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Cruise Shipping Annual in Cape Canaveral and Ft. Lauderdale,

Fla. to meet the growing demands in these markets. According to Dan Bell.

MSC's local manager, the Port Canaver- al location will specialize in turn day work, riding crews and larger projects.

The Ft. Lauderdale location will provide manufacturing, warehousing, engineer- ing, estimating and administrative func-

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Florida and Caribbean area.

Expansion has also been underway at

MSC's headquarters in Hood River. Ore.

Ongoing projects include a new ware- house (with another planned for spring) for inventory of "quick ship" joiner materials and expanded space for the addition of six CAD positions. An upgraded and expanded marine interior design department is also included.

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ACCL Adds New Itineraries

Known as the original smallship cruise line, American Canadian Caribbean

Line (ACCL). has established 25 new itineraries for the year 2000. Included in the new schedule are: Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway; seven-day Belize/Barrier

Reef; Chicago/Upper Mississippi; and

Great Lakes/Quebec City. Able to hold between 84 and 100 passengers each,

ACCL's three-vessel fleet Grande

Caribe, Grande Mariner and Niagara

Prince kicked off the new year in Cen- tral America and the Caribbean. Next summer Niagara Prince will travel the northern rivers and lakes near Chicago.

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New President Elected At ICCL

The International Council of Cruise

Lines (ICCL), a trade organization rep- resenting the North American cruise industry, has appointed John A. Bastek as interim president. Bastek, who has served as ICCL vice president since Jan- uary 1999, will be responsible for daily operations of the Association until a per- manent replacement is named. He was named to the position after Cynthia A.

Colenda, announced in November that she was stepping down as ICCL presi- dent, effective January l, 2000.

Drew Marine To Provide Water

Treatment System

An AWT Automated Water Treatment

System from the Drew Marine Division of Ashland Specialty Chemical Compa- ny was scheduled for a January installa- tion onboard Royal Caribbean's first

Vantage Class newbuilding, currently under construction at Meyer Werft

GmbH in Germany. Delivery will be made to contractor GE Packaged Power of Houston. Texas under a purchase agreement effective August 30, 1999.

The AWT system is a fully automated water treatment system for marine use.

The system continuously monitors boil- er water conditions and automatically doses chemical treatments to required levels for optimizing the performance of the steam-generating system.

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Seabourn Sun Unveils $15 Million Upgrades

Proceeding a $15 million refurbish- ment program, Cunard Line's 758-pas- senger Royal Viking Sun was recom- missioned as Seabourn Sun under the

Seabourn Cruise Line banner. The ves- sel was taken out of service following a call at Genoa on October 29, to undergo a complete refit at the Lloyd Werft Ship- yard in Bremerhaven, Germany. The architectural firm of Tillberg Design formatted the design plan encompassing 14 public areas, including a new health spa and expanded golf facilities.

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