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more effectively by responding faster to new sales opportunities with quotes based on a complete and accurate under- standing of total delivery costs.

Joe Fordney, Operations Manager,

Ocean and Air Transportation, said, "The growth we experienced over the past year had a negative impact on our response time, our staff was allocating more time to operational issues and less to quotations and we have been chal- lenged to correct this situation."

After evaluating other products, BOSS

International determined that Rate

Explorer was a solution that could cal- culate complete and accurate bottom- line costs that included all output arbi- traries, inlands and assessorials from their carrier's governing tariffs.

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LR Software Aids in

Compliance

Lloyd's Register Americas, Inc. can provide advanced software for structural design assessment for compliance with its Classification Rules. This includes both rule based and direct methods. The

Rules and Regulations, together with appropriate IMO legislation are avail- able on a searchable CD.

Technical details on the world fleet of ships above 100 GT and details of the associated shipowning arrangements and builders are available on a CD.

These products are also available over the web.

Follow the links to www.lr.org

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Resurgence Helps Keep

Machinery Efficient

The Wave Equipment Optimization

System is a machinery risk and reliabil- ity analysis software package developed by a team of reliability engineers and business managers at Resurgence

Software, Inc. This tool is designed to allow ship owners and operators to opti- mize the reliability and financial per- formance of their fleets by maximizing vessel uptime, minimizing maintenance costs and reducing risks of failures.

Intended benefits of the Wave system include reduced maintenance costs, increased safety and reliability, less unscheduled maintenance, and more effective prioritization and allocation of scarce staff resources.

The unique features of the Wave

Equipment Optimization System allow managers to: enhance fleet performance by analyzing the performance of vessel

October 2003 systems, equipment, and parts; track trends over time by calculating 17 equipment performance indicators (including MTBF and MTTR); reduce maintenance expenses by identifying chronic failures; use the Maintenance

Review Board module to get to the root cause of equipment problems; evaluate costs with Pareto reports; and use benchmarking features to compare equipment performance across the fleet and against the industry.

The Wave Equipment Optimization

System is distributed in conjunction with Lloyd's Register.

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Software Solutions

Rolfs Returns As

New IT Provider

John Rolfs, a founding director of shipping IT provider Dataworks, has returned to the maritime communica- tions and technology sector after a two- year absence with his new company,

Chipcraft. Rolfs left Dataworks in 2001 when it was acquired by Strategic

PROUDLY

SOUTH AFRICAN

R3.5 billion project. Make your move,

This is just one of the reasons why the Port of Ngqura will be a sound business investment. Being the deepest container terminal in Africa, as well as one of the most advanced in the world, it will enable us to accommodate the largest post

Panamax ships. The port will also boast state-of-the-art facilities that will compliment the other seven national ports with regards to additional volumes of commercial traffic, providing a variety of different cargo applications, from breakbulk and liquid bulk to container and conveyor services. Opening a gateway to the rest of Africa and the world that will bring unparalled local income and foreign investment to our shores. So now you know its capabilities, don't you think a business move to the

Port of Ngqura would be a wise decision? We think so. The Port of Ngqura, beyond our horizons, and yours.

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