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Hvide Marine Emerges From Chapter 11

Hvide Marine completed its exit financing arrangements and that its Plan of Reorganization has become effective, thereby marking the compa- ny's formal emergence from Chapter I 1. 98 days after its initial filing on September 8.

Alameda To Publish RFP

The City of Alameda. Calif, will publish a

Request for Proposal for the procurement of a new ferry for expansion of their successful Oakland.

Alameda. San Francisco service. A 26-knot 350- passenger ferry is required, and the expected RFP date is March 1. 2000 with a contract award date of

June 1, 2000.

MaK Buys Dieselmotorwerk Rostock

Mak Motoren GmbH signed a purchase contract for Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock on December 16.

Conversion of the two-stroke Rostock facility to four-stroke facility will take advantage of existing capacity rather than creating additional capacity in

Europe — thus eliminating any unnecessary eco- nomic burden for Europe.

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Bostik Selects Gulf Atlantic As Rep

Bostik, the international adhesives and sealants company, and manufacturer of a full line of maintenance products including

Never-Seez anti-seize and lubricating com- pounds, has entered a business relationship with Gulf Atlantic Marketing.

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Coffin Turbo Pump Acquires WWS

Coffin Turbo Pump, manufacturer of marine boiler feed pumps and turbines, has acquired the assets of World Water Systems

Inc. (WWS) of Irvine, Calif. The acquired company specializes in the design and man- ufacture of water treatment, purification and recycling systems.

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BV Classes First C02 Tanker

Bureau Veritas Netherlands, the Dutch subsidiary of classification society Bureau

Veritas, has classed the world's first C02 tanker newbuilding — the 1.600-dwt Coral

Carbonic, which is owned and operated by

Coral Shipping. The 1,250 cu. m. capacity tanker was designed by Conoship Interna- tional and constructed by Frisian Shipyard

Welgelgen.

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Bollinger Opens Engineering Office

Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., is scheduled to open a satellite marine engi- neering and naval architecture office in

Slidell, La. to accommodate increasing business, expanding product lines and planned new services. According to Scott

Theriot. Bollinger executive vice presi- dent/new construction, the new office will be managed by Jude McDonald, and will be linked to Bollinger's main engineering and design offices in Lockport via comput- ers on real-time basis. This will provide a seamless integration into the company's wide area network and Oracle-based Enter- prise Resource Planning (ERP).

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Seabulk Appoints New Directors

Seabulk Offshore has elected Gerald L.

Hoffman as its new managing director. For- merly. Hoffman was manager of mainte- nance and logistics at MSRC. The company also named William J. Merritt as its direc- tor of operations, crew boat department.