. The vessels will be built in Brazil by Industrial

Verolme-Ishibras (IVI) and will fl; the Brazilian flag. Construction ii to begin shortly, with delivery to b< effected before the end of 1997, witl the remaining five to be completet in tandem thereafter.

NNS In Computerized Ship

Design Project Deal

A six-company team — includinj

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS)

Intergraph, Bath Iron Works, Gen eral Dynamics Electric Boat Div.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, and Advancei

Management Catalyst, a busines consulting agency at the Universit; of Michigan — has been chosen t receive a U. S. government grant tha is geared to revolutionize the desigi and construction of ships throug] the use of shared computer informa tion. The project was awarded un der a shared cost arrangement wit] the Advanced Research Project

Agency (ARPA).

The team will use the grant t implement what is known as Stan dards for the Exchange of Produc

Model Data (STEP). Once imple mented, STEP that will enable com plete exchanges of digital ship com puter models between companie using different computer modelin systems, helping to reduce costs an increase efficiencies. "When the shipyard needed equip ment to meet design requirements

STEP would allow it to transfer dat directly to the suppliers. The result ing equipment design, cost and dt livery schedule would be transferre back to the shipyard and loaded int the ship design. This process woul be accomplished in less time an with less human error than the cui rent paper-based process," saidDai

Wooley, engineering supervisoi

NNS. NNS also received funds ur der the ARPA program for the d( sign of a new, market-driven, cosi competitive LNG ship. The pre posed funding, subject to negotu tion, is $7.85 million for that projec

Ed Waryas, director, commerce marketing, cites this award as a ke element of NNS's strategy to expan into the international shipbuildin market.

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Bowler Named President Of

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R.T.E. "Tom" Bowler III h£ been named president of the Amer can Shipbuilding Association (ASA

The ASA, comprised of six of th nation's largest shipbuilders, we recently formed to promote the U.' shipbuilding industry. Mr. Bowie: a former Navy captain who, prior 1

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