ECI-USA and IEC join forces in the marketing of their respective products

E-crane International USA announces agreement with Interstate Equipment Corporation.

E-crane International USA was founded in 1999 as the American support center for the revolutionary E-crane and is headquartered in Bucyrus, Ohio.

Most of the E-crane™ installations have been on the waterways to offload coal from barges for utility companies, cement for LaFarge and bauxite for the Aluminum processing Industry, to name a few.

Interstate Equipment Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA has nearly a century of experience in Port and River Barge Handling Systems. These engineered products provide waterway operators safe, secure and dependable solutions designed to minimize barge handling costs.

Mr. Mark Osborne, PE, President of E-crane USA and Joe Vogel, Vice President Sales of IECmet on several occasions and decided in November 2003 to join forces in the marketing of their respective products.

This association will benefit customers in several ways:

• The most efficient material handler on the waterways, the E-crane™,
combined with expert solutions such as

• Barge mooring systems, barge haul systems, floating dock barge systems equipped with E-crane™, and more

• from one source for an

• Efficient – trouble free – on time – on budget

• Material handling solution.

Feedback from Mark W. Osborne P.E., President E-Crane International USA