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MSC Announces Promotions

Mediterranean Shipping Company (USA) Inc. announced key executive promotions that went into effect January 1, 2006. Claudio Bozzo has been named president and COO; Allen Clifford will now serve as executive vice president,

Commercial; Robert Milazzo is pro- moted to executive vice president,

Intermodal and Equipment Control;

Giancarlo Morgera has been named senior vice president, Liner Services;

Christopher J. Parvin is now vice president Marine Operations; and Fabio

Catassi is promoted to president and chief operating officer of Interlink

Technologies, the IT subsidiary compa- ny of MSC (USA) Inc.

Nicola Arena remains with MSC (USA) as its newly named chairman as well as chief executive officer of MSC (USA) Inc. and its subsidiary Interlink.

Hapag-Lloyd Expands

Hapag-Lloyd is enlarging its globally standardized organization from three to five regions. The management will also be expanded accordingly with the inclu- sion of CP Ships executives Juan

Manuel Gonzalez, Glenn Hards and

Alan Boylan, all of whom will become members of the executive body of

Hapag-Lloyd Container Line (Excom).

Hapag-Lloyd, based in Hamburg, cur- rently manages its business from three region headquarters: Hamburg (for

Europe), Singapore (for Asia and

Australasia) and New York (for

America). After acquiring CP Ships at the end of last year, Hapag-Lloyd is now setting up two new regions: South

Europe, based in Genoa, and Latin

America, based in Tampa, Fla.

Adrion New CEO of CP Ships

The board of CP Ships Limited appointed Adolf Adrion new CEO effective January 1, 2006 following the completion of the acquisition of CP

Ships by Hapag-Lloyd at the end of 2005 The new CFO will be Ulrich

Kranich, effective February 1, 2006.

Del Boca Promoted

Northrop Grumman Corporation appointed Robert L. Del Boca as sector vice president and general manager of the company's Defensive Systems

Division, effective immediately. Del

Boca succeeds James L. Cameron, who recently was named corporate vice president and president of the compa- ny's new Technical Services sector.

Devine Joins Healy & Baillie

Healy & Baillie, LLP announced the appointment of Brian P. Devine as a partner of the firm effective January 1, 2006. Devine has been an Associate of the firm since 1997.

OIS Wins Semi Reactivation Contract

In early 2005, Transocean Inc selected

Mobile, Alabama based Offshore-Inland

Marine & Oilfield Services Inc (OIS) to perform the re-activations of semis

Falcon 100 and Amirante. Transocean has now designated OIS as the prime contractor for the re-activation of the

Semi C. Kirk Rhein. The ongoing top- side services provided by OIS include steel fabrication and renewals, piping and tubing replacement, electrical repairs, mechanical component replace- ment and deck crane repairs.

Samson Makes Changes

Samson promoted Tony Bon to COO.

Mark Swiackey has been promoted to

Vice President of Operations. In antici- pation of increased opportunities in the domestic and international mooring and tug markets, Samson's Commercial

Marine division has made the following changes.

Larry Unser has been promoted to

Regional Sales Manager. Craig Kelly and Dennis Sherman have been pro- moted to Category Sales Managers within the Commercial Marine division.

Robin Collett has joined the

Commercial Marine sales team as

Regional Sales Manager.

Klenck Named VP

Crowley promoted Joel Klenck to vice president, ship assist and escort services, a part of Crowley's marine services segment, with overall responsi- bility for managing the company's growing tug services business from

Southern California to Alaska.

Transas Wins Nav Contract

Transas signed a contract with

Turkey’s Palmali Shipping, for the pro- curement of the navigational equipment set for five vessels. The vessels are dry cargo ships planned for construction in

Nizhni Novgorod, at Krasnoe Sormovo shipyard.

USN T-AKE Engines Under Way

Fairbanks Morse Engine shipped three of four engines for ship number three of the Lewis and Clark Class (T-AKE) of dry cargo/ammunition transport ships being constructed at General Dynamics'

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company in San Diego. The fourth engine shipped a week later on

December 29th. "The build cycle for these FM-MAN 48/60 engines is rough- ly four engines (one ship set), every six months," said George Ferriter, Program

Manager Fairbanks Morse Engine. The four FM-MAN 48/60 engines provide 35.7 MW for main propulsion and ship service power.

NASSCO Gets Ninth T-AKE

National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. won a contract option from the U.S.

Navy to build an additional ship under the T-AKE program, a new class of combat logistics force ships. The $317 million contract brings the total number of T-AKE ships awarded to NASSCO to nine, and the total contract value to $2.8 billion. Options for three additional T-

AKE ships remain available under the existing contract.

Keppel Singmarine Wins Contracts

Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd. won three newbuilding contracts worth a total $74 million. The first involves the construc- tion of four AHTS vessels for Hadi

Offshore Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Hadi

H. Al Hammam Est., Saudi Arabia (HADI). They will be built at Keppel

Nantong Shipyard, with deliveries expected in 2007 and 2008. The second contract is for the construction of a 60- ton Ice-Class AHTS vessel for

LUKOIL. Also, Keppel Singmarine will build a 100-ton Anchor Handling Tug (AHT) for a new customer, Seaways

International Pte Ltd., a newly setup operations in Singapore.

Aker Kvaerner Wins Contract

Lundin Netherlands B.V. Succursale de Tunisie awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract for marine operations in con- junction with deployment of the FPSO

Ikdam to the Oudna field offshore

Tunisia. The contract value is approxi- mately $14 million. The work will be executed under an alliance agreement with the Aker Kvaerner company, Aker

Marine Contractors, and Maersk Supply

Service who will provide the installation vessel.

Submarine Funds OKd

Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $1,108,787,793 modi- fication to previously awarded multi- year contract (N00024-03-C-2101) pro- viding full funding for fiscal year 2006

Virginia Class Submarine (SSN 781).

Additionally, the modification provides

Advance Procurement funding in the amount of $167,713,000 for fiscal 2007 submarine (SSN 782) and Economic

Order Quantity (EOQ) funding in the amount of $40,076,600 for each of the fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2008 submarines (SSN 782 & 783). Electric Boat Corp. will continue to subcontract with

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry

Dock Co., Newport News, Va. The majority of work under this award will be performed in Newport News, Va. (30 percent), Quonset Point, R.I. (15 per- cent), Groton, Conn. (15 percent), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the United States (40 per- cent).

Work is expected to be completed by

April 2014.

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