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the implementation period to give the STCW Convention full and complete effect. The team's leader is Capt. Bob Skewes.

Autoship Complete Systems

Installed

Autoship Systems Corporation has installed two complete systems of The AutoSHIP Works at

Guangzhou Marine Engineering of

China and Estalerios Sao Jacinto of Portugal. The complete package consists of the full suite of CAD marine design programs, including

Autoship, Autohydro, Autopower,

Autobuild and Autoplate — provid- ing the shipyards with an integrat- ed suite of design programs for their naval architecture depart- ments.

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SNAME Appoints Executive

Director

Phillip B. Kimball has been appointed executive director of the

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers (SNAME). Mr.

Kimball has been a member of

SNAME for 31 years, serving as volunteer chairman of the New

York Metropolitan Section, and as a member of the Ship Technical

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V.

Operations and National Planning

Committees.

New Container Vessels

Introduced

Turkish Cargo Line has char- tered two full container vessels for its Turkey express container ser- vice from the East Coast to the

Mediterranean. The ships, the MTV

Izzet Incekara and M/V

Cumhuriyet 75, are recently built cellular vessels with a capacity of 860 TEUs per ship. The Turkish flag vessels, which were built in

Istanbul in 1996, will be deployed along with the M/V Bitlis to pro- vide sailings directly to Turkey.

Gibbs & Cox

Achieves ISO 9001

The Washington and New York offices of Gibbs & Cox, Inc. have been certified to ISO 9001:1994 —

Quality Systems-Model for Quality

Assurance in Design,

Development, Production,

Installation and Servicing — by

ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc.

GE Marine Engines

Appoints Manager

GE Marine Engines has appointed Read Tuddenham as manager of Marine Applications and Ship Integration. Mr.

Tuddenham will work on ship- board propulsion application development and evaluation for

GE's naval propulsion programs as well as initiatives underway for

GE's increased role in the cruise ship industry.

Virginia Companies

In Joint Venture

Fuji Trading (America) of

Newport News, Va. has announced the formation of a venture with

Bay Diesel Corp. of Chesapeake,

Va. to provide parts and service for

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) large bore (UE) series marine engines and (MET) tur- bochargers.

Whessoe Varec Supplying

Korean LNG Carriers

Whessoe Varec is supplying level gauging systems for two liq- uefied natural gas (LNG) carriers being built by Hyundai Heavy

Industries. The instrumentation — to be delivered to Hull 1156 at the start of 1999 and Hull 1157 in

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