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Wiernicki to Become CEO of ABS

ABS President and Chief Operating

Officer Christopher J. Wiernicki will assume the duties of Chief Executive

Officer of ABS following the classifi- cation society’s annual meeting in

April 2011.

Robert D. Somerville, currently

Chairman and CEO of ABS, will relinquish the CEO responsibilities while remaining Chairman of both

ABS and the ABS Group of

Companies. Wiernicki, a member of the Board of Directors of ABS, has been working closely with Somerville for the last four years in his position as President and COO. The role of

CEO will be in addition to

Wiernicki’s existing responsibilities.

Miller Named Great Lakes

Legislator of the Year

A commitment to ending the dredging crisis on the Great Lakes earned Congresswoman Candice

Miller (R-MI) an award as 2011

Great Lakes Legislator of the Year from the Great Lakes Maritime Task

Force. Miller represents Michigan’s 10th District in the House of

Representatives. She sits on two of key maritime committees —

Homeland Security and

Transportation and Infrastructure and is chairwoman of Homeland

Security’s subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

WCI Leadership Service Award to

Congressman Rogers

The Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) presented Congressman Hal

Rogers (R-KY), Chairman of the

House Appropriations Committee (center) with its 10th Annual

Leadership Service Award for his work championing ports and water- ways issues. Cornel Martin, WCI

President and CEO (left) and Rick

Calhoun, WCI Chairman of the

Board (right) presented the award.

OMSA New Leadership:

Hornbeck, Adams

The Offshore Marine Service

Association (OMSA) announced a rotation of the association’s officers.

Todd Hornbeck, CEO Hornbeck

Offshore Operators, Inc., will succeed

Otto Candies III as chairman of the

Board; Robert Clemons, Vice

President and General Manager of the Americas Division SEACOR

Marine, LLC, will advance to Vice

Chairman; and Ben Bordelon,

Executive Vice President of Repair

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., will serve as

Secretary and Treasurer. Jim Adams, who had been working in his interim position since August, was named as the association’s President and CEO.

Capt. Habib Appointed Titan VP

Rich Habib has been appointed vice president of Titan Salvage. Habib is a 1977 graduate of the U.S. Coast

Guard Academy. He commanded a patrol boat and rescue station and exchanged to the U.S. Navy where he served a tour aboard a frigate. After leaving the Coast Guard in 1984, he worked in the oil field aboard supply boats and later specialized in the international tramp heavy lift trade aboard Dock Express and Van

Ommeren vessels.

Int’l Ship Masters’ Association 2011 Convention

The 121st annual convention of

International Ship Masters’

Association (ISMA), held in Detroit,

Mich., concluded on Feb. 12. Newly- elected officers were installed. Elected were Grand President, Thomas

McMullen, of Livonia, Mich.; Grand 1st Vice President, Seann

O’Donoughue, of Owen Sound,

Ontario; Grand 2nd Vice President,

Rebecca Hancock, of Traverse City,

Mich.; Grand Secretary-Treasurer,

George R. Skuggen, of Avon Lake,

Ohio.

Harley Joins SI-TEX Sales Team

SI-TEX announced that Chris

Harley has joined its team of sales professionals. Harley’s list of past and present clients include Furuno USA (whom he represented for 16 years),

Aqualuma Underwater Lights,

Comrod Antennas, GMPCS Satellite

Communications, OceanView

Technologies Thermal Cameras and

VEI Marine Displays.

Wiernicki

Miller

Martin, Congressman Rogers, Calhoun

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Hornbeck

Habib