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Hubbard, Oregon. A CNC machine shop,

Brookway's move allows for closer proximity to

Ulven Forging Inc., also in Hubbard.

The offices of President Andrew Ulven, Chief

Financial Officer John Schrenk, newly appointed Marketing Coordinator Linda S. Bye and the accounting staff have also relocated.

Bollinger Algiers Christens New Dock

Bollinger's new, 200-ton drydoc\Miss Darby was christened on Feb. 22 at BollingecAlgiers, a repair yard on the Mississippi River acboss from the foot of Canal Street in New OrleanSw The drydock — named for the chairman of board's granddaugher, Darby Bollinger went to work immediately after the ceremony j 143-ft. (43.5-m) ocean tug Ranger, operate^

Caribbean Towing Co. of Mandeville.

The new dock was designed by McDerraCtt and built at the company's recently upgraded ship- yard in Vera Cruz, Mexico.

The Algiers yard is expected to 35 employ- ees when a new wet dock facilitjns completed by the end of this year. Accordfng to Donald T.

Bollinger, Bollinger Shipyards expects rev- enues of $180 to $200 million this year. 33731 KUdmoti Strata

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BV Launches Major U.S. Expansion

At a press confereiy;e at an industry show in

Stamford, Conn., ow March 18, classification society Bureau Vestas (BV) announced that it will launch an iunbitious development project aimed at the JB.S. market. Gilberto Chaves has been najped as the new regional vice presi- dent of th<^\mericas, and will reportedly take an office inJme Miami area. "We intend to improve the support we can give to 01^present international owners whose ships visjc U.S. ports, and we intend to provide the shipping market with a new technical part- ier offering a complete range of consultancy ser- vices," said Mr. Chaves in a press statement, investment will focus on two BV subsidiaries inShe U.S.: Bureau Veritas North America Inc., whicrN^ill provide traditional ship classification and statufcqj^ certification; and a new company,

Tecnitas Noruh^jnerica Ltd., which will provide information, technl^^»^assistance, design, modi- fications and repairs, cal^iLitions, risk analysis and assistance with human f^«tor-related regu- lations such as the ISM Code antf^TCW.

Additionally, BV announced a ne^Port State

Control (PSC) initiative. The societ^vill offer training to ships' crew concerning howYo main- tain vessels in order to avoid detentionlby PSC authorities. 1 The scheme will conlist of a training ppckage which will bel intro- duced and delivered onboard by BV survey- ors to ships' officers, who will then be equipped with comput- erized training pro- grams on CD-ROM for training mariners.

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Mascom Marine

Electronics is a newly formed marine elec- tronics company, based in Oudenbosch, the

Netherlands. The com- pany was repor^dly started by narj^fc IJe former i)iIIMTIijniJll 11f naviga- range of

Raytheon high seas electronics, including radars, ECDIS and integrated bridge sys- tems, as well Standard

Radio GMDSS and communications prod- ucts.

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