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Napa Oy Opens Office

In Japan

Finland's Napa Oy has opened a Rep- resentation Office in Kobe, Japan, to strengthen the company's presence in the region. Naoki Mizutani has been appointed manager of the Representa- tion Office in Japan. The company is committed to playing a key role in

Southeast Asia, particularly on the

Japanese, Korean and Chinese markets.

The Representation Office in Japan is the first in a series of local representa- tions the company envisages in the future, in response to expansion of its customer base in Southeast Asia. Napa

Oy already has an agent in Korea, name- ly Global Maritime Engineering. As to marketing on the Chinese market, the company has co-operation with Net-

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The newly established Representation

Office in Japan focuses on promoting the NAPA system through support to various marketing efforts in Japan, and on providing training and technical sup- port services locally for present and future users of the NAPA system.

The most recent new NAPA customers in Japan and China include Hitachi

Zosen Corp., Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy

Industries, Oshima Shipbuilding,

Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. and

Dalian Shipyard.

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Westwood Shipping, Autoship

Sign Deal

Autoship Systems Corp. signed with

Westwood Shipping Lines to develop a

Stowage Planning System (SPS) for seven new break bulk/container vessels.

Autoship's SPS system is designed to improve the efficiency and flexibility of both stowage planning and cargo track- ing operations. Fully integrated into

Westwood Shipping Lines' global Busi- ness System, the software will equip each of the seven new vessels as they are delivered from Gdynia Shipyard,

Poland, from March 2002 to September 2003.

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Tribon Solutions Launches New

Functionality

Tribon Solutions launched auction functionality of surplus material for shipyards on tribon.com. The new ser- vice enables all shipyards subscribing to tribon.com to sell and buy surplus mate- rial between each other in an easy and efficient manner. The Belfast based

Shipyard Harland and Wolff, is already on line for the new service and has initi- ated an auction of surplus material. "The tool will provide speedy and effective access to technical information from the global supplier base and will integrate into our hull and outfitting design oper- ations," said David Melville, Procure- ment Manager of Harland and Wolff

Heavy Industries. "This in turn, will seamlessly flow into our procurement process, generating both time and cost savings, combined to increase the over- all efficiency and competitiveness of our operations." So far 110 shipyards and 130 suppliers have signed up for tri- bon.com.

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