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People & Company News the ISO 9002 standard. Bureau Veritas

Quality International approved ISM cer- tification in September 2000. ISO 9002 certification was received from Bureau

Veritas Germany and Bureau Veritas

Switzerland late November 2000.

SOSA fleet of mainly large, anchor-han- dling tug/supply vessels supports the expanding oil and gas exploration activ- ities in the deepwater market off the coasts of Nigeria, Angola, Gabon, Equa- torial Guinea, Congo and Cameroon.

Chief Engineer Receives Trophy

The chief engineer, Charles W.

Brown of Marathon Fla., will receive the 2000 American Merchant Marine

Seamanship Trophy later this month for his skillful action in helping to bring his severely damaged vessel to safety after a violent Atlantic storm on the night of

Feb. 16, 1999. While he led his assistant engineers aboard SS Green Island,

Brown displayed cooled competence when the storm opened a gaping hole in the ship's hull.

New Executive Appointments

ATROCL

Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Inc, (ROCL), appointed George Stathopou- los to the position of acting chief execu- tive officer. Stathopoulos at the same time maintains responsibility for the company's worldwide marketing and sales efforts. The company also appoint- ed George Kassapis to the position of chief financial officer. The appointment of Stathopoulos to the top management post of the Company enables Dr. Stelios

Kiliaris, who has served as chief execu- tive officer since December 1999, to fully resume his position as managing director of the major shareholder, Louis

Cruise Lines Ltd. He remains on the

Board of ROCL and continues as a member of its executive committee.

Stathopoulos has been involved in the cruise industry for 24 years, having worked for much of his career in sales and marketing. He was appointed mar- keting and sales director for Festival

Cruises when the company first began operations in 1993. Subsequently, he joined Celebrity Cruises as European sales and marketing director in 1995, continuing in that position following the merger of Celebrity Cruises and Royal

Caribbean Cruise Line. Stathopoulos joined Royal Olympic Cruises as vice president for marketing and sales for

Europe in 1998, and was promoted to the position of vice president of market- ing and sales worldwide one year later.

Nobeltec Announces

New Software

Nobeltec Corp., a developer of marine software has announced the introduction of all-new, exclusive features in itslatest version of Visual Navigation Suite 6.0.

One feature, the 3-D Navigator, allows the boater to navigate in three dimen- sions around fishing hot spots, naviga- tion channels and harbor entrances. 3-D

Maps contain elevation data for land and ocean floor giving the navigator a realis- tic perspective. The U.S. database of passport 3-D maps is included on a CD

ROM inside each copy of the Visual

Navigation Suite and each region can be unlocked with a code purchased over the

Internet or through marine dealers everywhere. Nobeltec has also intro- duced the new Passport Global Data

Solutions brand and logo. Passport data is a host of new data products for the mariner including navigation charts, 3-

D Maps and onboard weather solutions.

Passport data interfaces with Nobeltec's top selling Visual Series electronic charting software, including Visual Nav- igation Suite.

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