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is measured in seconds.

No wonder the Coast Guard depends on Leica GPS.

COMPANY & PEOPLE NEWS cation by the mandatory imp mentation date," said W

Kwong's ISM Manager Ca

Peter Yuk.

Lloyd's Register has also appoi ed Akira Miyazaki, corpora advisor for Mitsubishi Hea

Industries in Japan, and Robe

Woods, main board director

P&O and managing director

P&O Containers Ltd., as non-exe utive directors of the classificatio society.

SeaVision Relocates

Corporate Headquarters

On July 1, SeaVision, Inc., a com pany involved in interactive televi sion for cruise ships and leisur industry applications, announce that it will relocate its headquar ters from Lisbon, Ohio, to Miami

Fla. The new office will be heade by Brian Blair, chief operatin officer, who said that two key fac- tors supported the company's deci- sion to move to Florida. "First,

Miami is the cruise capital of the world, and we recognized the need to be close to our clients. Second, as a rapidly-growing, high technol- ogy company, we are looking for a large pool of talented people, all the better if they have cruise industry experience," remarked

Mr. Blair.

Reson Renames U.K.

Division

Danish underwater acoustics firm Reson AS, known for its sonars, transducers, hydrophones and transducer calibration equip- ment, has announced that its U.K. division, formerly known as Reson

U.K., has been renamed Reson

Offshore Limited. Reson AS also has a U.S. subsidiary, Reson Inc., which manufactures the company's

SeaBat line of multibeam echo sounders.

APS Expands Agency

Network

The worldwide network of agen- cies for Advanced Polymer

Sciences, Inc., (APS) of Avon, Ohio, has been further extended with the announcement of two new appoint- ments in Europe. APS manufac- tures MarineLine, a polymer- based, aerospace technology lining for the cargo tanks of chemical and product tankers. The two new

MX400: Leica's Newest DGPS Professional Navigator

Lloyd's Certifies Hong Kong

Shipowner Under ISM,

Appoints Directors

Hong Kong Shipowner Wah

Kwong Shipping Agency has recently become the first company in Hong Kong to gain International

Safety Management (ISM) Code approval through Lloyd's Register

Certification Scheme for Ship

Operators. "It has been hard work for us to prepare our safety management system, but I believe that we are already seeing benefits to the way we work. Companies which have not yet begun to tackle the matter will find it hard to achieve certifi-

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