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LR Offers New Safety

Workshop

Lloyd's Register (LR) will hold a workshop on the new Control of

Major Accident Hazards

Regulations (COMAH) on

Wednesday, February 3, 1999 at the Birchwood Conference Center,

Warrington. The one-day work- shop is aimed at those in the chem- ical industry responsible for com- pliance with the new legislation.

Topics will include emergency planning and environmental issues. For more details, contact

Dr. Colin Sherrard at tel: +44 1925 830176; fax: +44 1925 830177. $72.6 Slated For Buoy

Tenders In 1999

Congressman Jay Johnson has reported that $72.6 million was included in the FY 99 budget for the acquisition of two WLB

Class Buoy Tenders. This is in addition to the two tenders award- ed to Marinette Marine in

September. Congressman Johnson is a member of the House

Transportation Subcommittee of the U. S. Coast Guard. There remain seven additional tenders left to be funded by Congress.

Marinette Marine expects the

USCG to exercise the option to build these two cutters in January of 1999, with construction to begin in late 1999.

Nautronix Awarded DP

Contract

Nautronix has been awarded a contract from Harland & Wolff to provide Dynamic Positioning

Systems for Global Marine

Drilling's new generation ultra deepwater drillships.

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Transas "Goes For" Iridium

November 1, 1998 is the pro- posed date for the commercial exploitation of the Iridium project.

The new global mobile communica- tion system Iridium has proved to be tailor-made for the conditions onboard ship and extends greatly the possibilities of modern mar- itime communication.

Transas, as a leader in maritime t software and communications markets, has always been active in the most innovative projects and technologies. Transas is planning to offer Iridium-provided services to its numerous marine customers.

The long-standing business rela- tionship between Transas and S.P.

Radio A/S from Denmark will be

December, 1998 61 an advantage in fulfillment of these plans. S.P. Radio's parent company, EuroCom Industries A/S (ECI) has as the first company in the world concluded a license and supplier agreement with Motorola

Inc. This means that Transas will distribute the maritime satellite telephones developed and pro- duced by S.P. Radio. There are cur- rently two versions of S.P. Radio's

Iridium equipment: Sailor Iridium

Single Channel SC4400, and

Sailor Iridium Multi-channel

MC4000.

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