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Meyer Werft Books

Livestock Carrier Conversion

For Kuwait

Meyer Werft of Papenburg,

Germany, has received an order for the conversion of a car carrier into a livestock carrier. The order was placed by the Kuwait Livestock

Transport and Trading Co. (KLLT).

It is the twenty-sixth livestock car- rier conversion for the shipyard.

Meyer Werft reportedly competed with Southeast Asian shipyards for the contract; there were reportedly no European shipyards among the contenders.

The conversion of Al Messilah will be carried out under the man- agement of Meyer Werft in cooper- ation with a shipyard in

Klaipeda/Lithuania and

Motorenwerke Bremerhaven (MWB), Germany. The final outfit- ting work — installation of pens, fodder, drinking water and ventila- tion systems — will be completed in Papenburg. The total conver- sion period will be approximately 11 months. With a length of 610.2 ft. (186 m) and a breadth of 104.9 ft. (32 m), the ship will be capable of carrying 80,000 sheep or 75,000 sheep and 500 cattle.

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Gardy McGrath Produces

Video Detailing

Environmental Systems On 21 st Century Navy Ship

Using state-of-the-art 3-D anima- tion and digital technology, Gardy

McGrath has completed a video production for the Chief of Naval

Operations detailing the integra- tion of the latest U.S. Navy envi- ronmental protection technology into the naval ship of the 21st cen- tury. Introducing the premise that a Navy ship is actually a "floating city" with numerous waste streams that are continually present, the tape depicts the challenges Navy engineers have had to face throughout the past 25 years of developing systems resulting in

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Marine Electronics Solutions

Named Manufacturer's Rep

For Six Companies

Marine Electronics Solutions

Inc., based in Florida, has been named the manufacturer's repre- sentative in the Southeast and

Gulf Coast regions for the follow- ing companies: Transas Marine;

Marisys; Mitel-Marine Adaptive

Systems; Norselight/Kockum

Sonics; Seiko Marine Clock

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Liberian Shipowners'

Council Opposes ITF "Week of Action"

Faced with stepped-up efforts by the International Transport

Workers' Federation (ITF) to com- bat the rise of "flag of convenience" shipping, the largest association of owners and operators using Open

Registry, the Liberian Shipowners'

Association, has issued a state- ment. "We are facing yet another attempt by the ITF to threaten open registry shipowners with boy- cott action," said Jeremy M.S.

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