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Hayashi to Retire at MOL

George Hayashi announced he is retiring from his official duties as a member of the Board of Directors and

Deputy President of Mitsui O.S.K.

Lines, Chairman of its Liner Division,

President and CEO of MOL (America)

Inc., and Chairman of MOL (Europe)

B.V., effective June 23, 2005. He will continue in his role as Chairman of

MOL (America) Inc. Hayashi is step- ping down after spending more than seven years with MOL. Including his 34 years at APL, Hayashi retires having spent nearly 42 years in the liner busi- ness. He will be succeeded as President and CEO of MOL (America) Inc. by

Osamu Suzuki, newly promoted to

MOL Managing Executive Officer.

Suzuki joined MOL in 1973.

MSRC, Clean Sound

Merge

The Marine Spill Response Corp. (MSRC) and Clean Sound Cooperative

Inc. said that the two companies have merged effective April 1, 2005. MSRC, founded in 1990, is a national not-for- profit response company that owns and operates a fleet of dedicated Oil Spill

Response Vessels (OSRV), ocean going barges, shallow water skimming sys- tems, other response equipment and enhanced communications capabilities throughout the United States. Clean

Sound Cooperative, Inc. was established in 1971 by the oil industry for the pur- pose of responding effectively to marine oil spills in Washington State. The for- mer members of Clean Sound are also members of MPA.

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Knoy to Head WCI

Waterways

Council, Inc. (WCI) named

Mark Knoy,

President of AEP

Memco LLC as its next Chairman of the Board. Knoy succeeds Berdon

Lawrence, Chairman of Kirby

Corporation, as WCI's Chairman.

EBDG Adds Staff

Elliott Bay Design Group announced that David Smith has joined the firm as

Project Manager. Smith brings over 25 years of shipyard design and construc- tion experience to the team and has worked in shipyards across the country.

John Farmer joins the team as a

Designer II. John has a BS in mechani- cal engineering technology from Purdue

University and over 10 years of 3-D design and surface modeling experience.

Alisha Lamb has been promoted to

Designer III. Lamb joined EBDG in 2003 and has been actively supporting the firm's design team.

VT Halmatic Names New

Tech Director

VT Halmatic said that Professor Bob

Cripps, currently Engineering Manager at the RNLI, will be joining VT

Halmatic as Technical Director as of

May 9, 2005. Cripps worked at Lloyds before moving to the RNLI and has extensive technical knowledge and experience of small craft and composite technology.

Hepworth Names Thijssen

The B Hepworth Group has appointed

Bert Thijssen as Marketing Director for both Hepworth and Wynn. Thijssen brings 30 years of marine experience and has been charged with providing marketing direction and active sales support, as the new structure of the B

Hepworth Group emerges.

Jeffboat Appoints Linzey

Jeffboat LLC appointed Jerry R.

Linzey as its Senior Vice President,

Manufacturing. Linzey brings more than 20 years of skills to the company .

Seatruck Adds Vessel

Seatruck Ferries will introduce a third vessel onto to its Heysham —

Warrenpoint service in the summer of 2005. Lembitu, to be renamed

Challenge, will join the Seatruck fleet on a two-year charter, allowing an addi- tional 25,000 units per year. Seatruck recently announced a newbuild program that will see two purpose-built vessels entering service in 2007.

Telenor Selected

Telenor Satellite Services was chosen as a premier service provider of the next generation of mobile satellite communi- cations, Inmarsat's Broadband Global

Area Network (BGAN).

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