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NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES Danaos Appoints Chatzis as CFOContainership owner Danaos Corpora- tion appointed Evangelos Chatzis to the position of Chief Financial Officer, ef- fective July 22, 2011. Chatzis has more than 16 years of experience in corporate finance and the shipping industry and has been with Danaos since early 2005 wherehe has served as Treasurer and Deputy Chief Financial Officer. He holds a Bach- elor of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics,a Master's of Science degree in Shipping & Finance from City University Cass Business School, as well as a post-grad-uate diploma in Shipping Risk Manage-ment from IMD Business School.Toohey Tapped to Lead WCI Mike Toohey was selected to become President and CEO of Waterways Coun- cil, Inc. With more than 30 years of fed- eral government expertise, Toohey most recently served as Consultant with The Livingston Group?s Transportation, Ship- building, Shipping and Ports practice area. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Government Affairs for Ash- land Inc. ACL Makes Management ChangesAmerican Commercial Lines (ACL) has relocated Bill Braman, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer ? Transportation Services, to Harahan, LA, where he will lead the field implementa- tion of ACL?S new operating plan and scheduled service platform. ACL also appointed Mario Munoz to the positionof Vice President Business Development and Marketing. Finally, ACL appointed Bill Foster to the position of Vice Presi- dent Maintenance. Roden Joins Fairbanks Morse Engine Fairbanks Morse Engine, an EnPro In-dustries company, announced that Paul Roden has joined thecompany as Vice President, Washing- ton Operations. Inthis new role he will represent the company in discussions with Congress and with shipyards, as well as customers in the Departments ofDefense and Homeland Security. Roden joins Fairbanks Morse Engine from the U.S. Coast Guard, where he retired withthe rank of Captain following a distin- guished service career. His most recent assignment was Chief of the Office of Naval Engineering at USCG headquar- ters, where he was responsible for naval engineering support to all Coast Guardcutters and boats, including policy devel- opment, budget execution, training, com- petency standards, and organizational alignment.Fernie Appointed at Lloyd?s Register James D. Ferniehas been appointedto the position ofBusiness Develop- ment Manager, Gulf Coast area forLloyd?s Register North America, Inc., based in Houston.James has held senior positions withConocoPhillips, BG LNG Services andMarathon Oil, and will be instrumentalin developing opportunities in the LNG sector. He has also worked extensively with the US Coast Guard.Deterding Promoted by Donjon Donjon Marine named that Paul Deter- ding General Manager of Donjon Ship-building and Repair, LLC, located in Erie, PA. Deterding will oversee the daily operations of the facility, including production, engineering, plant mainte-nance and administrative duties. IHC Merwede, BAE Systems Team to Serve US OSV Market IHC Merwede and BAE Systems en- tered last month into a cooperation agree-ment to meet the demands of the offshore construction vessel market in the U.S. The cooperation is part of IHC Merwedestrategic internationalization plan, giving it entrance into new markets. For BAE Systems, it is designed to allow the com- pany to increase vessel new construction in its commercially focused shipyards. According to the agreement, IHC Mer- wede, as a main contractor, will be re- sponsible for the design and build of the vessels. Its Houston office, IHC Mer- wede America Corp. will be responsible for the sales and business development activities. BAE Systems will provide the production facilities for IHC Merwede at its shipyards in Mobile, Ala., and Jack- sonville, Fla. The former offers direct ac- cess to and from the Gulf of Mexico and major shipping lanes. The 432-acre site is renowned for ship repairs and conver- sions. DryShips Acquires OceanFreight Inc. DryShips Inc. and OceanFreight Inc.entered into a definitive agreement for DryShips to acquire the outstandingshares of OceanFreight for considerationper share of $19.85, consisting of $11.25in cash and 0.52326 of a share of com-50Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Jones Celebrates 100thon the Ship Canal Len Jones was born in 1911, the coronation year of King George V and the year the Titanic was launched at Harland & Woolf in Belfast. During his lifetime there have been four British monarchs, 19 Prime Ministers, two World Wars and the break up of the British Empire. Women have won the vote, man has landed on the Moon and the world has seen the invention of television, computers, the internet, mobile phones and SatNavs. Len celebrated his 100th birthday with a special trip on the Manchester Ship Canal, where he spent his working life of almost 50 years and retired as deputy general manager. The trip was arranged by Peel Ports, the owner and operator of the Manchester Ship Canal as a way of cel- ebrating Len?s birthday and thanking him for his dedicated service. Recently he was joined by former colleagues and current Manchester Ship Canal general manager Dean Hammond on board the tug ?TheViceroy.? Jones sailed from QEII dock at Ellesmere Port, which he was involved in the design and construction of in the early 1950s, and travelled up the Ship Canal to Port Ince before returning to Eastham Locks. He joined the Manchester Ship Canal Company as a 15-year-old in June 1927, and apart from four years in the late 1930s, he worked for the Ship Canal Company until he retired in July 1975. During that time he served as chief draughtsman, principal assistant engineer and deputy chief engi- neer, a post he held for the last four years of his working life. Len is still fit and healthy, being a regu- lar user of a local gym near his Wilmslow, Cheshire home. Len Jones (2nd left) at QEII Dock with (l-r) former col-leagues Jim Cordiner, David Ogilvie, Ray Howells and cur- rent Ship Canal general manager Dean Hammond. Readman Retires After 40 Years On July 22, Luke Readman, Chair- man of Thomas Miller P&I Ltd, re-tired after nearlyforty years of serv-ice to the Membersof the UK P&IClub. He hands over leadership to current chief execu- tive Hugo Wynn-Williams, who will be supported by deputy chairman NigelCarden. Readman is renowned in the P&I industry as an oil pollution spe-cialist after handling major claims forthe UK Club such as the 230,000dwtVLCC Haven, which caught fire and sank off Genoa in 1991. The case was finally resolved by a tri-partite settle- ment agreement between the ItalianState, the IOPC Fund and the Own-ers/Club. Following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, he was heav- ily involved on behalf of the Interna- tional Group of P&I Clubs in theprotracted process of implementation ofthe US Oil Pollution Act 1990. The lengthy saga of Certificates of Financial Responsibility (COFRs) under OPA 90 culminated in 1996 with the creation ofthe Shipowners Insurance and Guaranty Company (SIGCo) of which he was one of the chief architects. SIGCo now pro- vides COFR guaranties for about two thirds of the ships trading to the US.A barrister and Oxford classics grad-uate, Readman joined Thomas Miller in 1971. 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