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MariTEL Offers Total

Telecommunications Solution

MariTEL, "The Marine Telephone

Company," is now a one-stop shop for all marine telecommunications needs.

An official dealer of Inmarsat. Iridium.

MarineSat/LandSat. Globalstar satellite services, MariTEL offers commercial 8 operators a full suite of telecommunica- tions services including satellite and the new Marine Wireless VHF Radiotele- phone Network. In 2002. the company will offer commercial operators total land and sea telecommunication solu- tions that integrate MariTEL's wireless services with traditional land-based "wired" services. This includes domes- tic long distance calling, toll free call- ing, calling cards, prepaid calling cards, and customized telephone networks.

For example, vessel operation centers will be able to dial an office extension to reach a vessel, much like dialing an extension down the hall.

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Leica Marine Will Supply AIS

For BP Tankers

Leica Marine GPS has received orders from high-seas dealer Seacoast Elec- tronics, Jacksonville, Fla., to supply automatic identification systems (AIS) for three new tankers under construction for British Petroleum at the National

Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego. Calif.

Each of the vessels will be fitted with an integrated DGPS/AIS system meet- ing the International Maritime Organi- zation (IMO) carriage requirements for shipboard AIS. The AIS equipment will permit the ships to exchange vital iden- tification and navigation data automati- cally with other AlS-equipped ships and coastal stations via VHF radio channels.

The three 185,000 dwt tankers, which will measure 942 ft., are being built for

BP at NASSCO to transport oil from

Valdez, Ala., to refineries on the U.S.

West Coast. Scheduled for deliveries beginning in 2003, they are being fitted with the latest navigation technology to ensure safe operation in environmental- ly sensitive waters, and each has a design draft of 62 ft. (18.8 m) and oper- ates at a speed of 15.3 knots with cargo capacity of 1.3 million barrels of oil.

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Bollinger Promotes

Fanguy, McDonough

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., has promot- ed two senior department heads at its headquarters in Lockport, La. Dennis

Fanguy has been appointed vice presi- dent. Engineering; and Robert McDo- nough has been named vice president and general manager of Bollinger's New

Construction Division at Lockport.

During his tenure at Bollinger, Fanguy has been responsible for the design of 49 Island Class patrol boats for the U.S.

Coast Guard, design modifications in the last 12 of the series, the design of supply boats, lift boats a deck barge and 117-ft. (35.6-m) ocean-going tugs. He was also responsible for the entire design of the 13 U.S. Navy fast patrol boats. In McDonough's new role, he is not only managing new construction at

Lockport where all of the Coast Guard's boats are built, he also oversees materi- al control, maintenance and program management.

El Paso, Cal Dive Will Construct

Anadarko's Unit

El Paso Energy Partners, L.P. and Cal

Dive International, Inc. have signed a letter of intent to form a 50/50 venture to construct, install, and own a deepwater production hub platform and associated facilities primarily for Anadarko Petro- leum Corporation's Marco Polo field

Kawasaki

IN PURSUIT OF

MANOEUVERABILITY

Aspiring to provide excellent systems,

Kawasaki, with a century long experience, is continually researching and developing new propulsion systems.

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd. Phone:44-020-7588-5222 Fax:44-020-7588-533

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (Europe) B.V. Phone 31-20-644-6869-70 Fa* ^ 1-2C-C42-5725

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (USA) Inc. Phone 1-212-759-4950 Fax:1-212-759-6421

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