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specifically servicing the Gulf and

Pacific regions. Dean Chinnery will serve as the office's marine-sales finance manager and Robert F. Lowe was appointed new business manager.

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Superior-Lidgerwood-Mundy

Introduces New Capstans

Superior-

Lidgerwood-

Mundy Corp. has released it newest prod- uct, the Mil- lennium-2000

Capstans featuring the latest in high-per- formance right angle drives. Unlike most conventional worm gear Capstans, the Millennium-2000 is able to maintain a significantly high efficiency over a wide range of ratios, for the ability to reflect a greater pull for equal or less hp.

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Tesoro Set To Acquire BP's West

Coast Marine Fuel Operations

Tesoro Marine Services, the Houston- based subsidiary of Tesoro Petroleum

Corporation has agreed to purchase the

U.S. West Coast marine fuels operations of BP Marine, a division of BP Amoco.

The acquisition includes facilities in

Port Angeles, Seattle, Portland and Los

Angeles with total terminalling capacity figures at 605,000 barrels.

C-Seal Simulators

Initiates Unique Device

The C-Seal Simulators company has developed a device designed to change a typical PC. monitor, keyboard and mouse into one multi-function display unit. Named the OSIR (One Stroke:

Immediate Result), the product is cur- rently producing radar/ARPA simulators — the precise duplications of the bridge equipment. OSIR upgrades simulation performance, while concurrently lower- ing costs at an advantageous price.

Other products offered by C-Seal consist of full-scale radar/Arpa consoles for IBS simulation, desk-top radar/ARPA con- soles for classroom simulation and the

SMART simulator complete with built- in instructive program for total self- learning.

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Kockums Computers Systems

Is Sold

The Sixth Fund Board, an independent manager of general pension funds in

Sweden has acquired a member of the

Celsius Group — Kockums Computer

Systems. With an asset portfolio com- prised of stocks, bonds and derivatives listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange, including significant holding in heavy- hitting Swedish companies, the Fund's capital amounts to an estimated $1.6 bil- lion.

Kockums currently deploys design and information systems at more than 280 shipbuilders and design engineering offices worldwide. More notably is its

Tribon 4 system — an integrated design and information system developed specifically for the shipbuilding and off- shore industries.

Royal Caribbean Restructures

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., opera- tor of Royal Caribbean International and

Celebrity Cruises has named Bonnie S.

Biumi vice president and treasurer, and

Daniel J. Hanrahan has been designat- ed as senior vice president of marketing for Royal Caribbean International.

Biumi comes to Royal Caribbean from

Nee Corporation where she served as

CFO of the Miami-based NYSE equip- ment rental company. Hanrahan had pre- viously been with Polaroid Corporation as vice president and general manager. •F Willi VF • •••••••••WI1 lorn stem to stern

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June, 1999

Over the course of nearly 50 years, Yale Cordage has built a reputation as the industry leader in top-quality, specialty ropemak- ing - developing everything from halyards for America's Cup contenders to hydrophobic rope coatings for electro-mechanical cables.

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