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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (Continued from page 31)

GN Comtext Aims to Defuse

Millennium Bomb

Global communications service provider GN Comtext is currently devising a strategy aimed at pre- empting the complications which will be encountered by the IT industry by the "Millennium

Bomb."

The company's Year 2000 project is designed to ensure compliance by all third-party suppliers of equipment, systems and services.

In this way, the anticipated prob- lems — inherent in the IT indus- try's use of only two digits to indi- cate year dates — will be resolved before they are able to have an adverse impact on the industry.

For more information on GN Comtext

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Autoship Offers

Ship Loading And

Stability Software

Available from Autoship is the

Autoload ship loading and stabil- ity software.

Autoload addresses three main areas for ship cargo planning: making stowage planning faster and easier than manual meth- ods; providing accurate stability calculation and monitoring capa- bilities; and integrating with the carrier's own information sys- tems platform.

Autoload handles a ship's entire voyage, and allows users to move back and forth between ports, stowing cargo at any port while controlling over-stowage and ship's hydrostatics.

Autoload uses an Autoship hydrostatics "engine," a module which produces output approved by the Norwegian Maritime

Directorate and accepted by

DNV, ABS and the U.S. and

Canadian Coast Guards.

The report engine generates graphs which can be exported to word processing and spread- sheet programs, calculating force, bending moment and hog and sag conditions.

The Autoload systems permits complete manipulations of stowage plans to take into account hydrostatics limitations such as IMO requirements.

For more information on Autoship

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