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Unitor Contracting Div. Gets

Work On RCCL Ships

Unitor's new Marine Contract- ing Division is making a name for itself in the installation of passen- ger cabins on luxury passenger cruise liner newbuildings.

The latest contract for Unitor in this area concerns the turnkey re- sponsibility for the installation of 900 pre-fabricated passenger cab- ins (450 per ship) aboard two 74,000- grt vessels currently building at the

Helsinki New shipyard of Kvaerner

Masa-UYards for Royal Caribbean

Cruise Line (RCCL), Grandeur of the Seas and Enchantment of the

Seas. The total contract value is estimated to be approximately $4 million.

The work includes the provision of carpeting and floor coverings, as well as furniture and all technical contact points. Also included are bulkheads and ceilings in the ad- joining alleyways and a number of other rooms.

All ventilation work, sanitary and electrical systems, sprinkler systems and insulation will also be provided in these areas.

Also at the Helsinki yard, Unitor is involved in in a turnkey project on the 38,000-grt cruise liner building

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TT Club Warns Operators Of

Colombian Crackdown

The worldwide intermodal trans- port insurer, the TT Club, is warn- ing transport operators of severe fines being imposed by the Colom- bian customs authorities for inaccu- racies in documents covering cargo arriving in the South American country's ports.

In a crackdown against inaccu- rate cargo documents, as part of the

Colombian Authority's anti-smug- gling campaign, they are compar- ing: • The bill of lading (which may not be the ocean bill) against the ship's manifest; • The bill of lading against the com- mercial invoice presented for im- port clearance; • The ship's manifest against the commercial invoice; and • The cargo against all the above documents.

Any discrepancy discovered dur- ing these stringent checks will be the subject of a thorough investiga- tion by customs officials. Heavy fines may be imposed, pending in- vestigation, before release of the goods is permitted.

According to the TT Club, fines based on up to 200 percent of the value of the goods have been im- posed for such freight document dis- crepancies as: • Showing the cargo weight in pounds on one document and kilo- grams on another for the same con- signment; and • Describing the goods generically as "machinery" when the invoice lists various items by their correct description, despite the fact that the various individual items could have been accurately described as ma- chinery.

Cavalier Opens South

African Chandlery

Cavalier Marine Supply Co., of

Norfolk, Va., — which has served the ports of the U.S. East Coast as a ship chandler for more than 50 years — has opened Cavalier Marine Sup- ply Co. — Cape Town, South Africa.

The chandlery will be managed by

Attilio Juric, a native South Afri- can. Cavalier's new office is a full- service ship chandlery,offering the supply of fresh provisions, deck and engine stores, consumables, and bonded stores. In addition to being a full-service chandlery, the branch serves as Cavalier's import/export office for South Africa. The office imports mixed and full containers of consumer goods from the U.S.

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