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The biggest cruise lines, by market cap- italization, as of 11/12/99

Co Price Shares

Out(mm)

Mkt. Cap ($nim)

CCL $46.50 616.9 $28,686

RCL $51.69 195.1 $10,084

P&O* $29.83 333.5 $9,947

Star $9.00 624.5 $5.62

NCL $2.90 257.3 $746

AMCV $24.69 19.6 $484

ROCLF $3.94 14 $55 convert analog signals to digital are located below deck.

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MSC Europe Experiencing

Steady Growth Stream

MSC (Europe) Ltd., the European sub- sidiary of Maritime Services Corpora- tion, Hood River, Ore. is currently han- dling various projects throughout the

U.K. and Europe, mainly a $2 million conversion of a fast ferry into a casino vessel for Israeli-based Athissa Ship- ping. MSC provided ship units, project management and fitters for installation of duty free and other shops onboard

Fred Olsen's MV Black Watch. The company also installed galley modifica- tions and waste handling equipment onboard Arcalia Shipping's Princess

Danae at A&P Falmouth.

The company has further extended its expansion capabilities with new offices

Source: Lazard Freres' 1999 "Cruisin'

Miami" Fieldtrip * Parent company of Princess Cruises. * Star Cruise Lines is listed on the Sin- gapore and Luxembourg exchanges.

Litton Marine Systems

Supplies IBS Order

Litton Marine Systems will supply integrated bridge systems (IBS) for two new cruise ships for Royal Caribbean

International (RCI).

The two vessels are currently under construction at Meyer Werft Shipyard in

Papenburg. Radiance of the Seas, will be delivered in early 2001, with the second vessel scheduled to arrive during the second half of 2002.

In accordance with Royal Caribbean's two-bridge concept, each vessel will house a completely redundant package comprised of two independent Vision 2100 integrated bridge systems. The total package will include interswitched

BridgeMaster E S-band and X-band radars, a Sperry Marine Voyage Man- agement System (VMS) with ECDIS and a docking system.

Litton also supplied the IBS installa- tions for RCI's Eagle-class ships, the first being Voyager of the Seas delivered late last year.

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Voyager Of The Seas Goes Live

Maritime Telecommunications Net- work (MTN), a subsidiary of ATC Tele- ports of Alexandria, Va. set sail from

Finland to the port of Miami on the world's largest cruise ship — Voyager of the Seas.

MTN has equipped Voyager with full redundancy services including dual antennas and two MPEG-2 Digital

Video units. Each antenna on the 142,000-ton vessel will have 12 lines for multiple voice and data capabilities. In preparation for Voyager's live broadcast,

MTN modified one of the existing com- munications antennas for full motion video uplink. In addition, two flyaway video/audio systems, which are used to

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