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SAILOR SALES AND SERVICE AGENTS ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS) Radio-Holland Caribbean N.V. Curacao N.A. Phone:.599 9 612577 Fax:.599 9 612723 ARGENTINA Oton R. Klein S A. Buenos Aires Phone: .541 760 0202 Fax: .541 760 6389 AUSTRALIA Rubin Marine. Artarmon NSW Phone: .61 2 94392333 • Fax: +61 2 94392278 a.m.i. sales O'Connor, Western Australia Phone: .619337 3266 Fax: .619314 2929 BAHRAIN Aeradio Technical Services Mina Salman Port Phone: .973 727790 Fax: .973 727811 BANGLADESH Graphics Communications Ltd. Dhaka Phone: .880 2 8922440 Fax: .880 2 883627 BELGIUM Antwerp Marine Radio Company N.V Antwerp Phone: .32 3 541 04 63 Fax: .32 3 542 61 73 BERMUDA Marine Communications Pembroke Phone: .1441 2950558 Fax: .1 441 2920079 BRAZIL O.L. Naval Ltda. Rio de Janeiro Phone: +55 21 222 5667 Fax: .55 21 242 7934 BULGARIA International Marine Technologies Ltd. - Rousse Phone: +359 82 228216 Fax: +359 82 279115 CANADA Radio Holland (Canada) Ltd. Nortti Vancouver Phone: +1 604 293 2900 Fax: +1 604 293 2930 CHILE Serprotec LTDA Valparadiso (Deep Sea) Phone: +56 32 232780 Fax: +56 32 212215 Simrad Chile Santiago (Fishing) Phone: +56 2 235 1 068 Fax: +56 2 235 8732 CROATIA BELAM-Zastupstvo i Servis Rijeka Phone: +385 51 672343 Fax: +385 51 672179 CYPRUS A.P. Hadjipieros Ltd. Limassol Phone:+357 5 345972 • Fax: +357 5 345973 ECUADOR Industrial Anabra C. Ltda. Guayaquil Phone: +593 4 309766 Fax: +593 4 313694 EGYPT Suez Electronics Engineering & Trading Ltd. Cairo Phone: +20 2 2742911 Fax: +20 2 2745219 ESTONIA A/SRSTA Tallinn Phone: +372 6 312082 Fax: +372 6 312082 FAROE ISLANDS S.P. Radio Denmark Phone: +45 98180999 • Fax: .45 98186717 (For further information) FINLAND ASPO Systems, Oy-Espoo Phone: +358 9 422155 Fax: +358 9 422908 FRANCE Geolink Roquevaire Phone: +33 442 32 99 00 Fax: +33 442 32 94 95 SDM Electronique Sartrouville Cedex Phone: +33 1 39146833 Fax: +33 1 39133022 GERMANY Elna GmbH - 25462 Rellingen/Hamburg Phone: +494101 30100 Fax: +494101 301214 GIBRALTAR Electro Med Marina Bay Phone: +350 77077 Fax: +350 72051 GREECE Marac Electronics S.A. Perama - Piraeus Phone: +301 4314361 Fax: +301 43 14234 GREENLAND S.P. Radio Denmark Phone: +45 98180999 Fax: +45 96186717 (For further information) HOLLAND Radio Holland Marine B.V. Rotterdam Phone: +3f to 4283344 Fax: +31 10 4281498 Sailtron B.V. • Utrecht Phone: +31 30 294474f • Fax: +31 302937642 HONG KONG Radio Holland Group Kwai Chung NT. Phone: +852 24239007 Fax: +852 24805898 Hoi Tung Communication & Navigation Co. Ltd Phone: +852 25421262 Fax: +852 25431137 ICELAND Radiomidun Ltd. 101 Reykjavik Phone:+354511 1010 Fax: +354511 1020 INDIA Elcome Marine Services Pvt. Ltd. New Bombay Phone: +91 22 763 23 48 Fax: +91 22 763 23 51 IRAN Kaman Hormozgan Marine Engineering - Tehran Phone: +98 21 222 8020 Fax: +98 21 222 4502 ISRAEL Alhout-Yam Ltd. Haifa Phone: +972 4 86 20804 Fax: +972 4 8627404 ITALY Compagnia Generale Telemar Roma Phone: +39 6 3221800 • Fax: +39 6 3240148 Generalmare est S.R.L. Chlavari Phone: +39185 32 33 56 Fax: +39185 32 27 31 IVORY COAST Optim Afrique Abidjan Phone: +225 251843 Fax: +225 257937 Nautical Afrique Abidjan Phone: +225 250136 Fax: +225 250137 JAPAN Kaigai Gijyulsu K.K. Yokohama Phone: +8145 6647318 • Fax: .81 45 6647320 KENYA East African Maritime Services Ltd. Mombasa Phone: +25411 472086 Fax: +254 11 472975 KOREA Samyang Radio Co Ltd. Pusan Ptione: +8251 413 5000 Fax: +82 51 413 5002 KUWAIT Elcome International Satat Ptione: +965 2406822 Fax: +965 2406833 Commercial Co-Ordination Centre W.L.L. Satat Phone: +965 2462347 Fax: +965 2454350 LATVIA/LITHUANIA Transas Baltia Riga Ptione: +371 7286585 Fax: +371 7821202 MALTA Medcomms Ltd. Gzira Phone: +356335521 Fax: +356310820 MEXICO Nautica. S A. de C.V. Mexico O.F. Phone: +52 5 6519740 Fax: +52 5 6512825 MOROCCO Soremar Casablanca Phone: +212 2 442802 Fax: +212 2 