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Re: Jules Verne and Bureau Veritas

From: boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:32:14 +0200
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Nejat is right. To my knowledge Veritas is not an insurance company,
conversely there are a lot of stations devoted to the inspection of
cars for security in France.
Jean-Pierre


Le mardi, 29 juin 2004, à 14:22 Europe/Paris, Nejat Bayramoglu a écrit :

> It doesn't seem to be an ınsurance company. Here are two definitions
> from web sites:
>  
> SOUTH AFRICA: "Bureau Veritas, established in 1828, is an inspection
> company dedicated to issues of safety and quality. It is a
> multi-faceted inspection company and has expertise in major industrial
> sectors including: marine, industry (energy and process,
> manufacturing), aeronautics and space, construction, government
> contracts, consumer products, food, health, services, transport and
> logistics. The Bureau Veritas group, based in France, is represented
> throughout some 500 offices around the world ."
>
> LATVIA: "Since 1828, we have been using our in-depth technical and
> industrial knowledge to promote the safety of people and property, on
> land and sea, and to improve the quality of products and services
> across a wide range of industries. Today Bureau Veritas has offices in
> 137 countries and a total of over 2.000 employees. Its principle
> activities include the classification of ships, the inspection of
> aircraft, vehicles, industrial equipment, buildings and civil
> engineering works, cargo surveying, product certification,
> certification of quality management systems against national and
> international standards (ISO 9000, ISO 14.000 etc.)."
>
>  
>
> Best,
>
> Nejat
>
>  
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Skravitz~at~aol.com
> To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne and Bureau Veritas
>
> To the Forum:
>     Please confirm that Bureau Veritas refers to insurance companies.
>  Mysterious Island translators Kingston, White and Bair simply did not
> bother to translate it. Stump left it as Bureau Veritas and I
> incorrectly translated it as Weather Bureaus.  What did 20K
> translators say?
> Sid Kravitz
>
Received on Tue 29 Jun 2004 - 18:32:38 IDT

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