SOCP Meeting to be Webcast on June 12 Thanks to Sponsors, via TVWorldwide.com’s Maritime TV Channel

Positive Response from Past Meeting Webcasts Continues to Generate Interest in Web Coverage of Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) Meetings at Mass Maritime Academy,June 13 at www.maritimetv.com Past Event Sponsors Include CSX Lines, Houston Marine Training Services, Reliacast, California Maritime Academy Continuing Education Program, Maersk, NOAA, MARAD

For Immediate Release
April 26, 2001

Chantilly, Va.- MaritimeTV.com, an Internet TV channel on the TVWorldwide.com network, announced today that it will provide live web coverage of the Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) meeting to be held June 12 at the Massachusetts State Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Mass.  The meeting will feature a full spectrum of industry speakers addressing a range of maritime issues and new innovative technologies and current discussions surrounding the future of the fishing vessel and ferry industries. Speakers will be able to communicate with colleagues in the industry who could not attend in person via a live, interactive video webcast. Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the webcast. The webcast will offer worldwide participation on-line and be recorded on video in its entirety and compressed and archived at www.maritimeTV.com through a link from the SOCP web site home page at www.socp.org.

“We’re very excited to again be offering the meeting proceedings on the web,” commented SOCP co-chairman Lee Kincaid. “ In addition to allowing members who could not attend the opportunity to participate, we will be offering the meeting to the entire industry for interactive participation. We encourage sponsorship participation from our membership to make this possible.”

“The interactive webcast provides a whole new perspective to an SOCP meeting and we’re hopeful we can raise sufficient sponsorship funding to cover the costs of the live event,” stated Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com. “In October and March we saw how the webcast worked to enhance communication among maritime industry professionals, part of the SOCP mission. We look forward to doing it again at Mass Maritime. This is part of our ongoing effort to make our new MaritimeTV channel a community forum, driven by interactive video content relating to the industry.”

Participants should have the free Real Player installed on their browser prior to the event and should log on by 8:45 AM on June12. Technical questions can be directed to 703-961-9250 before and during the event. The event will be archived through a link on the SOCP home page to www.maritimetv.com for later viewing by those who couldn’t attend live and also made available for syndication to interested maritime sites nationwide.

The Maritime TV Channel (www.maritimetv.com), specializes in the production of video-based content for the international maritime community. Streaming video service provider TVWorldwide.com, is building a network of Internet TV Channels like Maritime TV Channel, each aimed at B2B and special interest audiences worldwide and recently received financing from PSINet Ventures, LTD., the wholly-owned corporate unit of PSINet, Inc.