Pendexter promoted to senior VP at ABS

Pendexter promoted to senior VP at ABS ABS has promoted Linwood Pendexter to corporate senior vice president and chief surveyor.
   Pendexter, who has worked at ABS for 34 years, serves as the classification societies chief surveyor, overseeing a global network of more than 1,400 surveyors.
   He has represented ABS on both the Work Group and Steering Committee of the Tanker Structure Cooperative Forum and in recent years served as chairman of the IACS Survey Panel. He was also project technical committee chairman for the Ship Structure Committee on Inspection of Marine Structures and for the Detection Probability Assessment for Visual Inspection of Ships. He is a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the American Welding Society.