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Fugro To Supply GDPS Service

Fugro SeaSTAR (U.K.) has been granted orders to provide differential

GPS services and systems for two new 109,000-grt vessels being constructed for Princess Cruises. Equipped to carry 3,300-passengers, hull numbers 6050 and 6051 are currently being built at the

Fincantieri yard in Monfalcone, Italy, and are scheduled for delivery in April 2001 and January 2002. SeaSTAR is a marine DGPS subscription service that transmits continuous real-time DGPS correction data worldwide via satellite.

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GDHS Launches Friobox

Express

Dubbed as the world's new way to "keep the temperature controlled" for perishable goods in transit, GDHS has launched Friobox Express — the world's only flat packed temperature control unit. In development for approx- imately three years, Friobox Express is comprised of revolutionary flat packed, environmentally friendly, temperature control boxes for the transportation of chilled or frozen products.

The product has been stringently test- ed by the prestigious IBMB institute in

Germany, to ensure that it performs to

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Friobox Express offers unique features to all those involved in the shipment of temperature sensitive products.

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Fishers Reaches Breakthrough

In Side Scan Sonars

J.W. Fishers Mfg., specialists in high tech underwater search equipment, are now offering a computer hardware/soft- ware package for their side scan sonar systems. The sonars transmit a sonar beam from transducers mounted on each side of the towfish. The sonar beams then sweep under the water's sur- face, reflecting any objects situated there. Sonar beam transmission frequen- cy determines the range and resolution — low frequency giving longer ranges — high frequency offering higher reso- lution.

The new computer hardware and soft- ware offered by Fishers lets their side scan systems output to both a high reso- lution 17-in. wide thermal printer, as well as a computer — providing the best of both worlds. The computer system then gives the side scan operator a vari- ety of options for displaying and enhancing the sonar image.

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Chang And Bray Receive 1999 Connie Awards

The 1999 Containerization & Inter- modal Institute's Connie Awards were presented to Evergreen Group chair- man, Dr. Yung-fa Chang and J. Robert

Bray, executive director or the Virginia

Port Authority at an industry-wide lun- cheon at the Marriott World Trade Cen- ter in New York.

Bureau Veritas Acquires UIL

And Neptunus

Bureau Veritas (BV), has agreed to the acquisition of Unicon International and

Neptunus, the San Francisco-headquar- tered groups, which specialize in inter- modal equipment and cargo manage- ment services for the International transportation and logistics industries.

This will allow BV to broaden its client base and its service offering to the industry.

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