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To: John Mansfield who wrote (18542)6/17/1998 1:26:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Respond to of 31646
 
'Shipping Full-speed Ahead To Beat Millennium Bomb

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''I'm sure that something will fall over (crash) that we haven't even thought of yet,'' Gosling said.

Gosling said that Shell had tested systems on Very Large Crude Carriers, and found failures in seven areas including radar system mapping, ballast monitoring, and ships performance monitoring.

''Not one of these failures would stop the ship, but they might if they all happened together,'' Gosling said.

Gosling also said that systems on a gas carrier had failed tests, including equipment for unloading the cargo and navigation.

At airports where Shell delivered supplies, failures due to Year 2000 problems included flow metering, fire alarms, and climate control.

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