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NEWS PEOPLE & COMPANIES

Adachi Joins GAC Japan Team

GAC appointed marine sales engi- neer Yuichi Adachi as Marketing Man- ager - Shipping for

Japan. He joins an established team –

Senior Marketing

Manager Ichiro

Tanami and Marketing Manager Jose

Miyazaki.

Promotions at BMT Marine &

Offshore Surveys Ltd

BMT Marine &

Offshore Surveys

Ltd. appointed Nigel

Clark as Managing

Director with former

Managing Director

Dr Phil Thompson taking on the role of non-executive Chair- man. Nigel has been with the company since September 2009 having joined as

Finance Director. He has a strong back- ground in the marine and offshore sectors having held senior positions within a number of oil and gas companies and within London Marine Group (LMG) where he was both Group Finance Direc- tor and acting CEO. Whilst with LMG

Nigel was instrumental in helping the

Company to achieve significant growth.

Black Named Globe Wireless CFO

Globe Wireless said that Thomas M.

Black has been ap- pointed CFO of the company. Black owned a successful consulting practice, providing financial and strategic guid- ance to maritime companies. He was a fi- nancial partner in Tatum, LLC, and also held multiple positions with Tropical

Shipping, including Senior VP of Foreign

Operations and CFO.

Moore Takes on Western Industrial

Sales for Samson

Samson announced the retirement of

Dave Strauss, western regional sales manager of industrial markets, and the hire of his replacement, David Moore of

Portland, Ore. After almost 20 years of service, Strauss is retiring in June 2010.

Strauss has served in both the recre- ational marine and industrial markets during his career. Samson has filled the position with the hire of Moore, who has a bachelor of science in aerospace engi- neering and a master of business admin- istration in marketing.

Foss Promotes Two

Foss Maritime announced that two ma- rine transportation veterans will take over key assignments at the company. Andy

Stephens has been promoted to Vice

President, Business and Planning Devel- opment, where he will be responsible for developing initiatives for the consoli- dated business activities of Foss Mar- itime. Stephens, who joined the company in 1993, will also become chief of staff to Foss Maritime COO and President

Gary Faber. Faber also announced the hiring of Mike Magill, who will become

Vice President, Technical Services. He will take over responsibilities for Foss' shipyards, purchasing and engineering departments; areas previously managed by Stephens. Magill comes to Foss with 29 years of experience in the maritime transportation industry, most recently with K-Sea (formally Sea Coast Towing), where the scope of his position included divisional operations, fiscal performance, safety and compliance on the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and internationally.

BAE Systems Acquires

Atlantic Marine

BAE Systems entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Atlantic Marine

Holding Company (Atlantic Marine) from JFL-AMH Partners, LLC, a portfo- lio company of the private equity firm

J.F. Lehman & Company for $352m.

Atlantic Marine is a privately held ves- sel maintenance, repair, overhaul and conversion (MROC), marine fabrication, and ship construction services provider with operations at Mayport and Jack- sonville, Florida; Moss Point, Missis- sippi; and Mobile, Alabama. The acquisition does not include Atlantic Ma- rine's Boston and Philadelphia opera- tions, which will be retained by

JFL-AMH Partners, LLC. The acquisi- tion will be funded from BAE Systems' existing cash resources. The proposed ac- quisition is conditional, among other things, upon receiving certain U.S. regu- latory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2010.

Wärtsilä, Robert Allan Sign Coop- eration Agreement

Wärtsilä signed a Letter of Intent with

Canadian ship design company Robert

Allan Ltd. to develop a Strategic Coop- eration Agreement. Both parties see mar- ket opportunities for advanced tug designs, utilizing improved hull forms and new fully integrated power and propulsion technologies. The aim of the cooperation agreement will be to jointly develop advanced, environmentally

Papp Takes

USCG Helm

Adm. Robert J. Papp, Jr., as- sumed command as the 24th com- mandant of the Coast Guard today, relieving Adm. Thad W. Allen dur- ing a military ceremony at Fort

Lesley J. McNair in Washington,

D. C. last month. “I am honored to serve as the 24th commandant of the Coast Guard,” said Papp. Dur- ing the ceremony, Secretary of De- fense Robert Gates awarded Allen the Defense Distinguished Service

Medal. Secretary of Homeland Se- curity Janet Napolitano presided over the change of command and awarded Allen the Homeland Se- curity Distinguished Service

Medal. While the ceremony marked the end of his term as com- mandant, Allen will continue to serve as the National Incident

Commander for the Deepwater

Horizon oil spill, managing an un- precedented response effort.

Papp reports to Coast Guard

Headquarters from Portsmouth,

Va., where he served as com- mander of Coast Guard Atlantic

Area since 2008.

Allen became the 23rd comman- dant of the U.S. Coast Guard on

May 25, 2006. He has led the largest component of the Depart- ment of Homeland Security, com- prised of 42,000 men and women on active duty, 7,000 civilians, 8,000 reservists and 34,000 volun- teer Coast Guard Auxiliarists.

Allen’s leadership in times of crisis includes the aftermath of Hurri- canes Katrina and Rita, when he served as the principal federal offi- cer responsible for response and recovery operations. Allen has led the Coast Guard through a recapi- talization effort to replace an aging fleet of cutters, aircraft and sen- sors, as well as a modernization program to better organize, train, equip and deploy Coast Guard per- sonnel to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Bollinger Wins

Safety Awards

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. received awards for Excellence in

Safety, Improvements in Safety, and Occupational Safety awards from two industry groups. The Award for Excellence in Safety and the Award for Improvement in Safety for 2009 were presented to

Bollinger by the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA). The awards were received during the association’s April 26-28, 2010 general membership meeting held in Washington, D.C. The Award for Excellence in Safety is given to member companies who have an end-of-year Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) that is below the average SCA rate. The Award for Improvement in Safety is given to member companies who have reduced their TRIR by ten percent or more.

Pictured left to right: Ian Bennitt, SCA - Manager

Government Affairs; Chris Bollinger, Bollinger Ship- yards - Executive Vice President; and Matthew Pax- ton, SCA - President. (Photo cour tesy Bollinger Shipyar ds)