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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October&nbsp;18,
2005</B>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top"><B>Registration No.</B> <U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)</DIV>



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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>73-3177794</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>1701 East Market Street<BR>
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130<BR>
(812)&nbsp;288-0100</B><BR>
(Address of principal executive offices)</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers<BR>
and Directors, as Amended<BR>
American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan</B><BR>
(Full title of the plans)</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Christopher A. Black<BR>
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer<BR>
American Commercial Lines Inc.<BR>
1701 East Market Street<BR>
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130<BR>
(812)&nbsp;288-0100</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Copies to:<BR>
<B>Imad I. Qasim, Esq.<BR>
Sidley Austin Brown &#038; Wood LLP<BR>
10 South Dearborn Street<BR>
Chicago, Illinois 60603<BR>
(312)&nbsp;853-7748</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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                    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares subject to outstanding
options issued under the Equity Award
Plan
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    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">1,021,084</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$4.1625<sub>(2)</sub>
</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>

<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$&nbsp;&nbsp;4,250,262.15<sub>(2)</sub>
</TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">500.26</TD>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares subject to outstanding
options issued under the Stock
Incentive Plan
</DIV></TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">84,108</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.50<sub>(2)</sub>
</TD>
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<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;378,486.00<sub>(2)</sub>
</TD>
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    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">44.55</TD>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares issuable under the Plans
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    <TD style="border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">1,342,464 </TD>

<TD nowrap valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><sub>(3)</sub></TD>
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<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$&nbsp;&nbsp;26.95<sub>(4)</sub>
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<TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$36,179,404.80<sub>(4)</sub>
</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">4,258.32</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;),
this Registration Statement also covers such additional and indeterminate number of shares as
may become issuable because of the provisions of the American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity
Award Plan for Employees, Officers and Directors, as amended (the &#147;Equity Award Plan&#148;), and
the American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the &#147;Stock Incentive Plan,&#148; and
together with the Equity Award Plan, the &#147;Plans&#148;), relating to adjustments for changes
resulting from a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, combination or
reclassification of the Common Stock, or any other increase or decrease in the number of
issued shares of Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration by American Commercial
Lines Inc.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(2)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;457(h)(1) and (c)&nbsp;under the Securities Act, calculated on the basis of the
average of the weighted average exercise price of outstanding options to purchase shares of
Common Stock under the Plans registered hereunder.</TD>
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    <TD>This Registration Statement registers 42,644 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Equity
Award Plan and 1,299,820 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Stock Incentive Plan.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee and, pursuant to Rule
457(h)(1) and (c)&nbsp;under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock of American Commercial Lines Inc. reported on the Nasdaq National Market on
October&nbsp;12, 2005, a date within five business days prior to the filing of this Registration
Statement.</TD>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002"> Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#006"> Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#007">Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#008">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#009">EXHIBIT INDEX</A></TD></TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference</B>.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents, as filed by American Commercial Lines Inc. (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;), are incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and made a part hereof:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a) the prospectus of the Registrant filed pursuant to Rule&nbsp;424(b)(4) under the
Securities Act (filed on October&nbsp;7, 2005); and
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b) the description of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the &#147;Common
Stock&#148;), of the Registrant contained in the Registrant&#146;s registration statement on Form 8-A
filed with the Commission on October&nbsp;6, 2005 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), including any amendment thereto or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents (such documents, and the documents enumerated
above, being hereinafter referred to as &#147;Incorporated Documents&#148;).
