BLUST CONSIDERED FOR FMC CHAIRMAN NOMINATION
President Bush intends to nominate Steven Robert Blust to commissioner of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission and upon confirmation designate him chairman of the agency for a five-year term.
Blust is currently president and chief executive officer of Bay International Terminals in Tampa, Fla. He joined Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. in 1987 and served as vice president from 1991 to 1996. Blust also worked for the Jacksonville Port Authority in Florida from 1985 to 1987.
Blust is graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University.
If nominated and confirmed, Blust would replace Harold J. Creel Jr., who has chaired the FMC since February 1996.