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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Christian Berger Fortuny Coda JohnsonTodd vessel and military markets. Prior to joining Viega, Fortuny worked as a senior commercial account manager for Grainger Industrial Supply and she earned a bachelor’s degree in in- dustrial and systems engineering from

Florida International University.

Duluth Seaway Port Author- ity’s Coda receives Distin- guished Service Award

The Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) presented its 2017 William K.

Smith Distinguished Service Award to

Vanta Coda, executive director of the

Duluth Seaway Port Authority. The award was presented at the CTS annual meeting and awards luncheon on Feb- ruary 15. The Distinguished Service

Award is named in honor of William

K. Smith, who served on the initial committee that established CTS. Coda has been the Port Authority’s executive director since October 2013, a career that spans more than 20 years in multi- modal transportation and logistics.

ABS Delivers Subchapter M

Support to Blessey Marine

ABS has been awarded a Third Party

Organization contract by Blessey

Marine Services to support compli- ance with US Coast Guard (USCG)

Subchapter M requirements. “Like many in industry, Blessey Marine has spent the past several years preparing for the rollout of Subchapter M,” says

Blessey Marine President and COO

Clark Todd. “We chose ABS to be our

SubM partner based on their techni- cal understanding of marine vessels and their commitment to industry 55MN