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Any statement contained in an Incorporated Document shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other subsequently filed Incorporated Document modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (&#147;DGCL&#148;) provides that a corporation may
indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal or investigative (other
than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation,
and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful. Section&nbsp;145 further provides that a corporation similarly may indemnify any
such person serving in any such capacity who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party
to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to
procure a judgment in its favor, against expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees) actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue
or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless
and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court in which such action
or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability
but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to
indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In accordance with Section&nbsp;102(b)(7) of the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation of the
Registrant, as amended, includes a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty
as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (i)&nbsp;for any breach of the director&#146;s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its
stockholders, (ii)&nbsp;for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii)&nbsp;under Section&nbsp;174 of the DGCL (relating to unlawful payment of
dividends and unlawful stock purchase and redemption) or (iv)&nbsp;for any transaction from which the
director derived an improper personal benefit.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In accordance with the provisions of the Registrant&#146;s bylaws, the Registrant shall indemnify,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, any person who is or was a party, or is threatened to be
made a party to, any threatened, pending or contemplated action, suit or other type of proceeding
(other than an action by or in our right), whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative
or otherwise, and whether formal or informal, by reason of the fact that such person is or was the
Registrant&#146;s director or officer or is or was serving at the Registrant&#146;s request (as a director,
officer or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise)
against judgments, amounts paid in settlement, penalties, fines (including an excise tax assessed
with respect to any employee benefit plan) and expenses (including counsel fees) actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with any such action, suit or other proceeding, including any
appeal thereof, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed
to be in, or not opposed to, the Registrant&#146;s best interests and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person&#146;s conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any such action, suit or other proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or
conviction, or upon a plea of <I>nolo contendere </I>or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a
presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner that such person reasonably
believed to be in, or not opposed to, the Registrant&#146;s best interests or, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person&#146;s conduct was
unlawful. In addition, the Registrant carries insurance on behalf of its directors, officers,
employees or agents that may cover liabilities under the Securities Act.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable.
</DIV>

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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Registration Statement.
</DIV>
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    <TD width="8%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="90%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left">Exhibit</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Number</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Description of Exhibit</TD>
</TR>

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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein
by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1,
File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial
Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 of the Registrant&#146;s
Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bylaws of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.4
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Specimen common stock certificate (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;4.1
of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on August&nbsp;29, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.5
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers and
Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.12 of the Registration
Statement on Form&nbsp;S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File
No.&nbsp;333-124454, filed on April&nbsp;29, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.6
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amendment to American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees,
Officers and Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.31 of the
Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July
19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.7
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.27 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Registration Statement on Form
S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File No.&nbsp;333-124454,
filed on May&nbsp;27, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Sidley Austin Brown &#038; Wood LLP.</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ernst &#038; Young LLP.</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Sidley Austin Brown &#038; Wood LLP (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit
5.1).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Powers of Attorney (set forth on the signature page to this Registration Statement).</TD>
</TR>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings.</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act of 1933;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
change to such information in the registration statement;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%"><I>Provided, however</I>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 2%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by
reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein and the offering of such securities at that time shall
be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted
by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Jeffersonville, State of Indiana, on this 18th day of
October, 2005.
</DIV>
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    <TD width="63%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left" nowrap><B>AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC.</B></TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">By:
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Mark R. Holden</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Mark R. Holden</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">President and Chief Executive Officer</TD>
</TR>
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</DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWERS OF ATTORNEY</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature to this Registration Statement appears below hereby appoints Mark
R. Holden and Christopher A. Black, and each of them, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in the name of and on behalf of such person,
individually and in the capacity stated below, and to file, all further amendments to this
Registration Statement, which amendments may make such further changes in and additions to this
Registration Statement as such attorneys-in-fact may deem necessary or appropriate.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
</DIV>
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    <TD width="28%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="45%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Name</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Date</B></TD>
</TR>

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<TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Mark R. Holden
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director, President
and Chief Executive
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Mark R. Holden
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Officer (Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Christopher A. Black
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Senior Vice
President, Chief
Financial
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Christopher A. Black
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Officer (Principal Financial Officer)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Paul F. Brotzge
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice President,
Treasurer and
Controller
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Paul F. Brotzge
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Accounting Officer)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Clayton K. Yeutter
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman of the Board
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Clayton K. Yeutter</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Eugene I. Davis
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Eugene I. Davis</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Richard L. Huber
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Richard L. Huber</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Nils E. Larsen
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Nils E. Larsen</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ Emanuel L. Rouvelas
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Emanuel L. Rouvelas</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/ R. Christopher Weber
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">October&nbsp;18, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">R. Christopher Weber</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein
by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1,
File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial
Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 of the Registrant&#146;s
Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bylaws of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 of the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on July&nbsp;19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.4
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Specimen common stock certificate (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;4.1
of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on August&nbsp;29, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.5
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers and
Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.12 of the Registration
Statement on Form&nbsp;S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File
No.&nbsp;333-124454, filed on April&nbsp;29, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.6
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Amendment to American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees,
Officers and Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.31 of the
Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1, File No.&nbsp;333-126696, filed on July
19, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.7
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;10.27 of Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to the Registration Statement on Form
S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File No.&nbsp;333-124454,
filed on May&nbsp;27, 2005).</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Sidley Austin Brown &#038; Wood LLP.</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ernst &#038; Young LLP.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Sidley Austin Brown &#038; Wood LLP (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit
5.1).</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 18,
2005
Registration No.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
Delaware
73-3177794
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
1701 East Market Street
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130
(812) 288-0100
(Address of principal executive offices)
American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers
and Directors, as Amended
American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plans)
Christopher A. Black
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
American Commercial Lines Inc.
