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IBIA Elects New

Executive Committee

The International Bunker

Industry Association has elected a new executive council which will serve until October 1999. Ivar

Tonnesen, bunker manager of

Gearbulk, has been elected IBIA's chairman for the 1998/1999 coun- cil year.

First Step Towards

Phase One Of Port 2000

The first step in the $870 mil- lion expansion of container facili- ties at the Port of Le Havre was taken as the French Minister of

Transportation, Jean-Claude

Gayssot, signed an enabling docu- ment for phase one of the Port 2000 project.

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Final technical and economic studies will begin on four new berths in the first stage of the new facility which will have a long uninterrupted quayside outside of the present tidal basin of the Port of Le Havre, just south of the pre- sent container facilities. Phase one, at a cost of $563,000, will include planning for direct rail and road service to the new berths.

NCA Appoints

General Manager

NCA Nuovi Cantieri Apuania

SpA of Marina di Carrara, Italy, has appointed Alessandro

Guadagni as its new general manager. Most recently Mr.

Guadagni worked with SEC

Shipyards Group of Viareggio.

The appointment is part of a new expansion policy being under- taken at the shipyard. Two of the yard's most recent accomplish- ments include the delivery of

Excellent, a deluxe cruise-ferry, to its owner Grimaldi of Genoa, and the launching of M/S Isola Gialla, a chemical carrier with a 45,000 cu.-m. capacity under completion for the Festival Group of Rome.

ACL Appoints Six

American Commercial Lines

LLC has announced the following appointments: James J. Wolff as senior VP-Finance & Admin., and

CFO; Martin K. Pepper as senior

VP- International Business

Development; Chris Brinkop as

VP-Gulf Operations; Bill

Kinzeler as VP-River Operations;

Michael A. Khouri as senior VP-

Corporate Services; and Mary C.

Strench as VP-General Counsel &

Secretary.

ACBL Promotes Two In IT

Department

Jim Remaley has been appointed manager of Systems

Development at American

Commercial Barge Lines, Inc. (ACBL). Mr. Remaley was previ- ously manager of End User

Computing and Support Service.

Julie Elliott, with the company since 1979, has been promoted from E-mail Administrator to man- ager of End User Computing.

Autronica Signs

Cooperation Agreement

Autronica AS Maritime

Instrumentation of Norway and

Hyundai Information Technology have recently signed a cooperation agreement regarding marketing and sales of Autronica's Radar- based Level Gauging System.

Autronica evaluates the annual

South Korean market for these systems to be more than $15 mil- lion. Hyundai Information

Technology expects that the coop- eration agreement will have a sub- stantial effect on the turnover of the Autronica systems in South

Korea.

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