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New Va. Maritime

Consultancy To Offer Safety

Compliance Services

A new, independent, maritime consulting company — Marine

Technology Corporation — has formed in Williamsburg, Va. The company will advise shipyards on strategy matters, as well as pro- vide assistance in selected areas related to operations, facilities and marketing. For example, the com- pany will offer marine safety ser- vices, including compliance assis- tance, response plan development and spill management services, and productivity enhancement programs. A. Manchinu is the company president and a partner in the firm, joined by partners

Steinar Draegebo and Olav

Furnes.

For more information on

Marine Technology Corporation

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Osprey-Acomarit

Operations Meet ISM

Requirements 23 departments and functions.

The yard's certification is valid for drydocking facilities and ship repair work, including pipework, steelwork, galvanizing, internal and external hull treatment, mechanical and electrial repairs and ancillary services.

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Dubai Drydocks

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CIT Group Makes Executive

Appointments

The CIT Group/Capital Equip- ment Financing, located in N.Y.,

N.Y., has announced several new appointments. Terrence McNa- mara has joined the company as vice president, district manager.

Julie Rogers, Thomas W. Boe- gel and V. Michael Salatino have joined the company as district managers.

The CIT Group/Capital Equip- ment Financing is involved in financing different types of special- ized equipment, evaluating financ- ing alternatives and custom de- signing programs to meet the needs of companies in the trans- portation industry

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McDermott's skills as the world leader in marine construction for the oil and gas industry are helping keep the fleets of our ship repair and shipbuilding customers operating competitively.

McDermott has established a solid reputation for quality and delivery in all aspects of international ship repair and structural fabrication at its TNG shipyard in Veracruz, Mexico.

WE'RE HELPING GET ANCHORS AWEIGH ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Betheseda, Md.-based ship man- ager Osprey-Acomarit Ship Man- agement, Inc. has met the quality and safety standards of ISO 9002, and Det Norske Veritas' (DNV)

Safety and Environmental

Protection (SEP) Management standards — standards which exceed those required under IMO's

ISM Code. This joint venture com- pany, owned by American Automar,

Inc. and international ship man- agement and consultancy group

Acomarit, is reportedly one of the first U.S.-based ship managers to attain this accreditation.

American Automar's U.S.-flagged

M/V Cormorant has also been cer- tified to DNV's SEP standard.

This semi-submersible, heavy-lift vessel participates in the U.S.

Navy's prepositioned fleet under charter to the Military Sealift

Command.

In other company news, Osprey-

Acomarit has been contracted with managing the reactivation and operation of 32,000-dwt, U.S.- flagged, clean product tanker

Falcon Leader.

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Acomarit Ship Management, Inc.

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Dubai Drydocks Earns ISO

Certification

French classification society Det

Norske Veritas (DNV) has certified

Dubai Drydocks for ISO 9002 stan- dards. The accreditation, which was ratified by the U.K. National

Accreditation Council for

Certification Bodies, was the cul- mination of two years of efforts directed towards formalizing the yard's operating systems covering

With headquarters conveniently located adjacent to the New Orleans airport,

McDermott Shipbuilding, Inc. coordinates naval architectural design and project management using state-of-the-art

CAD/CAM/CAE systems to design ships and execute projects even in remote regions of the world.

McDermott is a leading U.S. builder of brown-water barges, including construction of fuel, bulk and hopper barges at its

Morgan City Shipyard in Louisiana.

Whether it's a tanker, containership, bulker or barge, McDermott produces vessels up to Panamax-size that meet your shipping needs. Let us help launch your next dream. Call J. M. "Mike" Pearson,

Vice President & General Manager at (504) 471-4000. Or write him at

McDermott Shipbuilding, 1650 James

Drive East, St. Rose, LA 70087. • ship repair • new buildings • barges

Where the world comes for energy solutions.

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