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E-Commerce • Software Solutions

OTAL To Invest $5 million in New IT System was based on the company's Galaxy-class 6000 Series Director at the core and McDATA's 3000 Series 16 and 32 port Fabric Switches at the edge.

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The co-operation will .... , ,, From left, John Murray, Chief prov.de the members of Execut|ye Qf the Soc|ety Qf Mar. the Society of Maritime jtime Industries, and Ola Hans-

Solutions with a frame- son, sales director Tribon Solu- work of activities to fur- tl0ns ther strengthen their communication with and presence at shipyards world- wide by participating in Tribon.com.

Tribon.com is an Internet based service for the ship- building industry linking together shipyards, maritime equipment suppliers and ship owners in a comprehen- sive global network. The site contains 3-D models; design information, pictures, technical specifications and commercial information enabling design integra- tion supplemented by full e-commerce functionality.

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United Arab Shipping Company

Joins INTTRA

INTTRA, the leading provider of B2B ocean freight services, announced that United Arab Shipping Com- pany (UASC) has selected INTTRA as its portal for the management of ocean-going container shipping. The national line of the Arabian Gulf states, UASC (www.uasc.com.kw) is the twelfth carrier to join INT-

TRA's non-exclusive network, extending INTTRA's reach beyond 40 percent of world container capacity.

UASC provides direct liner services between the Ara- bian Gulf and main ports in Europe, U.S. East Coast,

Indian sub-continent, and a full range of ports in Asia.

The addition of UASC to INTTRA connects two of the portal's traditionally strongest areas - Asia and Europe — and provides customers with the capability to view both regional and global shipments from one portal.

Digitrace Certified In The Netherlands

Netherlands Shipping Inspectorate has given its accreditation to Digitrace, a service of Notice to

Mariners via e-mail. This accreditation acknowledges

Digitrace as the equivalent of the official paper NTM (from e.g. British Admiralty), thus satisfying the car- riage requirement for Notices to Mariners under Regu- lation 20 of Chapter V of SOLAS. Several other flag states have already given similar accreditations.

The shipping inspectorate has further accredited The

Digital Lists of Lights, which is another service devel- oped by Marine Press of Canada, which is an innova- tive chart agent with its own software development including Digitrace, Digital List of Lights and the

Chart Catalog.

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Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

The Bollore Maritime Division (BMD) is investing $5 million in a new software management system called iQ-Ship. As a group company OT Africa Line (OTAL) will benefit from this system, which is designed to enhance the quality of service provided to its customers worldwide.

Qiva Inc, a leading producer of supply chain logistics and global transportation management systems, has developed the system. iQ-Ship will enable OTAL to simplify and automate several internal processes, which will in turn, reduce the time and costs required to execute OTAL's com-

ACBL To Use Originals Online

American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL) will use

Originals Online to enhance the exchange of barge freight commercial documents with its customers. The system uses eOriginal technology, providing a secure, web-driven process for initiating, signing, endorsing, verifying and storing electronic barge freight transac- tion documents. According to ACBL's senior v.p

James F. Farley, Original Online is designed to protect the security of electronically exchanged certified and signed original trade documents.

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During 2002, OTAL plans to deploy the application in several phases beginning with line activities. This is scheduled to be complete by spring/early summer and will then be extended to cover the

European agency network, the target completion date being the end of 2002. iQ-ship will then be implemented throughout OTAL's Asian and African networks during 2003.

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McDATA Enterprise Storage Area Network

To Support Major Business

McDATA Corporation announced that Naptheon

Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Newport News

Shipbuilding (NNS), has selected McDATA to deliver a centralized easy to manage and highly available stor- age area network (SAN) solution to address the explo- sion of data growth the company has experienced. The

McDATA solution lowers Naptheon's overall IT costs and ensures business continuance by delivering relia- bility and simplified management of Naptheon's sensi- tive data.

The solution McDATA designed for Naptheon/NNS

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SMI, Tribon Create Team

The Society of Mar- itime Industries, the umbrella organization of equipment and services in all areas of the mar- itime industry in United

Kingdom and Tribon

Solutions announced a