1701 East Market Street
Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130
(812) 288-0100
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies to:
Imad I. Qasim, Esq.
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
10 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
(312) 853-7748
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
maximum
Amount of
Amount to be
offering price
Proposed maximum
registration
Title of securities to be registered
registered (1)
per share
aggregate offering price
fee
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares subject to outstanding
options issued under the Equity Award
Plan
1,021,084
$4.1625
(2)
$  4,250,262.15
(2)
$
500.26
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares subject to outstanding
options issued under the Stock
Incentive Plan
84,108
$    4.50
(2)
$     378,486.00
(2)
$
44.55
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share: shares issuable under the Plans
1,342,464
(3)
$  26.95
(4)
$36,179,404.80
(4)
$
4,258.32
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"),
this Registration Statement also covers such additional and indeterminate number of shares as
may become issuable because of the provisions of the American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity
Award Plan for Employees, Officers and Directors, as amended (the "Equity Award Plan"), and
the American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Stock Incentive Plan," and
together with the Equity Award Plan, the "Plans"), relating to adjustments for changes
resulting from a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, combination or
reclassification of the Common Stock, or any other increase or decrease in the number of
issued shares of Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration by American Commercial
Lines Inc.
(2)
Pursuant to Rule 457(h)(1) and (c) under the Securities Act, calculated on the basis of the
average of the weighted average exercise price of outstanding options to purchase shares of
Common Stock under the Plans registered hereunder.
(3)
This Registration Statement registers 42,644 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Equity
Award Plan and 1,299,820 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Stock Incentive Plan.
(4)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee and, pursuant to Rule
457(h)(1) and (c) under the Securities Act, based on the average of the high and low prices of
the Common Stock of American Commercial Lines Inc. reported on the Nasdaq National Market on
October 12, 2005, a date within five business days prior to the filing of this Registration
Statement.
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PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Item 4. Description of Securities
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed
Item 8. Exhibits
Item 9. Undertakings
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
Opinion/Consent of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
.
The following documents, as filed by American Commercial Lines Inc. (the "Registrant") with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), are incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and made a part hereof:
(a) the prospectus of the Registrant filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the
Securities Act (filed on October 7, 2005); and
(b) the description of the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common
Stock"), of the Registrant contained in the Registrant's registration statement on Form 8-A
filed with the Commission on October 6, 2005 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), including any amendment thereto or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.
All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
part hereof from the date of filing of such documents (such documents, and the documents enumerated
above, being hereinafter referred to as "Incorporated Documents").
Any statement contained in an Incorporated Document shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained
herein or in any other subsequently filed Incorporated Document modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not applicable.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL") provides that a corporation may
indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal or investigative (other
than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a
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manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation,
and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful. Section 145 further provides that a corporation similarly may indemnify any
such person serving in any such capacity who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party
to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to
procure a judgment in its favor, against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests
of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue
or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless
and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court in which such action
or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability
but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to
indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
In accordance with Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation of the
Registrant, as amended, includes a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty
as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its
stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct
or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL (relating to unlawful payment of
dividends and unlawful stock purchase and redemption) or (iv) for any transaction from which the
director derived an improper personal benefit.
