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the chart plotter. A split-screen option allows the user to have two smaller screens side-by-side, per- haps showing the route plan on one and the 3-D steering aid on the other. Other features include

Electronic Bearing Lines (EBL),

Variable Range Marker (VRM),

Head-up, North-up, Course-up, waypoint arrival/cross track error alarm, and 100 own ship's tracks.

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New Technology Unveiled

At Port Weller

In mid-November, Canadian

Shipbuilding & Engineering (CS&E) unveiled a $6 million investment in new, high-technolo- gy robotic equipment recently installed at its Port Weller Dry

Docks facility. The new equipment includes a plasma-arc cutting machine, a robotic profile cutting line, a robotic welding line, and a semi-automatic panel production line.

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BV Awards First VeriSTAR

Machinery Notations

Bureau Veritas has awarded the first certificates under its new risk-based classification system,

VeriSTAR Machinery. Denmark's

Elite Shipping A/S and France's

SOCATRA were presented with certificates for ships certified with the new notation. VeriSTAR

Machinery is a risk-based system which integrates the owner's planned maintenance system with classification. Risk analyses are performed on the planned mainte- nance system to establish an acceptable risk level. The new sys- tem was launched in November in

London. VeriSTAR Machinery has been tested in service on several different ships, and is designed to achieve more cost-effective opera- tion and classification.

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BF Goodrich Merging With

Coltec Industries

BF Goodrich and Coltec

Industries have announced plans to merge. Under the terms of a definitive agreement approved by the boards of both companies,

Coltec shareholders will receive .56 shares of BF Goodrich common stock for each Coltec common share. Based on BF Goodrich's closing price of $35.94 on Nov. 20, 1998, the transaction is currently valued at $20.13 per Coltec share, or a total of approximately $2.2 bil- lion, including the assumption of

Coltec debt. The companies expect to achieve minimum annual cost savings of approximately $60 mil- lion by 2001, with significant sav- ings beginning in 1999. The trans- action is expected to be completed by as early as spring 1999, and is subject to approval by sharehold- ers of both companies, applicable regulatory authorities, and other customary conditions.

T&T Introduces GMDSS

Approved Inmarsat-C

Antenna

Thrane & Thrane A/S (T&T) now offers a new GMDSS approved Inmarsat-C antenna, the

TT-3005M Capsat Maritime

Antenna. This new antenna will replace the existing T&T maritime

Inmarsat-C antennas over time.

The lightweight, compact antenna is omni-directional and is designed to offer trouble-free operation down to -15 degrees of elevation.

TT-3005M can handle up to 32kB message size transmission — allowing pictures, drawings and other types of graphic files to be transmitted.

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