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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Cook has resigned from its board of directors.

Mr. Cook, chairman emeritus of ARCO and a member of several other corporate and civic boards, was a member of the J. Ray McDermott board since March 1996. "We thank Lod for his service to the company.

His years of experience gave us useful insight at a time of great change in our company, and we will miss his counsel," said James L. Dutt, chairman and CEO.

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AMSC Announces Executive Staff

Changes

Robert L. Goldsmith has been named exec- utive vice president and chief operating officer for American Mobile Satellite Corporation (AMSC), assuming leadership responsibility for the areas of sales and marketing, operations, engineering and customer service. He succeeds

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There are many marine telecommunications options but only one clear choice for towboat operators.

With WATERCOM you can interface with computers anywhere to send information. You can communicate in "real time" with data systems, send/receive faxes and E-mail, and post electronic messages. And now you'll have access to the latest in marine electronics sales and service, including

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WATERCOM provides everything it takes to turn your boat into a profitable floating office.

WATERCOM offers a customized shoreside boat-location system, created by integrating

WATERCOM's direct-dial telephone network and its GPS positioning equipment. Know where your boat is at all times with relation to fleeting areas, docks, locks and more.

Plus, WATERCOM provides responsive customer service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You'll have easy access to a customer-service representative and operators anytime day or night. And your crew can charge personal calls through MasterCard, VISA,

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Brian Pemberton, who left the company at the beginning of the year. "As AMSC develops the business marketplace for mobile satellite communications, it is wide- ly acknowledged that effective marketing and selling will be the key challenge. Bob's long and successful sales background at MCI, IBM and

Satellite Business Systems ideally positions him to lead AMSC's efforts," said CEO Gary

Parsons. AMSC has also announced that

Chief Financial Officer Patrick Fitzpatrick will leave the company to become CFO of

DynCorp.

AMSC offers a full range of mobile communi- cations including telephone, digital broadcast dispatch, and data and position reporting ser- vices to the transportation, land mobile, mar- itime, aeronautical and fixed site markets.

Crowley Announces Leadership

Appointments

Oakland, California-based Crowley Maritime

Corp. announced that James J. Carey II, president, Crowley American Transport, has retired and that P. Elliott Burnside will become the company's new president.

Mr. Burnside most recently served as presi- dent and CEO of BMI Transportation Inc. He will now report to Tom Crowley, Jr., CEO of

Crowley Maritime.

Crowley American Transport has also promot- ed Mike Hopkins to vice president and gener- al manager of Operations, with responsibility for domestic and offshore land operations, marine operations, equipment, and intermodal and freight services. Before assuming this posi- tion, Mr. Hopkins served as vice president and general manager, Marine and Offshore

Operations, and has been employed by Crowley since 1976.

Centa Corp. Names New Sales VP

The Centa Corp. of Darien, 111., has appointed

Kurt Niederpruem to the position of vice president of Sales. He has 14 years of experi- ence in the application, distribution and mar- keting of marine and industrial couplings, transmissions and hydraulics, and has previ- ously held positions in marketing and sales with The Falk Corp., ITW and Lovejoy, Inc.

LR Awards ISM Certification To

Brazilian Interest

Global Transporte Oceanico SA has become the first company in Brazil to receive both

International Safety Management (ISM) Code and ISO 9002 certification from Lloyd's

Register (LR). This event coincides with

Global's 25th anniversary celebration.

Certificates issued include an ISM Document of Compliance (DOC) for the company's Rio de

Janeiro office for its safety management sys- tems covering a fleet of RoRos and chemical tankers; a Safety Management Certificate

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