IDdesign Launches ‘Summer Surprise’ at DSS 2008

Lifestyle enthusiasts incentivized to modernize home furnishings

Leaders in up-market furniture and lifestyle furnishings, IDdesign will participate at DSS 2008 introducing a ‘sizzling summer special’ starting this month. As the market for elegant and contemporary home furnishings grows, IDdesign’s summer special focuses on the brand’s premium lifestyle products that range from classy lampshades, elegant vases and tabletop pieces to exquisite glassware, bright sets of showers, accessories and more. “Gulf customers increasingly demand high-end contemporary furniture to match the quality of their lifestyles,” said Mr. Surendran, Manager of IDdesign. “Through our offer at DSS 2008, this growing market of fashion followers can update their furnishing collections and re-design their homes to a more stylish look at an excellent price.” IDdesign has confirmed that customers spending AED 1,000 will receive a gift voucher worth Dhs 250 redeemable on accessories at on any of the store’s trendy lifestyle accessories. With preference towards indoor activities for the summer, shoppers opt to spend more time on sprucing up or redecorating their interiors with the latest comfortable and trendy furnishings. For the growing market that wants a fashionable, out-of-the magazine look, the store also has an in-house design consultancy which assists customers wanting to create their ideal home and personal environment. IDdesign stores offer top quality products for the whole family making it an ideal partner for the Dubai Summer Surprises.
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New GL Ship Manager 2.0 facilitates management processes and streamlines vessel operations

Rostock/Hamburg- The updated software tool GL Ship Manager 2.0 improves the efficiency of shipping operations and ensures compliance with industry requirements as well as international regulations.

Simplifying and automating the administrative workload for a ship is the overarching goal of GL Ship Manager 2.0. With the Windows Vista compatible GL Ship Manager 2.0, there is a new module structure. All essential processes of administrative and operational ship management are represented in GL Ship Manager's easy-to-use modules: GL Ship Manager Basic System, Technical Management, Ship and Voyage Management, Procurement. New are the modules reporting and analyzing, Compliance Management. "Ship operators and managers have expressed the need for a more workflow-orientated software tool in order to overcome the increasing administrative burdens of complying with industry requirements and regulations", commented Heiko Hofmann, Managing Director of "Ms Logistik Systeme GmbH" (MsLS), the GL-Group-company which invented the Ship Manager 2.0. Based on the results of a focus group with three of Germany's largest shipping companies and Germanischer Lloyd experts, Compliance Management has been designed as a best practice solution for recording, analyzing, acting upon and documenting incidents as well as occurrences. The Incident Management module is a main component of the Compliance Management group and facilitates the implementation of a company's safety and quality management systems.

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New GL Ship Manager 2.0 facilitates management processes and streamlines vessel operations

Rostock/Hamburg- The updated software tool GL Ship Manager 2.0 improves the efficiency of shipping operations and ensures compliance with industry requirements as well as international regulations.

Simplifying and automating the administrative workload for a ship is the overarching goal of GL Ship Manager 2.0. With the Windows Vista compatible GL Ship Manager 2.0, there is a new module structure. All essential processes of administrative and operational ship management are represented in GL Ship Manager's easy-to-use modules: GL Ship Manager Basic System, Technical Management, Ship and Voyage Management, Procurement. New are the modules reporting and analyzing, Compliance Management. "Ship operators and managers have expressed the need for a more workflow-orientated software tool in order to overcome the increasing administrative burdens of complying with industry requirements and regulations", commented Heiko Hofmann, Managing Director of "Ms Logistik Systeme GmbH" (MsLS), the GL-Group-company which invented the Ship Manager 2.0. Based on the results of a focus group with three of Germany's largest shipping companies and Germanischer Lloyd experts, Compliance Management has been designed as a best practice solution for recording, analyzing, acting upon and documenting incidents as well as occurrences. The Incident Management module is a main component of the Compliance Management group and facilitates the implementation of a company's safety and quality management systems.

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Finale of the Trophée Bailli de Suffren returns to Grand Harbour Marina

Camper & Nicholsons Grand Harbour Marina will once again play host to the finale of the seventh annual Trophée Bailli de Suffren; a 580 mile, 12 day offshore race from St Tropez to Malta reserved exclusively for classic yachts.

Organised by the Marenostrum Racing Club and the Société Nautique of St Tropez, the race is recognized as one of the most beautiful in the Mediterranean. The Trophée Bailli de Suffren, which boasts Brigitte Bardot as its patron, departed from St Tropez on 27^th June – and will finish in La Valetta, Malta, on 7^th July. Named after Pierre André de Suffren, Admiral of the French Navy and the Maltese Ambassador at Versailles, the race is a truly unique event celebrating the grandeur of traditional sailing yachts. The magnificent vessels will cross the finish line on 7^th July as they enter Grand Harbour Marina in La Valetta, Malta, where they will be moored for three days in the stunning medieval harbour before finally departing home. During their stay crews will enjoy cocktails and a gala dinner at the French Embassy – an award ceremony will also be held at the Royal Malta Yacht Club. Ben Stuart, General Manager for Grand Harbour Marina, said: “There are very few events of this nature which feature boats of such distinguished charm. Grand Harbour is the ideal location for the race to come to an end and we would encourage people to visit the marina and see these stunning vessels for themselves. “The historic surroundings of the marina will provide the perfect backdrop to one of the most visually stunning events in the racing calendar.”

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Subsea 7 announces major contract in Africa

Subsea 7 has been awarded its largest contract to date in Africa.
The contract is a framework agreement with call-off services in support of a major development program in offshore West Africa. Subsea 7 has signed the first call-off contract under the frame agreement with an estimated value of US$460 million. The services will primarily be performed using Subsea 7's new build flexible pipe lay and construction vessel, the ‘Seven Seas'. Subsea 7 is a global offshore company with operations supported out of the North Sea, Africa, Brazil, North and Central America and Asia.
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Two 1,740TEU vessels delivered to Samudera

Samudera Shipping Line, based in Indonesia, has recently received the 1,740TEU ‘Sinar Sumba’ from a shipyard in Guangzhou, China, before its maiden deployment in Hong Kong in its new Korea-China-Malaysia service this month.

The US$83 million ‘Sinar Sumba’ was put into service with another vessel and will help the shipping group to attain its long-term strategy of providing flexibility in fleet deployment and stability in overall vessel operating costs, said a company statement. The delivery of the second of the two 1,740TEU ships is expected towards the end of the year.
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'Market for LNG to double'

The global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) will double in the next eight years, the head of Algeria's state oil and gas company predicted yesterday at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid.

Madrid: Mohamed Meziane, the chief executive at Sonatrach, also forecast that world LNG shipments will expand by eight per cent annually until 2020 as the volume of LNG spot trades grows on international markets. Last year, the value of global LNG trade was about US$63.7 billion (Dh233.8bn), based on figures published in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Mr Meziane's projections suggest that the market could grow to at least $127bn by 2016, and possibly much more in the light of rising gas prices. Mr Meziane's forecast, reported by Dow Jones Newswires, followed news that Exxon Mobil, the US energy company, plans to bring significant Middle Eastern LNG supplies to market in the next two years.

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