VECO Exporter of the Year.

• Position: Award information - Brief Article

ECO has been named Alaska's

Exporter of the Year for 2000 and was presented with the governor's award recently at an Export Alaska banquet in Anchorage. From its origins as a welding and pipe-fitting support company in Cook Inlet, VECO has grown to a worldwide engineering and construction company offering support services for the oil and gas and mining industries.

"International trade is an increasingly important part of Alaska's economy," said Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, who presented the award to VECO President Pete Leathard...