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Grimaldi-Naples Receives

GM Award

Grimaldi Group has been elected

General Motors' supplier of the year due to its overall outcome as logistics provider. The award was granted during a ceremony held Saturday April 3. at the

Hilton Hotel in Prague. Ho Andersson.

GM's Worldwide Purchasing Production

Control and Logistics Vice President said "Grimaldi- Naples Group repre- sents the type of company with which we want to grow along our journey towards being the best in the world.

Grimaldi Group's service level and working method are able to put up with

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GM's priorities. The company is a model for all of our suppliers," he said.

Group Grimaldi Naples has recently invested more than $1.3 billion in its fleet modernization plan, giving it 50 ships, with an average age of four years.

During 2003. Grimaldi Group transport- ed 1.5 billion cars and other rolling units. 400,000 containers and trailers.

Senesco Lands Contract

Senesco Marine signed a contract to build a 100,000-barrel double-hulled liquid fuel barge for Reinauer

Transportation. The new barge will be 403.3 ft. long, 74 ft. wide with side depths of 26 ft., 6 in. At 95 percent capacity, the barge will hold 100,000 barrels. The double-hulled barge will add to Reinauer's continuing double- hulled building program to comply with the Oil Pollution Act.

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Furuno Supplies 300 AIS

Units to Tidewater

Furuno won a contract to supply more than 300 of its FA 100 Automatic

Identification Systems (AIS) to

Tidewater Marine, Inc., the world's largest offshore service company. The

FA 100 is designed for simplified instal- lations and low cost maintenance. A typ- ical system configuration requires only the Furuno compact MKD, junction box, standard GPS antenna and an AIS-

VHF antenna to complete the installa- tion.

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Wynn Chosen for Ferry

Austal Ships ordered a complete inte- grated wiper and control system from

Wynn Marine for a new 126m multi-hull cargo/passenger/vehicle ferry, which is currently in production for Spanish operator Fred. Olsen, SA. The system is based on the M80 wiper from Wynn

Marine's Coastal Range but will also include a Type C wiper system and a

Series 3000 network control system.

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Globalstar To Enhance

Coverage

Globalstar has begun engineering and development work aimed at providing enhanced service coverage and system capacity for its customers in the

Caribbean and southeastern U.S. regions. When completed, this work should lead to improved call connectivi- ty and reliability, as well as a greater capability to handle anticipated call traf- fic in this area for years to come.

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