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86Maritime Reporter & Engineering News NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES PederstadFinchGartshore SydnessSheenImtech Wins Pederstad Named Nor-Shipping Director Nor-Shipping announced that Vidar Pederstad has taken on the role of Nor- Shipping Director. He has been a mar- keting and PR consultant to four Nor-Shipping event weeks over eight years, and was also a founding member of the Nor-Shipping Advisory Board. His key contributions during this period include the establishment of the high-pro-file Nor-Shipping conferences, which have greatly contributed to Nor-Ship- pings position as a world-class meeting place for the industry, and Nor-Shipping Campus, a valuable branding initiative for the Norwegian maritime industry. Nor-Shipping veteran Tollef Schiander is now Exhibition Director. GL Garrad Hassan: FinchNew Business Development Manager GL Garrad Hassan appointed Ian Finchas its new Business Development Man- ager in the UK. He will be responsible formanaging sales and business develop- ment activities for the GL Group with a special focus on offshore wind. He will work closely with Christoph Thiel, the newly appointed Head of Business De- velopment and Sales for GL Garrad Has- san and Colin Morgan, who leads the Group's Offshore Wind Practice. Pharos Offshore Names Gartshore CTO Pharos Offshore Group announced the addition of Scott Gartshore as ChiefTechnical Officer (CTO) to the executive team. Gartshores previous roles include Project Manager and Senior Engineer, as well as Trenching Systems Sales Man- ager at IHC Engineering Business Ltd. XL Expands Brown Water Business XL Group plcs North American Ma- rine business has boosted its underwrit- ing expertise with the addition of Chris Cooke who has joined as Vice President, Hull and Liabilities. According to Richard DeSimone, President of XLGroups North American Marine busi- ness, We are very pleased to have Chris join our team as we look to expand our Brown Water Hull, P&I and Primary Ma- rine Liability capabilities. XL has long been a market leader in Excess Marine Liabilities, and we believe that extending our reach into these lines of business will help us address more of our clients cov- erage needs.? Cooke previously worked at Travelers, where he was the National Hull and Liabilities Practice Leader. Among his primary responsibilities were the development of policy forms, under- writing manuals, procedures, and initia-tives to drive growth in Hull, P&I, Marine Liabilities, Marine ProfessionalLiability and Excess Liabilities. Hestarted his career with MOAC/Continen- tal where he worked in both field and Home Office positions in the Hull & Li- abilities and Excess departments. He alsoran the Marine Department in HongKong for two years working with MOAC/Continental-owned Lombard General Insurance. A graduate of SUNY Maritime College, where he earned a U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray La- Hood announced last month $10 millionin grants to 15 small shipyards through- out the U.S. to pay for modernizations.The U.S Maritime Administrations (MARAD) Small Shipyard Grants Program is designed to provide equipment and technical skills training for the workforce. MARAD received 141 grant applications requesting $123 million in assistance. A detailed list of grantees is as follows:?Allen Marine, Inc. (Sitka, Alaska) willuse a $163,500 grant to purchase a Welding Fume and Particulate Extraction System needed to meet OccupationalSafety and Health Administration require- ments for air changes per minute and tomaintain the proper environment for alu- minum welding operations. ?Bludworth Marine, LLC (Houston,Texas) - will use a $610,266 grant to pur- chase a rubber tire gantry crane to lift and transport barges, large modules, and materials throughout the yard. ?Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport (Lock- port, Louisiana) - will use a $188,887 grant to purchase a robotic plasma pipe- cutting machine for fast and accuratepipe cutting, a big top tent structure to protect a vessel structure from the envi- ronment and to protect the environment from contaminants, and an induction heat- ing distortion control system to reduce plate deflection and distortion. ?Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corpora- tion (Salisbury, Maryland) - will use a $423,752 grant to purchase air compres- sors, personnel lifts, and a mobile grit re- covery system to remove blasting grit from buildings and outfitting areas. In ad- dition, the company will implement across training program to improve skill sets and utilize existing workforce more efficiently. ?Conrad Shipyard, LLC (Amelia,Louisiana) - will use a $1,117,019 grantfor drydock modernization and upgradeto expand their 280-foot 10,000-ton float-ing drydock by 2,500 tons in capacityand 70 feet in length.?Detyens Shipyards, Inc. (Charleston,South Carolina) - will use a $1,176,776 grant to purchase two 20-ton tower cranes that will be set at both ends of anexisting drydock to facilitate increased and safer service to the drydock.?Foss Maritime Company , Foss Seat-tle Shipyard (Seattle, Washington) - will use a $578,402 grant to purchase two 45-foot manlifts, a 14,000 CFM dust col-lection system to allow the yard to blast and paint without contaminating the at-mosphere, a 3-ton forklift, and shelters for additional work overflow. ?Duclos Corporation DBA Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding (Somerset, Massa-chusetts) - will use a $389,195 grant tofund shipyard infrastructure upgrades. ?Gulf Marine Repair Corporation (Tampa, Florida) will use a $1,083,055 grant to modernize and upgrade their14,000-ton drydock.?Kvichak Marine Industries (Seattle,Washington) - will use a $987,307 grant to purchase a water-jet cutting table to cut and bevel ferrous and non-ferrous plates, a hydraulic swing beam shear foraccurate cutting in place of skill saws andband saws, lighting enhancements, a jibcrane column replacement, and welding equipment. In addition, the grant will funda training program in boatbuilding skills. ?LEEVAC Shipyards, LLC (Jennings,Louisiana) - will use a $667,324 grant topurchase a pipe and tube bending system that will bend pipes to the correct geome- try required, eliminating the need to weld pipe sections by hand.?Liquid Waste Technology , LLC (NewRichmond, Wisconsin) - will use a $558,843 grant to purchase two forklifts, a 50-ton rubber tire gantry crane for transporting dredges and modules throughout the yard, and a training simu- lator room with two computers and soft- ware. ?Navatek Ship Construction (Hon-olulu, Hawaii) - will use a $248,805 grantto purchase wind turbines and towers that will provide clean renewable electri- cal service to the yard. ?The Great Lakes Towing Company DBA Great Lakes Shipyard (Cleveland,Ohio) - will use a $1,068,474 grant topurchase lighting, a burn table for auto- matic cutting, a scissor lift, weldingequipment, scaffolding, a high pressure lifting skid to lift and move heavy compo-nents, boom lift, generator, and a self- propelled transporter to move vessels and modules throughout the yard. ?Trinity Industries, Inc. (Caruthersville, Missouri) - will use a$718,395 grant to purchase a one-side welding system that will fabricate stiff- ened panels using a butt-welding station,a stiffener fitting station and a stiffener welding station.15 Small U.S. Shipyards Receive Grant Money ABB Azipod Order = $60m