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Pape Retires from MAN

Diesel SE

Fritz Pape (65),

Deputy Chairman of the Board of MAN

Diesel SE, retired on

October 31, 2006.

Pape has been part of the company since 1966, having spent 13 years as a

Member of the Board. His successor, Dr.

Georg Pachta-Reyhofen (51) has been in charge of the company since July 1, 2006 in his role as Chairman of the

Board. He is also a Director of MAN

AG, Munich.

Following graduation as an engineer in 1966, Pape began his career as a pro- duction engineer at MAN. From 1973 onwards, Pape was responsible for the entire mechanical processing of diesel engines. He then took over as head of engine building and rose in 1988 to become head of the entire production department. In 1993, Pape was appoint- ed to the Board of MAN Diesel and remained there until his retirement, lat- terly as Deputy Chairman of the Board.

He was simultaneously Member of the

Management Board of MAN AG,

Munich.

Northrop Grumman

Promotes Granata

Northrop Grumman Corporation's

Newport News sector has promoted Bob

Granata to program director for the refu- eling and complex overhaul of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS

Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Granata is responsible for overseeing the cost, schedule, planning and work perform- ance for the ship's one and only refuel- ing in its 50-year life span. Planning for the project will take place over the next three years, with the carrier scheduled to arrive at the shipyard in 2009. Granata earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of the State of New

York and a master's degree in manage- ment from the State University of New

York (SUNY) Maritime College. He is pursuing a doctorate in engineering management and is a member of the

Project Management Institute. Granata lives in Chesapeake, Va.

Aker Yards, Cruise &

Ferries Appointments

Aker Yards announced several execu- tive sales and marketing appointments for its Cruise & Ferry business in the wake of its acquisition of the French yards in Saint Nazaire and Lorient earli- er this year.

Juha Heikinheimo is in charge of Sales and Marketing in the Cruise & Ferries

Business Area, and he reports to Yrjö

Julin, President.

Carl-Gustaf Rotkirch is in charge of the sales function in Finland and Arnaud

Le Joncour in France. Both are also appointed as members of the local man- agement teams. They report to

Heikinheimo. So do the other sales man- agers, Didier Bourdin, Håkan Enlund,

Jean-Yves Fustier, Paavo Lohi, Kari

Pulli, François Sieur, Johan Snellman and Hannu Tuomela.

Eero Mäkinen is in charge of

Marketing, reporting to Heikinheimo.

Kai Levander, reporting to Mr

Heikinheimo, is in charge of Naval

Architecture. Carole Pavaut has been appointed as Manager of Naval

Architecture in Saint Nazaire, Tuomas

Routa in Turku and Jukka Vasama in

Rauma respectively. They report to

Levander. Alain Buck is in charge of

Tender Costing, and he reports to

Heikinheimo. Buck also heads Tender

Costing in France, while Ilkka Jussila heads the Tender Costing in Finland. He reports to Buck. Vesa Marttinen is in charge of Lifecycle Services (LCS), which has resources in Finland, France and the United States. Heikki Sipilä is appointed to be in charge of LCS

Projects & Services. He reports to

Marttinen. The area sales responsibles, also reporting to Mr Marttinen, are

Messrs Jarmo Seppälä / the Americas,

Mr Francois Lally / the Mediterranean and Mr Dan Westerlund / North Europe and Asia. All five mentioned above are members of the LCS management team.

The Sales & Marketing management team of Aker Yards, Cruise & Ferries consists of Juha Heikinheimo, Alain

Buck, Arnaud Le Joncour, Kai

Levander, Vesa Marttinen, Eero

Mäkinen and Carl-Gustaf Rotkirch.

Wärtsilä-Run Research

Receives EU grant

The European Union has chosen a research consortium coordinated by

Wärtsilä to receive a EUR 1 million grant to develop the use of methanol- consuming fuel cells to provide electri- cal power to marine vessels. The project is entitled "Validation of a Renewable

Methanol Based Auxiliary Power

System for commercial Vessels" (METHAPU).

The main purpose of the project is to develop and validate renewable-fuel- based technology on board a cargo ves- sel involved in international trade.

Wärtsilä's task in the project is to study the suitability of a methanol-based fuel cell system on board the cargo vessel. A further important aim of the project is to lay the technical groundwork to support the introduction of the regulations nec- essary to allowing the use of methanol as a marine fuel. The specific compo- nents of the technology to be validated are methanol fuel bunkering, distribu- tion, storage system and a solid oxide

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