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Renaissance Cruise Ships

Reflagged To Marshall Islands

Six of the former Renaissance cruise ships now owned by Cruiseinvest LLC, a Marshall Islands-incorporated compa- ny, have been re-flagged to the Marshall

Islands, Cruiseinvest, and International

Registries Inc. the managers of the Mar- shall Islands maritime and corporate registers, said in a joint announcement on December 5, 2001.

Dominique Prunier, chief executive of Cruiseinvest Management S.A.. said that Cruiseinvest had appointed Ameri- can Marine Advisors, the New York- based merchant bank, as the ships' com- mercial manager, and the Monte-Carlo based Martinoli SAM as the fleet's tech- nical manager.

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Philadelphia Gear's corporate headquar- ters in Norristown, Pa., will lead the company's efforts to align with its end users and develop new product offer- ings.

Rapp succeeds Gerry Rooney, who held the position of president and CEO from May 1998 through September 2001.

Fire on Stolt-Nielsen Barge

At Uerdingen

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group

Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Stolt-Nielsen S.A. reports that during the early morning of November 21, the crew of the SNTG Motor Tank Barge,

Stolt Rotterdam discharging nitric acid at Bayer Uerdingen near Cologne on the

River Rhine noticed fumes coming from the double bottom of the barge. The local authorities and fire department were alerted immediately.

Subsequently, the captain and crew coordinated their emergency response with shore personnel and the emergency authorities — there were no reports of injuries to any personnel or persons in the vicinity.

The crew was evacuated as a result of an engine room fire caused by nitric acid leaking from one of the ship's tanks con- taining 270 cu. m. of product. As a safe- ty measure, the barge was lowered to the river bottom.

The ship was loaded with 1,352 cu. m. of nitric acid.

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