View non-flash version
Sperry Plans Joint Venture With Chinese Company A delegation from China recently visited Sperry Marine in Charlottesville, Va. to draft a letter of intent between Sperry and Shanghai Marine Instrument Co. This was the planned next step in joint venture negotiations that Sperry Marine Chairman John F. Lehman initiated earlier this year in Beijing. The joint venture will permit Sperry to build on the company's recent commercial sales and manu- facturing progress and make avail- able the advanced quality and high technology products manufactured in Sperry Marine's Charlottesville plant in the expanding Chinese maritime navigation equipment market. For more information on Sperry Circle 60 on Reader Service Card British Maritime Technology Enters Technical Merge Agreement British Maritime Technology Ltd. (BMT) and the Defense Re- search Agency (DRA) entered a long-term agreement to merge and jointly operate their technical re- sources for the hydrodynamic mod- eling of ships, underwater vehicles, marine structures and other spe- cialized applications. The joint op- eration will include all hydrody- namic model making, measurement and analysis, will be centered on the DRA Haslar site at Gosport (Hants) and will be operated as the Haslar Hydrodynamic Test Center. Under the agreement, a com- bined specialist team will manage and develop the comprehensive hy- drodynamic testing facilities at DRA Haslar which will be supplemented by the relocation of hydrodynamic test equipment operated by BMT at Teddington. For more information on BMT Circle 66 on Reader Service Card ABS In Agreement With USCG On Passenger Vessels The American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) entered into an agree- ment of cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to facilitate satisfactory control verification ex- amination of foreign-flag passenger ships — ABS-class ships carrying more than 36 passengers — which intend to trade in U.S. territorial waters. "This is another in a long line of working arrangements between ABS and the USCG aimed at im- proving safety and administrative efficiency to the benefit of the ma- rine industry," said Robert Somerville, ABS president. Under the terms of this agree- ment, ABS will verify compliance with applicable USCG standards during the design, plan review, and inspection phases of foreign-flag passenger ship construction or con- version projects. ABS will act as a single point of contact for the ship- yard and owner while the USCG will maintain oversight. The direct line of communication and coopera- tive effort is designed to facilitate USCG acceptance. For more information from ABS Circle 64 on Reader Service Card Seaward Awarded $3.32 Million Contract To Operate, Maintain Air Force Vessels Seaward Services, Inc. was awarded a five-year, $3.32-million federal prime contract by the 325th Contracting Squadron of Tyndall Air Force Base to provide for the operation and maintenance of three 120-ft. (36.5-m) high speed missile retrievers and two 24-ft. (7.3-m) range clearance vessels. Seaward Services provides a variety of ma- rine, engineering and technical sup- port services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Newport, R.I.) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Chicago). For more information on Seaward Services Circle 63 on Reader Service Card Circle 202 on Reader Service Card Autoship3 Registered Application Developer NAVAL ARCHITECTURE SOFTWARE WITH THE SOPHISTICATION TO MATCH YOUR CREATIVE DESIGNS. ' Ask for your free demo disk and catalog. Gain the competitive edge. • Design • Hydrostatics • Power & Resistance • Construction All with the superior user interface of Windows. a u t o s h i p Systems Corporation 403 - 611 Alexander Street Vancouver, Canada V6A 1E1 Tel: [604)2544171 Fax: (604] 254-5171 • AMERICA3. Offical Yacht Design Software 13 Autodesk. January, 1995 13
