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Halawi Appointed CEO of Thuraya

Dubai-based sat- com provider Thu- raya

Telecommunications appointed Samer Ha- lawi as CEO. He as- sumed the office

January 23, 2011 fol- lowing the return of Mr. Yousuf Al Sayed to the Etisalat Group. Thuraya leads the mobile satellite telecom industry in hand- held voice solutions with nearly 70% market share in its 140-country coverage area spanning Europe, Africa, the Middle

East, Asia Pacific, and Australia.

Teekay Management Appointments

Teekay announced that its current Pres- ident of its Shuttle Tanker and FSO busi- ness unit, Kenneth Hvid, has been appointed to the position of Executive

Vice President and Chief Strategy Offi- cer effective April 1, 2011. Hvid will suc- ceed Peter Evensen, who will take over as Teekay's President and CEO in April 2011 as a result of the previously an- nounced retirement of Bjorn Moller.

Ingvild Sæther has been appointed

Hvid's successor as President, Teekay

Navion Shuttle Tankers and Offshore ef- fective April 1, 2011.

Grove Takes on

Chief Technology Role at ABS

ABS announced the appointment of

Todd Grove to the position of Chief

Technology Officer (CTO). Grove will report to ABS Presi- dent and COO

Christopher J. Wiernicki and be based in the society’s headquarters in Houston.

Grove, a 28-year veteran of ABS, has served as President and COO of three

ABS operating divisions – Europe, Pa- cific and Americas. He also has extensive experience in the offshore sector having served as Director, Energy Project De- velopment and Manager, Offshore Engi- neering.

Mustang Survival’s New CEO

Mustang Survival completed its execu- tive management succession , first an- nounced in October 2009, with the goal to successfully realign key executive roles and operation teams by January 2011. As of January 1, 2011, Bob Askew, former Mustang Survival President and

CEO. will become Mustang’s Chairman to its newly formed Advisory Board, and

Jim Hartt, former Mustang Survival

Chief Operating Officer, will become

Mustang’s CEO.

Buchner is MARIN’s New President

Incoming president Buchner (left), and outgoing president Hubregtse.

As of January 1, 2011, Bas Buchner is president of the Maritime Research Insti- tute Netherlands (MARIN). He’s taken over the helm from Arne Hubregtse, who stood down to become general director of the heavy lift shipping company Biglift.

Buchner:

Nordic Tankers, WOMAR establish “Nordic Womar” JV

Nordic Tankers A/S and WOMAR Lo- gistics Pte. Ltd. have reached an agree- ment to establish a jointly owned independent pool management company with the name of “Nordic Womar”.

Nordic Womar will initially manage two pools of coated chemical tankers with a total of approximately 40 vessels in the 10,000 to 25,000 deadweight tonnes (dwt) segment.. Tommy Thomsen will be

Chairman of the Board and Hans van der

Zijde will be CEO in Nordic Womar. The company will be managed out of Singa- pore and will commence operations 1

February 2011.

Newbury Joins STX Canada

STX Canada Ma- rine is said that Scott

Newbury joined their team in January. He an authority in physi- cal model testing in ice having conducted research into the in- teraction loads imposed on ship propeller and shafting systems and carried out full- scale ship trials in ice in the Antarctic.

Nickless VP Crowley Finance & Plan- ning, Shipping & Logistics

Crowley Maritime said that David

Nickless has been promoted to vice pres- ident of finance and planning for Crow- ley's shipping and logistics business line.

He will remain in the company's Jack- sonville office and report to Steve Collar, senior vice president and general man- ager, logistics.

Gilliam VP Crowley Sales &

Chartering, Petroleum Services

Crowley Maritime said that Tucker

Gilliam has been pro- moted to vice presi- dent of sales and chartering for Crow- ley's petroleum serv- ices team. He will remain in the company's Jacksonville of- fice and report to Rob Grune, senior vice president and general manager, petro- leum services.

Tidewater Selects ABS NS

ABS Nautical Systems was selected by

Tidewater Inc. to trial its fleet manage- ment software. With this partnership,

ABS Nautical Systems intends to be- come Tidewater’s global fleet manage- ment software provider. Tidewater would be replacing an internal system with ABS

Nautical Systems’ fully integrated soft- ware suite to help manage its principal operational functions including mainte- nance, vessel-initiated requisitions and relevant regulatory requirements. Tide- water will implement several modules from ABS Nautical Systems’ software suite NS5, including Maintenance & Re- pair, Drydocking, On Demand Reporting and Web Based Vessel Drawings, to name a few, as well as interfaces to its current and future ERP solutions. Fol- lowing a successful Pilot Phase, the mod- ules will be installed in a phased approach on approximately 185 of Tide- water’s vessels over the next 24 months.

Paxocean Orders Two Rolls-Royce

Designed Vessels

Rolls-Royce announced an order from

Singapore-based offshore company, Pax-

Ocean, to provide the ship design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for two platform supply vessels. The order is worth over $19.1m to Rolls-

Royce with additional options to con- struct a further four vessels of the same type. The UT 755 CD will be built at Pax-

Ocean Engineering’s offshore vessel shipyard in Zhuhai, China, with delivery due in 2012.

MAN PrimeServ’s Breakthrough

Nakilat’s fleet of LNG ships is now covered by MAN PrimeServ, MAN

Diesel & Turbo’s after-sales division, after an EMC maintenance agreement signed with STASCO – the shipping di- vision of Royal Dutch Shell – which manages the Nakilat ships. The contract

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