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Mercy Ships Aims To Serve On

Think of them as a floating hospital if you may - but the U.K.-based Mercy

Ships is designed to be the world's answer to effective crisis response at sea. The international Christian human- itarian organization deploys ocean- going vessels as hospitals and relief and development vehicles with a goal it hopes to reach by 2005 of serving one million people. Believed to be one of

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Our DPA system comes with a promise! We guarantee its electronic components for the lifetime of your system. That includes all circuitry as well as the data collection boards housed in the host PC.

The same electronics allow you to monitor and analyze multiple types and an unlimited number of engines—for all two-stroke engines, as well as four-stroke medium-speed engines up to 1,500 rpm. Higher-speed on request.

Flexibility plus reliability adds up to practical value.

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Handling Equipment

JSC, an affiliated enterprise of the Sea

Port of St. Petersburg, has purchased various equipment such as lift trucks and gantry cranes for optimizing of han- dling conditions of ferrous and non-fer- rous metal and paper, all of which are traditional items of Russian export.

Ameron Introduces Pre-Con- struction Primer

Ameron Coatings introduced a revolu- tionary waterborne inorganic pre-con- struction primer - DSP2. Pioneering the development of the original inorganic zinc silicate coatings presented under the Dimetcote® name more than 50 years ago, DSP2 combines a unique blend of metal silicates and zirconium compounds - both of which improve the water resistance and lower weld porosi- ty in comparison with other pre-con- struction primers.

Compatible with many of Ameron's existing coating systems; DSP2 also offers corrosion protection and enhanced weldability throughout the construction process.

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Christian charity in the U.K. - a dona- tion of $6.4 million was recently grant- ed to the organization for the purchase of another vessel for its good Samaritan fleet. This good-will gesture offered by

Ann Gloag, executive director of Stage- coach Holdings pic, will go toward

Mercy Ships' purchase of Dronning

Ingrid -a 16,071-grt Scaridlines train and car ferry. Constructed in 1980, the vessel will travel from Denmark with a small Mercy Ships' crew, followed by a two-year alteration project, transform- ing Ingrid into a Hospital/Relief &

Development mercy ship. Upon its readiness to float-out, the vessel will provide care for those less fortunate through free medical care, community development projects and relief aid to developing African nations who are struggling. The group, which currently owns and operates three other vessels,

Anastasis, Caribbean Mercy and Island

Mercy, holds a volunteer staff of more than 700 long term.

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