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Appoints Westgas7 Markussen

Norway Head

French ship classification society ireau Veritas appointed Bjorn arkussen as its chief executive for jrway. Markussen has more than 30 ;ars' experience in the shipping industry, iost recently as president of Westgas AS in ergen and before that as senior vice-pres- lent and managing director of Norwegian ias Carriers AS in Oslo, BV said. BV has ecently doubled its network of surveyors n Norway in response to rising demand for classification from the Norwegian shipown- ing market. Mr. Markussen is also cur- rently a board member of the Norwegian

Ship Research Institute and a member of the coordinating research committee of the

Norwegian Shipowners Association.

U.K. To Pilot ?\rs\ Full

Digital Navigation Charts

The first digital navigation chart service to give comprehensive coverage of interna- tional shipping routes is to be launched as a pilot operation early next year, the U.K.

Hydrographic Office said. The Admiralty

Digital Chart Service will be offered to deep-sea vessels fitted with equipment capable of displaying digitally developed navigational charts and scanned versions of conventional charts.

Digital charts, known as Vector charts, and their weekly updates will be provided free over the 12 month duration of the pilot operation, the Hydrographic Office said.

Initially, only a limited range of vector charts will be available but the

Hydrographic Office said the number will rise rapidly over the year. The

Hydrographic Office covers most of the world with its range of 2,700 scanned charts, known as raster charts. The IMO recently gave a go-ahead for the dual elec- tronic use of digital and scanned charts. A full commercial sales service for the vector charts is planned to start in 2000, the

Hydrographic Office said.

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Navigation Co. Inc., its ocean transporta- tion subsidiary. Doane will remain presi- dent and CEO, and a member of the board, of A&B-Hawaii, Inc. (ABHI), A&B's proper- ty management and development, and food products subsidiary. Doane joined ABHI as executive vice president and COO in 1991.

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