305385 NEW ZEALAND Electronic Navigation Ltd. Auckland Phone: +64 9 3735595 Fax: +64 9 3795655 NIGERIA Netarcomms Nigeria Ltd. Lagos State Phone: +234 1 871662 Fax: +234 1 264 6083 NORWAY AEG Norge A/S Oslo Phone. +47 22 89 78 00 Fax: +47 22 89 78 04 PAKISTAN International Aeradio Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. Karachi Phone: +92 21 5837800 Fax: +92 21 5870331 PHILIPPINES Radio Holland B.V. (Philippines) inc. Manila Phone: +63 2 527 5865 Fax: +63 2 527 5866 POLAND EPA Ltd. 71-324 Szczecin Phone: +4891 874885 Fax:»4891 875014 PORTUGAL Nautel - Electronica Maritima, Ltda. Lisbon Phone: +351 13920940 Fax: .351 13970084 QATAR Eastern Technical Services Co. Doha Ptione: +974 441412 Fax: +974 329292 RUMANIA Imsat Maritime SA Constanta Constanta Phone: .40 41 639038 Fax: +40 41 674356 RUSSIA Transas Marine Ltd. • St. Petersburg Phone: .7 812 567 2090 Fax: .7812 567 1901 Moretron Ltd. Murmansk Phone: .47 85 10144 Fax: +47 85 1 0144 SAUDI AHABIA Key Communication Development Ltd. Dammam Phone: .966 3 8336940 Fax: .966 3 8330728 SENEGAL Optim Senegal Dakar Phone: .221 234930 Fax: .221 229676 SINGAPORE Radio Holland B.V. Singapore Phone: .658622218 Fax: +65 8622430 SOUTH AFRICA Cape Maritime Electronics (Pty.) Ltd. Cape Town Phone: +27 21 551 3204 Fax: +27 21 551 3206 Radio Holland Group. Paarden Eiland (Cape Town) Phone: +2721 511 0864 Fax: +2721 511 7577 SPAIN Nautical San Sebastian de los Reyes (Madrid) Phone: +34 1 6549411 Fax: .34 1 6549600 SWEDEN Ring Marine AB, Askim/Gdteborg Phone: .4631 668400 Fax: .46 31 663660 Racal Svenska AB. Vastra Frolunda (Goteborg) Phone: .46 31 292100 Fax: .46 31 292109 TAIWAN R.O.C. Unimax Electric & Co., Ltd. Kaohsiung Phone: .886 7 815 9775 Fax: .886 7 815 1 775 TANZANIA The Old East African Trading Co. Ltd Dar es Salaam Phone: .255 51 32249 Fax: .255 51 46909 TUNISIA Alcatel Tunisie 1080 Tunis Cedex Phone: .2161 717177 Fax: .2161 719888 TURKEY Elektro-Oeniz Ltd. Istanbul Phone: .90 216 392 77 29 • Fax: .90 216 392 8018 UNITCD ARAB EMIRATES Elcome International L.L.C. Dubai Phone: .971 4 342333 Fax: .971 4 342465 UNITED KINGDOM Ships Electronic Services Ltd. - Rochester (Kent) Phone: .441634 295500 • Fax: +441634 295536 URUGUAY Electromaritima Uruguaya Ltda.- Montevideo Phone: +598 2 947139 - Fax: +598 2 947138 Radio-Holland USA, B.V. Houston (Texas) Phone: +1 713 943 3325 Fax: .1 713 943 3802 VENEZUELA Radio Holland De Venezuela S.A. Maracaibo Phone: .5861 987811 Fax: .5861 982596 Circle 217 on Reader Service Card Public v. Private Founded in 1977 by Art and Herb Engel, SWM and SFD, with combined revenues of approximately $200 million, are ship repair companies specializing in the conversion, overhaul and modernization of government and commercial vessels. Recently, however, the private ship repair industry has lodged complaints about the way the government is handling its ship repair needs. Though there are reportedly only four operating public ship repair yards, down from eight in 1990, employing 21,000 workers, down from 85,000 in 1990, those yards are still report- edly receiving the same amount of money from the government for the repair of naval ships as they were seven years ago. According to Mr. Ewing this should not be the case. Mr. Ewing indicated that because private ship repair yards are able to offer more com- petitive prices and because the Navy has reportedly indicated an interest in privatiz- ing more of its ship repair business, private yards should be receiving more business from the government. As a result of this — and cutbacks in defense spending — compa- nies like SWM, who depend on the Navy for most of their business, have experienced steep losses of late. At SWM alone, revenues dropped from $350 million in 1990 to $200 million in 1997, decreasing its workforce from 4,000 to 1,800. In addition to the diffi- culties presented by decreased defense spending and the use of public yards, Mr. Ewing