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E-Commerce the generation of reports that can com- pare similar vessels in order to deter- mine proper usage of products onboard.

This allows for real-time access to data that might not be readily available to ship owners until the end of the month or worse still — the end of the year.

This permits corrective measures to be taken well in advance to avoid end-of- year budget overruns. Another feature of this reporting function is that Partner-

SHIP can download customer data to any spreadsheet type program. This enables the owner to perform efficient comparisons, internal reports, and other documents that ship owners require through the course of the year. As with all capabilities of PartnerSHIP, this downloading ability is user specific and only information related to the client's company can be accessed.

Robert Lee Gordon is the director of purchasing for Ocean Development

Company. Gordon is responsible for all project related purchasing of hotel, nau- tical, and engineering products for Pro- ject America, M/S Patriot, Columbia

Queen, and the Coastal Vessels.

Marinetalk.com ReLaunches

MarineTalk.com has just launched a new, user-friendly version of its popular web portal, offering improved content and navigation. Focusing on the techni- cal sector of the marine industry,

Marinetalk.com provides free listings of products, services, and business contacts on its portal, and to date the organization claims that there are more than 10,000 companies listed.

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BV In E-Commerce Push

Bureau Veritas reports that a group- wide move into e-commerce is expected to underpin a projected nine percent growth in revenues and 15 percent growth in profits for 2000. Chairman

Bernard Renard said "Growing by acquisitions is one part of our program.

The other is to grow organically by developing our e-commerce strategy.

Our industry sectors, global, flexible and diverse, are ideally suited to harnessing the power of the Internet, and BV has invested heavily in IT over the last few years to position itself for this move. "There are four main things we can do with the Internet. We can use it to make our business more efficient and to make us even more user friendly to clients. We can be a major information provider. We can use our IT knowledge to help com- panies build e-commerce solutions.

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Marex Grabs Hold Of

Maritime Market

Marex.com has expanded into the $500 billion global maritime industry through a newly formed entity, Marex

Maritime, which will pursue joint ven- tures and partnership opportunities with- in the global maritime market. The

Miami, Fla.-based company has retained

Merrill Lynch to serve as its financial advisor for the review and analysis of strategic initiatives, and is formally examining various strategic initiatives including alliances, partnerships and other relationships, both with maritime related e-commerce companies and major maritime industry participants.

Additionally, the company elected

Sara L. Wilkins as vice president of

Investor Relations and Corporate Com- munications. Wilkins has vast experi- ence in both the public and private sec- tors within investor relations.

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