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Mr. Rice.

Mr. Rice said the sale of Sun

Viking did not indicate his compa- ny's desire to move away from the

Asian cruising market. "There's a lot more at stake than the tactical economic environment of 1998," commented Mr. Rice, adding that

Royal Caribbean would continue to look to Asia with an eye on long- term, strategic initiatives.

While the construction of the

Eagle class continues this year,

Royal Caribbean's profits will be boosted with the debut of Vision of the Seas in the spring, which will join Celebrity's late-1997 release

Mercury. "Mercury has started its life off with a bang," said Celebrity

President Richard Sasso.

Life with Royal Caribbean seems to agree with him. "It's a challenge when you're merging a lot of back-

Enthantment of the Seas (Continued from page 38) 6.6 kV main bus bars.

Passenger features of this new vessel include an 870-seat movie theater, six bars and lounges, a casino and a 1,171-seat dining room. KMY has equipped

Enchantment of the Seas with the latest in interactive televisions that allow passengers to view pho- tos, read books from the ship's library, rent a movie, play video poker and purchase goods from the ship's gift shop.

After trial runs off the coast of

Great Britain, Enchantment of the

Seas will first officially embark across the Atlantic to New

England to familiarize its crew with its new and complex naviga- tional technologies before setting sail on the warmer waters of the

Caribbean, out of its home port of

Miami.

The vessel comes equipped with three satellite communications and navigation systems, three radars, three compasses, three raster scan ARPA radars, three navigators, and a Doppler log with longitudinal and transversal speed indications. There is also a 5,000 point monitoring system installed in the bridge center to watch over, maintain and alert the crew if problems should occur in any unmanned spaces of the ship, such as the engine room. door operations. Every time you do something comprehensive, it requires more work," said Mr.

Sasso. Mr. Sasso faces one of the more daunting industry challenges in 1998, as Celebrity works to keeps its brand name out front.

However, the Celebrity president said that his company is ahead of its goals, and to expect "exciting news in the first quarter." "We won't change much for '98, but you'll hear a lot of announcements for what we're going to do in the next three years," said Mr. Sasso, who agreed that certain companies are poised to become more global in 1998. linking ports, coasts and continents by passenger ships and ferries

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