and others in the ship repair indus- try have maintained that the government does not release information about projected spending, making it difficult for ship repair companies to conduct business in a secure environment. To combat this trend, the six ship repair associations nationwide have banded together under the umbrella of the Shipbuilders Council of America and hired a consultant to work with the government toward achieving some basic objectives. These objectives include: establishing improved communications between the Navy and the ship repair companies; achiev- ing the mandated 60/40 percent split between public and private ship repair bud- get allotments; and designating a contin- gency fund for emergencies, which have reportedly been funded in the past by money earmarked for private ship repair yards. Moving Forward Despite these obstacles, the ship repair industry remains hopeful for improvements. SWM has turned a profit for the past two years, according to Mr. Engel, making it an attractive acquisition for the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group, one of the leading private buyers of defense and aerospace businesses. "The timing of our sale could not be better. Both companies are healthy and performing well, and the future looks bright," Mr. Engel commented. "In addition, The Carlyle Group will provide the companies with the resources for continued growth." Mr. Engel added that he did not expect the transaction to have any effect on either SWM's or SFD's employees or customers. "Carlyle is an investment company, not an operating company. A primary reason for selling to Carlyle is the importance that Carlyle placed on our employees," he stated. Following the acquisition of both compa- nies by Carlyle, Mr. Ewing, SWM's current COO, will be promoted to the position of CEO for both companies. Mr. Engel will resign from his position of CEO of SWM and SFD following the closing of the acquisitions to concentrate on the management of sever- al other business holdings. New U.K. Contestant Enters Repair Fray A new U.K. ship repair company — J. Kirkaldy and Sons — expects its floating drydock, located at the Dorset port of Portland, to be ready for duty by the end of this month. The dock was acquired from Sweden in August, and has been undergoing extensive refurbishment. The new yard intends to fill what it perceived to be a gap in yards to handling ships to 6,000 dwt. A&P Falmouth Wins Contract A&P Falmouth has won a contract to carry out a refit on the MOD Royal Fleet Auxiliary Landing Ship (Logistic) or "LSL" vessel Sir Geraint. Work will include tail shaft repairs, maintenance of bow door and bow and stern ramp systems, installation of a low level lighting network, and the inspec- tion, overhaul and replacement of main engine modules. Circle 55 on Reader Service Card Railko Debuts New Bearing Package Railko Limited launched a new bearing package which includes the complete design from a stern shaft diameter and approxi- mate housing size, to classification society requirements, delivery and bearing assem- bly fitting assistance services at the yard. Circle 54 on Reader Service Card A&P Tyne To Refit Color Viking Color Line is bringing its ferry Color Viking to the U.K. for refit work. This is reportedly the first time a British ship repair company has won a contract from a Norwegian ferry operator. The 20,581 grt ship will include a general annual refit and maintenance and installation of new fish tail sponsons. Circle 56 on Reader Service Card Hellenic Shipyards Wins Alexander Conversion Hellenic Shipyards Co. of Greece has won a contract from Latsis Group for conversion work on motor yacht Alexander. The 394 ft. (120 m) vessel is to be con- verted into a high class passenger cruise liner, with completion scheduled for February 1998. Circle 57 on Reader Service Card 32 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News