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Payne Named to AAPA Board

J. Stanley Payne, Chief Executive

Officer of the Canaveral Port

Authority, will serve on the 2009-10

Executive Committee of the Board of

Directors of the American

Association of Port Authorities (AAPA).

Thommen Appointed CGF Trustee

John Thommen, CEO of Ocean

Marketing and a 33-year veteran of the industry, has been appointed to a three-year term as a Trustee of the

Coast Guard Foundation.

Johnson President, CEO JRM

J. Ray McDermott, S.A. announced the appointment of Stephen M.

Johnson as President and Chief

Executive Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

Parrott to Lead TOTE

Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc. (TOTE) announced the promotion of John D. Parrott to president.

Roberts Re-Elected

Patrick Roberts, Director of

Operations for ShipConstructor

USA, has been re-elected Vice

Chairman of the Business Process

Technologies Panel for the United

States National Shipbuilding

Research Program (NSRP).

MMS Names Cooke Supervisor

Minerals Management Service (MMS) Gulf of Mexico Regional

Director Lars Herbst has selected

David W. Cooke, Ph.D. as the new

Regional Supervisor for Resource

Evaluation in the Gulf Region Office.

Tessier Promoted at Crowley

Crowley Maritime Corporation named Dorine Tessier VP of sales and chartering for its petroleum trans- portation group.

Crumpton Global Diving & Salvage

ROV Ops Manager

Seattle-based Global Diving &

Salvage, Inc. appointed Eric

Crumpton as Operations Manager for its fleet of underwater vehicles.

Shwartz Promoted

Alps Wire Rope Corporation announced John Shwartz as

Northwest Regional Sales Manager.

Perdido, Energy Construction

Project of the Year

Shell’s Perdido Development, the world's deepest offshore oil platform, won the ENR Energy Construction

Project of the Year award at the Platts

Global Energy Awards Ceremony on

December 3, 2009. Shell designed the Perdido host spar, a floating pro- duction facility, jointly owned by

Shell (35%, operator), Chevron (37.5%) and BP (27.5%). The proj- ect has already set a world water depth record in drilling and complet- ing a subsea well 9,356 feet (1.77 miles) below the water's surface with plans to drill an even deeper well at 9,627 feet. First production is expect- ed in early 2010.

CG Awards Bollinger Contract

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. was awarded a contract valued at over $142m to build an additional three

Sentinel Class 154-ft patrol boats for the U. S. Coast Guard. The initial contract for the design and construc- tion of the lead ship in the class was awarded to Bollinger in September 2008.

DonJon Shipbuilding & Repair on Lake Erie

N.J.-based Donjon Marine, Co.,

Inc. announced the creation of

Donjon Shipbuilding and Repair,

LLC (DSR). Through an agreement with the Erie-Western Pennsylvania

Port Authority and the acquisition of the assets of the former Erie

Shipbuilding, LLC, DSR will engage departments

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