Maritime Trade: "Some vessels may have problems crossing the ocean."

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China Ocean Shipping Group: "We have not yet put this problem high on our agenda. As we are the users of software, it's up to the computer experts to solve them."

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-- Norm (nwo@hotmail.com), April 14, 1999

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This, and the last two threads can't be from Norm.

One, they're bad news stories, and two, Norm always cuts and pastes the whole text.

Someone's impersonating you out there, Normy.

-- rick blaine (y2kazoo@hotmail.com), April 14, 1999.


Folks at Lloyd's Register also seem to think maritime shipping may have problems -- their Y2K section on the Web carries this paper (among others):

Recent paper produced by Vaughan Pomeroy & Alan Lough of Lloyd's Register and presented to the Lisbon meeting of the International Union of Marine Insurers in September 1998: The Millennium Bug--- Technical issues in relation to marine systems

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), April 14, 1999.


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