In accordance with the provisions of the Registrant's bylaws, the Registrant shall indemnify,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, any person who is or was a party, or is threatened to be
made a party to, any threatened, pending or contemplated action, suit or other type of proceeding
(other than an action by or in our right), whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative
or otherwise, and whether formal or informal, by reason of the fact that such person is or was the
Registrant's director or officer or is or was serving at the Registrant's request (as a director,
officer or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise)
against judgments, amounts paid in settlement, penalties, fines (including an excise tax assessed
with respect to any employee benefit plan) and expenses (including counsel fees) actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with any such action, suit or other proceeding, including any
appeal thereof, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed
to be in, or not opposed to, the Registrant's best interests and, with respect to any criminal
action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person's conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any such action, suit or other proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or
conviction, or upon a plea of
nolo contendere
or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a
presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner that such person reasonably
believed to be in, or not opposed to, the Registrant's best interests or, with respect to any
criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person's conduct was
unlawful. In addition, the Registrant carries insurance on behalf of its directors, officers,
employees or agents that may cover liabilities under the Securities Act.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
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Item 8. Exhibits.
The following is a list of exhibits filed as part of this Registration Statement.
Exhibit
Number
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
File No. 333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.2
Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial
Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.3
Bylaws of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 3.3 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.4
Specimen common stock certificate (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1
of Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on August 29, 2005).
4.5
American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers and
Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.12 of the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File
No. 333-124454, filed on April 29, 2005).
4.6
Amendment to American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees,
Officers and Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.31 of the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-126696, filed on July
19, 2005).
4.7
American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 10.27 of Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form
S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File No. 333-124454,
filed on May 27, 2005).
5.1
Opinion of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP.
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
23.2
Consent of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit
5.1).
24.1
Powers of Attorney (set forth on the signature page to this Registration Statement).
Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
change to such information in the registration statement;
Provided, however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if
the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is
contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each
such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant
to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by
reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein and the offering of such securities at that time shall
be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted
by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the
final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Jeffersonville, State of Indiana, on this 18th day of
October, 2005.
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL LINES INC.
By:
/s/ Mark R. Holden
Mark R. Holden
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWERS OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature to this Registration Statement appears below hereby appoints Mark
R. Holden and Christopher A. Black, and each of them, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full
power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in the name of and on behalf of such person,
individually and in the capacity stated below, and to file, all further amendments to this
Registration Statement, which amendments may make such further changes in and additions to this
Registration Statement as such attorneys-in-fact may deem necessary or appropriate.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Name
Title
Date
/s/ Mark R. Holden
Director, President
and Chief Executive
October 18, 2005
Mark R. Holden
Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Christopher A. Black
Senior Vice
President, Chief
Financial
October 18, 2005
Christopher A. Black
Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Paul F. Brotzge
Vice President,
Treasurer and
Controller
October 18, 2005
Paul F. Brotzge
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Clayton K. Yeutter
Chairman of the Board
October 18, 2005
Clayton K. Yeutter
/s/ Eugene I. Davis
Director
October 18, 2005
Eugene I. Davis
/s/ Richard L. Huber
Director
October 18, 2005
Richard L. Huber
/s/ Nils E. Larsen
Director
October 18, 2005
Nils E. Larsen
/s/ Emanuel L. Rouvelas
Director
October 18, 2005
Emanuel L. Rouvelas
/s/ R. Christopher Weber
Director
October 18, 2005
R. Christopher Weber
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description of Exhibit
4.1
Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1,
File No. 333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.2
Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation of American Commercial
Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.3
Bylaws of American Commercial Lines Inc. (incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 3.3 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on July 19, 2005).
4.4
Specimen common stock certificate (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1
of Amendment No. 1 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No.
333-126696, filed on August 29, 2005).
4.5
American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees, Officers and
Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.12 of the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File
No. 333-124454, filed on April 29, 2005).
4.6
Amendment to American Commercial Lines Inc. Equity Award Plan for Employees,
Officers and Directors (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.31 of the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-126696, filed on July
19, 2005).
4.7
American Commercial Lines Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated herein by
reference to Exhibit 10.27 of Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form
S-4 of American Commercial Lines LLC and ACL Finance Corp., File No. 333-124454,
filed on May 27, 2005).
5.1
Opinion of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP.
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
23.2
Consent of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit
5.1).
24.1
Powers of Attorney (set forth on the signature page to this Registration Statement).