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and flexible provider of high quality steel fabrication products to a variety of industrial customers. With access to the U.S. Great Lakes, they are able to reach customers throughout the Midwest andNortheast regions of the United States and Canada providing fully integrated and outfitted steel platework assemblies and modules ready to install at their in-dustrial sites. BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards has facilities located in Mo- bile, Alabama and Jacksonville, Florida and has a long tradition of high-qualityproduction performing naval and com- mercial ship construction, moderniza-tion and repair. Samson: 12th Patent for MLX Rope Samson was awarded U .S. Patent No. 8,109,072 for the development of the technology to blend high moduluspolypropylene (HMPP) with high mod- ulus polyethylene (HMPE) together in fiber rope products. This is the first time HMPP has been used in the cordage in-dustry. Samsons MLX provides higher performance characteristics than ropesmade with traditional fibers such as nylon and polyester, but it is less costly than a rope made of 100% HMPE. For product specification. www.SamsonRope.com Transas Launches Pay-as-you-Sail? Transas Marine launches its Pay As You Sail chart solution for (S)ENC. Transas received approval for the Pay- As-You-Sail service by PRIMAR and IC-ENC after sea trials and verification by DNV. Traditionally the navigator has to select and purchase charts prior toeach voyage using what is commonly called pre-licensing method. With Transas PAYS solution the vessel will have a license and access to install, view and pre-plan using official (S)ENCs where the necessary PAYS permissions have been obtained without additional cost. Whats unique with Transas Pay As You Sail? solution is that recording and reporting of charts used is donewith extraction from Transas Navi- Sailor 4000 ECDIS logbook. Vessels only pay for charts actually used fornavigation monitoring. www.transas.com/PAYS SOMEC Invests in Ecochlor Ecochlor has completed a $4.1 mil-lion equity financing to support its growth into the growing ballast water treatment market. Investors participat- ing in the financing included Sojitz Ma- rine & Engineering Corporation, theshipping subsidiary of the Japanesetrading company, Sojitz Corporation, and a number of individual investors. Sojitz invested $1.8 million. Since its formation in 2001, Ecochlor has raisedmore than $12m in equity. MCO: Order for Six Sets of FPSO On-board Compressor Package Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Com- pressor Corporation (MCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order for six compressor packages to beinstalled on a floating production, stor- age & offloading system (FPSO), which Tupi BV plans to operate in the area of BM-S-11 at Brazil's coast. MSG Appointed by Danelec Marine MSG MarineServe GmbH, one of Hamburgs leading training companies, has been appointed as official training agent by Danelec Marine to provide ECDIS training services locally andworldwide. 88Maritime Reporter & Engineering News NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES