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Conclusions

For the foreseeable future, the U.S.

Government will continue to scrap its obsolete ships in U.S. yards, and will have to pay companies to do so in order to assure compliance with all U.S. envi- ronmental and labor standards. The backlog of ships to be scrapped is so great that the disposal program will not be complete for 10 years. The market will have to be developed through finan- cial incentives such as cost-plus con- tracts. As of this writing, key Members of Congress are trying to appropriate additional funds for MARAD and Navy ship scrapping programs in the United

States.

On the international front, the IMO and other international groups, will force scrapping countries, including

India, to upgrade their programs to the extent they can. U.S. shipping compa- nies can be expected to pay their fair share for disposal of their old ships in an "honorable manner."

The preceding was authored by Joan M.

Bondareff, Dyer Ellis & Joseph (Wash- ington, D.C.)

Lunde To Leave Intertanko

INTERTANKO announced that.

Dagfinn Lunde, the Association's Man- aging Director who has so fervently fought for the tanker industry for many years, will leave his post on September 15, 2000, opting to resume his career within international banking. Lunde, who has the ear of most of the world's leading marine industry poli- cy makers, is well regarded and is con- sidered to have done an excellent job dur- ing his five-year tenure as INTER-

TANKO's Managing

Director starting with a major reorga- nization where senior INTER-

TANKO managers were tasked with the responsibility for looking after the needs of members in particular geographical areas. INTERTANKO's chairman, Mr.

Westye Hoegh said. "I greatly regret that Dagfinn Lunde has chosen to leave

INTERTANKO, but we must look for- ward to building an even stronger

INTERTANKO on the firm foundations so ably laid down by Dagfinn Lunde during his tenure."

July, 2000

INTERTANKO's senior vice president & general counsel, Svein Ringbakken who currently heads INTERTANKO's

United States representation has been chosen to lead the organization until a new managing director has been appointed. A lawyer by training, Ring- bakken has been with INTERTANKO for nine years and during this time has actively been involved in a wide range of industry issues.

His current area of responsibility includes governmental relations with a particular emphasis on the United

States, the Association's legal, docu- mentary and insurance activities.

Within the above areas he has also represented INTERTANKO in the IMO,

EU and the International Oil Pollution

Compensation Fund.

He has in addition to this had the pri- mary responsibility for activities in the

Americas region.

Lunde

H0egh

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