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facility for its new headquarters, located at 50

Enterprise Center in Middletown, R.I. This new facility is adjacent to the company's current leased facility, and will house the Administration,

Engineering and Manufacturing departments.

GEC Alsthom Awarded Contract

GEC Alsthom has won an order from Metrovias of Argentina to upgrade the Buenos Aires metro signalling system. CMW Equipamentos, GEC

Alsthom's Brazilian subsidiary, will supply onboard signaling systems for 79 trains and a complete signaling system for automatic train control and central traffic management. The upgrade encompasses 53 stations on four lines, covering a distance of 32 km. The new system is expected to improve train performance and ensure greater passenger safety.

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Aker Appoints VP

Contracts/Marketing

Houston-based Aker

Marine, Inc. (AMI) has named Larry W. Bobbitt as vice president of

Contracts and Marketing.

He has 15 years of prior experience in the contract drilling business, and before accepting his latest appointment, was employed in the same capacity by Diamond Offshore.

AMI is an installation contractor special- izing in engineered solutions for the world- wide offshore industry, principally focused on deepwater mooring system design, hook-ups of FPS/FPSOs and MODUs, sub- sea installations, structural mating ser- vices and fuel/product terminals.

Tracor Signs Agreement To Sell

Division To SIMCO

Austin, Texas-based, defense electronics manufacturer Tracor, Inc., and SIMCO

Electronics, Santa Clara, Calif., announced that they have signed a defini- tive agreement providing for the purchase of a Tracor division by SIMCO for $7.5 mil- lion. The division, which is involved in instrument repair and callibration, is known as the Instrument Services

Division, and is part of AEL Industries,

Inc., acquired by Tracor in February.

SIMCO CEO Lee Kenna, Jr. said that the acquisition has opened up new growth opportunities: "National geographic cover- age and the technical capability of Tracor's personnel make SIMCO the largest suppli- er of non-warranty instrument callibration and repair in the United States, with the broadest range of technology."

SIMCO Electronics provides technical services to the U.S. government and high- technology manufacturers in the biotech- nology, semiconductor, computer and aero- space industries.

TT Club Adds New Directors

At its recent board meeting in Taipei, the

TT Club appointed three new directors, namely: Robert Cooper; C. Eugene

Cox; and Lua Cheng Eng.

Mr. Cooper is chief executive of Ports of

Auckland Ltd. and presi- dent of the International

Association of Ports and

Harbors (ITPH). He is also a former international vice president of the

International Cargo

Handling Co-ordination

Association (ICHCA), and chairman of the New

Zealand Container

Terminal Operators

Association.

Mr. Cox is senior vice president with responsibility for Engineering and

Operations for the Bermuda Electric Light

Co. Mr. Eng has been CEO of Neptune

Orient Lines Ltd., Singapore, since 1979, and the company's deputy chairman since 1990. He is also president of the Singapore

National Shipping Association, chairman of Jurong Shipyard Ltd., a director of

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