THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 20, 1995 TAG: 9510200490
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
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The Navy awarded Norshipco a $3.5 million contract for work on the 4-year-old guided-missile destroyer Arleigh Burke. The new warship, equipped with the AEGIS target tracking system, will arrive at the Norfolk shipyard in early November and stay through February. The job will help keep many of the yard's 3,000 employees busy. The work involves drydocking the destroyer, cleaning and painting its hull and some minor alterations, said Ernest Reilly, Norshipco's vice president of contract administration. There could be a couple of million dollars more in options and growth work on the contract, too, he said. (Staff) Region's coal loadings soar in September
Coal shipments through the port of Hampton Roads jumped 37 percent in September compared with the same month last year. The region's three coal terminals loaded 4.8 million tons of coal during the month, compared to 3.5 million in September 1994, according to the Hampton Roads Maritime Association. So far this year, coal loadings are up 21 percent to 38.6 million tons. All three terminals reported significant September gains. Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Pier 6 in Norfolk, which has lagged the other terminals this year, was up 30 percent to 2.7 million tons and shipments through Pier IX Terminal Co. in Newport News more than tripled to 560,926 tons. (Staff) nView signs agreement with Anders + Kern
nVIEW Corp., a designer and manufacturer of computer and video projection products, said that nVIEW International bvba, a subsidiary of nVIEW Corp., has signed a distribution agreement with Anders + Kern Gmbh & Co. A+K is an international distributor of over 550 audio visual products and is the manufacturer of the world's best selling briefcase overhead projector. A+K distributes products from 18 suppliers and has begun to expand its international distribution through A+K offices in the United Kingdom and A+K Australasia. From its headquarters located in Norderstedt, Germany, A+K provides training, support and service to its increasing world-wide customer base. nVIEW International bvba is located at Fountain Plaza, Belgicastraat 7, B-1930, Zaventum, Belgium. (Staff) Peninsula airport passenger traffic up
The Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport handled 16.4 percent more passengers this September than last, the airport announced. The growth is due mostly to the addition of ValuJet, a low-cost airline that flies four times a day to Atlanta. In September, 36,109 passengers flew through the airport. So far this year, passenger traffic at the Peninsula airport has been 252,538, up 2 percent from the first nine months of 1994. The airport has more than 26 daily flights offered by United Express, USAir Express and ValuJet. (Staff) Does affirmative action really work?
The Society for Human Resource Management has written a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor contending that affirmative-action programs are ``no longer meaningful management tools in today's corporate environment.'' SHRM said it has long supported affirmative action, but argued that requirements imposed on federal contractors ``do nothing to help employers create diverse workplaces.'' The Society said minority hiring requirements have simply added to companies' overhead costs to do business with the government by creating bureaucratic burdens. (Staff) Compaq sues companies, alleging counterfeiting
Compaq Computer Corp. sued two computer parts sellers, alleging that they counterfeited parts and caused problems for Sentara Health System in Norfolk, Marriott Corp., Microsoft Corp. and other Compaq customers. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston names as defendants Commodity Components International Inc. of Ipswich, Mass., and New England Circuit Sales Inc. of Peabody, Mass. It alleges that the two companies affixed the logo of Compaq, the world's biggest personal computer maker, to inferior parts used in servers, which store large amounts of data and serve as central repositories for networks of personal computers. (Bloomberg) by CNB