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                                                                     EXHIBIT 3.6

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                                ACL CAPITAL CORP.

                                   * * * * * *

FIRST:            The name of the Corporation is:

                                        ACL Capital Corp.

SECOND:           The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware
                  is the Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, City of
                  Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered
                  agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

THIRD:            The purpose of the corporation is to accommodate the issuance
                  of notes by American Commercial Lines LLC by becoming a co-
                  obligor thereunder and engage in other activities incidental
                  to the Corporation's co-obligation under such notes and
                  otherwise not to conduct any business activities or hold any
                  assets.

FOURTH:           The total number of shares of stock with the corporation shall
                  have authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of
                  Common Stock, each of which shall be without par value.

FIFTH:            The name and mailing address of each incorporator is as
                  follows:

                 Name                                Mailing Address
                 ----                                ---------------

                 Mary Ann Brzoska                    1209 Orange Street
                                                     Wilmington, Delaware  19801

                 Laura J. Vitalo                     1209 Orange Street
                                                     Wilmington, Delaware  19801

                 Daniel J. Murphy                    1209 Orange Street
                                                     Wilmington, Delaware  19801

SIXTH:            The name and mailing address of each person who is to serve as
                  a director until the first annual meeting of the stockholders,
                  or until a successor is elected and qualified, is as follows:

                           Michael C. Hagan
                           1701 East Market Street
                           Jeffersonville, Indiana  47130
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                           Michael A Khouri
                           1701 East Market Street
                           Jeffersonville, Indiana  47130

                           Anita P Beier
                           1701 East Market Street
                           Jeffersonville, Indiana  47130

SEVENTH:          The Board of Directors is expressly authorized and empowered
                  to make, alter, or repeal the Bylaws of the corporation.

EIGHTH:           Election of directors need not be by written ballot.

NINTH:            No person who is at any time a director of this Corporation
                  shall be personally liable to this Corporation or its
                  stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary
                  duty by such person as a director, except for liability (i)
                  for breach of the director's duty of loyalty to this
                  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
                  Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction
                  from which the director derived an improper personal benefit..

         WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the incorporators hereinabove named, for the
purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that the
facts herein stated are true and, accordingly, have hereunto set our hands this
29th day of May, 1998.

                                                     /s/ Mary Ann Brzoska

                                                     Mary Ann Brzoska

                                                     /s/ Laura J. Vitalo

                                                     Laura J. Vitalo

                                                     /s/ Daniel J. Murphy

                                                     Daniel J. Murphy

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