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Oglebay Norton Buys Self-

Unloaders

Oglebay Norton Co. has pur- chased 630-ft. (192-m), self- unloading vessels 1VI7V David Z.

Norton and M/V Wolverine from

GATX Capital Corp. Prior to this deal, Oglebay was operating the vessels under lease agreements which were due to end in 1998 and 1999. The ships carry iron ore, coal and stone on the Great Lakes.

MSI To Develop Alaskan

Simulation Training Program

MarineSafety International (MSI) has reportedly been selected by Alyeska Pipeline Co., British

Petroleum and Keystone Shipping

Co. to develop and conduct a simu- lation and training program aimed at increasing the safety of tanker operations in Valdez and Prince

William Sound, Alaska.

The program will involve all of the participants in the area's

Vessel Escort and Response Plan (VERP) and will use specific vessel models, geographic databases and custom courseware.

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A consortium of leading U.S. shipyards and CAD systems devel- opers has successfully completed the initial phase of a three-year project which aims to produce the first ship model product transla- tors. Prototype STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data) translators will enable ship- yards and designers to exchange detailed ship design information between dissimilar design sys- tems. The project is funded by the

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AmClyde Wins Wilmington

Crane Contract

AmClyde Engineered Products,

Inc. won a contract valued at approximately $3.7 million from the North Carolina State Port

Authority to supply one model

LSB-10 gantry mounted crane to the Port of Wilmington by early 1998. The machine will feature a lifting capacity of 100 short tons on the main hook and 25 tons on the auxiliary hook.

Bouygues Offshore To

Supply FPSO Topsides

Bouygues Offshore said that its joint venture with Fluor Daniel

B.V. signed a turnkey contract with Bluewater for the supply of topsides for FPSO Bleo Holm.

Bouygues Offshore subsidiary UiE

Scotland Ltd. will carry out the $75 million portion of the contract which calls for engineering, pro- curement, construction, installa- tion and commissioning of the top- sides.

Navy League Honors Lott

Senate Majority Leader Trent

Lott (R-Miss.) was recently recog- nized for his role in ensuring the passage of the Maritime Security

Act of 1996 by the Navy League, which presented him with its

Vincent T. Hirsch Maritime Award. "I'm very close to the Navy, and

I appreciate and support a strong merchant fleet so essential to our security and peace around the world ... I will always support an

American fleet," said Lott at a cer- emony held in the Russell Senate

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