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New Seaway Administrator

Sworn In

Albert S. Jacquez has been sworn in as the eighth administra- tor of the Saint Lawrence Seaway

Development Corp. (SLSDC). Mr.

Jacquez succeeds Gail C.

McDonald, who resigned as the

SLSDC administrator in April 1997.

South Seas Steamship Gains

Canadian Representative

Greer Shipping Ltd.'s

Vancouver office is now serving as

Western Canadian agency repre- sentative for South Seas

Steamship Line (SSS). South Seas was recently purchased by

Hamburg Slid/Columbus Line. to UNI EN ISO 9001:1994 stan- dards by RINA, the Italian

Register of Shipping.

STCW Team Chartered

RADM Robert C. North, the

Assistant Commandant for Marine

Safety and Environmental

Protection, has chartered an

STCW Implementation Focus and

Coordination Team to monitor the progress of an coordinate efforts to implement the provisions of the

International Convention on

Standards for Training,

Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended in 1995 (STCW Convention).

The team will develop a coordi- nation plan which will explain how the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) will monitor and coordinate the steps being taken in the U.S. through

Swedish AIS Transponders

Delivered To MPA Singapore

GP&C Sweden AB has been awarded a contract for a pilot installation of AIS transponders from the Singaporean main con- tractor Brown Automation &

Consulting Engineering. The end customer, Marine and Port

Authority of Singapore (MPA), will introduce AIS transponders in

Singapore waters based on the

STDMA technology.

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AIMU Chairman Elected

James A. Zrebiec, chairman of

International Marine

Underwriters, a member of the

CGU Insurance Group, was elect- ed chairman of the Board of

Directors of the American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU).

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NASSCO Completes

Drydock Extension

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company (NASSCO) has complet- ed the 200-ft. (61-m) extension to its floating drydock. The $20 mil-

Gdynia SA (with options expected).

The six-cylinder engines will each have a maximum continuous out- put of 17,640 kW at 94 rpm for a service speed of 18 knots. They will be built under license by H.

Cegielski of Poznan. The ships are due for delivery in June and

December 2000. Further projects involving the RTA68T are under discussion in East Asia including standard Suezmax and Capesize vessels for which the RTA68T is designed to be well suited.

Circle 66 on Reader Service Card lion project expanded the drydock to a length of 785 ft. (239 m), which will allow it to accomodate larger ships. The extension was a requirement for starting work on a $490 million contract for the U.S.

Navy.

De Poli Shipyards Earns ISO

Certificate

De Poli S.p.A. has been certified

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