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The Canadian shipbuilding industry consists primarily of com- panies that construct and repair a variety of vessels including barges, cargo vessels, dredges, drilling ves- sels, icebreakers, jack-up drilling rigs, military vessels, passenger ships, semi-submersibles, tankers and tugs, with a displacement of five tons and up. Currently, seven larger shipyards, which employ approximately 4,500 people, are involved in both new construction and ship repair. The industry is largely Canadian-owned; however, there are some successful shipyards owned by companies which also operate fleets of ships. In recent years import and export tonnage for Canada has increased substan- tially. International cargo makes up a large percentage of the total tonnage, and transborder traffic to and from the U.S. accounts for nearly all of it.

The 12 companies represented by the Canadian Shipowners

Association handles most of the

Canada-U.S. traffic on Canadian flagged vessels in eastern Canada.

In addition to the shipbuilding and repair sector, Canada's marine industry is supplemented by sever- al companies involved in design, supply, consulting, engineering, manufacturing and software. The following is an update of recent activities at major Canadian mar- itime companies.

MGI International

MGI International, a supplier of marine safety equipment to the

North American market, recently obtained a contract to provide the

Liferaft Racking Systems for the two new cruise ships being built at

Meyer Weft in Germany for Star

Cruise.

On the heels of this newly acquired contract, MGI also announced the fall opening of a new office in the Netherlands. Due to stricter regulations for RoRo passenger ships, MGI hopes to expand its marine safety opera- tions into the European market.

Davie Industries

Davie Industries, an interna- tional engineering, infrastructure company, offers engineering and manufacturing, construction, installation, repair and quality assurance services for a wide range of ships as well as for the construction of heavy industrial and offshore fabrications. Davie, with operations in North America,

Europe, and Asia, is currently repositioning itself in the interna- tional market as builders of tankers and bulk carriers in the 20,000-70,000 dwt range, contain- er vessels in the 1,500-2,500 TEU size range, and semi-submersible and jack-up type drilling plat- forms.

Harbour & Marine Engineering's Mooring equipment for Chevron's Hibernia project.

Stork Canada Inc.

Stork Canada Inc. designs and supplies Marine HVAC and refrig- eration systems and equipment and has many recent successful projects including 12 Canadian

Patrol Frigates, a patrol vessel for the country of Mauritius, a ferry and several Z-drive tugs.

Currently on contract are 12 multi- purpose coastal defense vessels, 12 125-ton screw chillers, passenger and catamaran fast ferries, diving support vessels and tugs. Making a debut on Stork's product line are fire dampers tested to the latest

IMO and SOLAS standards. New to Stork's staff is Ed Bergeron, for- mer sales manager of Carrier

Transicold's Gulf Coast office, now representing Stork out of New

Orleans.

DBC Marine Safety Systems

DBC Marine Safety Systems, a division of Dunlop Beaufort

Canada, and World Fame Shipping

Ltd. (WFS), a division of Hong

Kong Ferry (Holdings) Co. Ltd. have entered into an agreement whereby WFS will be the official representative to exclusively mar- ket and service DBC's Escape Slide

System (ESS) to mainland China,

Macau, Taiwan, Singapore and

Hong Kong. "We at DBC Marine Safety are very pleased to be associated with one of Asia's largest ferry owners and marine trading groups," said

Dell Haylock, Global Marketing

Director. DBC Marine also manu- factures Marine Evacuation

Chutes and is currently working on reversible liferafts to meet

IMO/SOLAS regulations for RoRo ferries.

The new rafts will be available in 50 and 150 person sizes as well as 25 person davit mounted sys- tems and will feature a patent • i Hi 1 ;•», - !K:>jIS ; '>: • i' i >:t

Offshore Systems' ECPINS has independent control for scale, gain and clutter without affecting the source radar.

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