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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS third mate for Lykes Brothers and built a working knowledge of the Galveston and Texas City Ports, working for G&H Towing. Coonrod became a Galveston-Texas City Harbor Pilot in 1973. In his many years of service, he has piloted some 14,000 ships. Awarded a State Proclamation signed by Governor Rick Perry, he has twice served as Presiding OfÞ cer of the Galveston-Texas City Pilots and been the recipient of the Meritorious Public Service Award from the US Coast Guard. MTU for Southern Towing Tognum America Inc., a manufacturer of marine and off- highway engines, will supply 12 MTU Series 4000 diesel engines to power six push boats operated by Southern Towing Company, an inland waterways barge operator on the Mississippi River system and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The high-speed diesel marine propulsion engines from MTU will be used to power four new push boats and repower two older vessels. BAE Cuts Steel on Dredge BAE Systems has begun construction on the MV Magdalen, an 8,500 cu. yd. capacity trailing suction hopper dredge for Weeks Marine, Inc. Gibbs & Cox, an independent naval architecture and engineering Þ rm, will provide functional engineering and detailed production support during the construction. Reinhardt Joins Voith Board Carsten J. Reinhardt has become a Member of the Corporate Board of Management of Voith GmbH, as well as President and CEO of Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. Trinity Offshore Now TY Offshore The re-branding of the company from Trinity Offshore to TY Offshore is intended to provide clear market positioning for the Mississippi-based designer and builder of commercial tugs, offshore barges, oil spill response, patrol and oil Þ eld support vessels. The name change is also intended to delineate the company from Dallas, Texas-based Trinity Industries, Inc. TIGER FundingU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 47 transportation projects in 34 states and the District of Columbia will receive a total of almost $500 million from the U.S. Department of TransportationÕs TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) 2012 program. Applications for this most recent round of grants totaled $10.2 billion, far exceeding the $500 million set aside for the program. The Department received 703 applications from all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. Just 12 percent of the allotted funds, however, will help build port projects like the Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal at the Port of Oakland. www.dot.gov/tiger/fy2012tiger.pdf Senate Bill Would Protect Marine Environment, AWO Says Legislation introduced by Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) would establish a strong, nationally consistent standard for ballast water and other vessel discharges, bringing good news for the marine environment and for maritime commerce, the American Waterways Operators (AWO) announced. S. 3332, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, would require the U.S. Coast Guard to implement the most environmentally protective ballast water discharge standard achievable by existing technology. In the process, it would end the overlapping patchwork of federal and state regulatory requirements for ballast water and other vessel discharges that has made compliance confusing and costly for commercial vessel operators and mariners. The bill is similar to bipartisan language contained in H.R. 2838, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Authorization Act passed by the House of Representatives in November 2011. Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates ballast water and other vessel discharges under the Clean Water ActÕs National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program; the Coast Guard regulates ballast water under the National Invasive Species Act; and some 26 states have established their own redundant and sometimes conß icting rules for vessel discharges. CoonrodReinhardtLaHoodSCI at Silver Bell Awards AllegrettiJuly 201256 MNMNJuly2012 Layout 50-58.indd 56MNJuly2012 Layout 50-58.indd 567/10/2012 12:59:31 PM7/10/2012 12:59:31 PM