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April 2012www.marinelink.com 87USCG Third Mates License, Mr. Cooke is also a Lieutenant with the NYFD.Thome Offshore Bolsters Management Thome Offshore Management (TOM) and Thome Oil & Gas (TOG) appointed John A. Sydness, as Managing Director for Thome Offshore and Thome Oil & Gas. He was previously Managing Di- rector of TOG and prior to that he worked for major international compa- nies in the offshore services and energy industries. He takes over from Claes Eek Thorstensen, who is moving into a group role in TSMI ? the holding company of the Thome Group of companies. Claes will be supporting the development of all companies including commercial andmarketing activities. In addition Thome Offshore announce dthe internal promotion of:?Paul Schaab appointed to General Manager, Offshore Fleet. ?Manfred Mueller appointed as Gen- eral Manager, Commercial, Thome Offshore. ?Cynthia Surin Harris appointed as the Finance Manager of Thome Offshore and Thome Oil & Gas. ?Gaurav Gupta, a new hire, joins as the new Head of Marine HR, Thome Off- shore and Thome Oil & Gas. Imtech Marine wins Netuba Turkey Trade Award Imtech Marine received the Nether- lands Turkey Trade Award 2012. The award was handed over to Terry van Velzen, Business development director of Imtech Marine, by the Turkish Am- bassador, His Excellency Ugur Dogan in the city hall of Rotterdam. The award is granted every two years, to a company or person who has remarkably contributed to the trade and/or investment relation between Holland and Turkey. Grawe to Head Business Division at Voith On March 1, 2012, Matthias Grawe (52) took over at the helm of the Division Industry at Voith Turbo. The graduate en- gineer has been working for Voith Turbo for 10 years, most recently as Head ofthe Product Group Variable-Speed Drives at the location Crailsheim. Stewart Group Starts Specialist Subsea and Renewables UnitInternational shipbroker, The Stewart Group, added depth with the appoint-ment of Michael Braid to launch its spe-cialist subsea and renewables business. As part of the RS Platou ASA Group, The Stewart Group uses a network of 390 professionals with a track record ofglobal commercial delivery and time- critical market analysis in the ship- broking industry. The company has now added subsea and renewables capability and is active in the following sectors: subsea construction/pipelay; diving sup- port; IMR and ROV support; decommis- sioning; well intervention/well stimulation; cable installation and main-tenance; offshore renewable energy; seis- mic survey/seabed logging; trenching and ploughing support.Irish Ferries Appoints Sheen Operations Director Andrew Sheen has been appointed Op- erations Director, Irish Ferries. A former engineer on the companys fast ferry Jonathan Swift, Mr. Sheen joined Irish Ferries from the UKs Maritime and Coastguard Agency having served as Technical Performance Manager, Engi- neer and Ship Surveyor. A B.Eng (Hons), M.Sc and Chartered Engineer, he will be accountable for Irish Ferriesships safety and operations, all port ter- minals within the companys network and costs associated with the companys operations in Ireland, Britain and France.From Liverpool, he succeeds Mr. John Reilly who has retired from the company after many years of service. ABB Wins $60m Propulsion Order ABB won a $60m order to provide complete power and propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to be built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. at its shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan, for Ger- manys AIDA. Both 125,000 ton, 3,250- passenger cruise ships are scheduled fordelivery in March 2015 and March 2016. ABB will supply complete electrical sys-tems for both ships; including genera- tors, and transformers for propulsion,engine room and distribution, frequency converters, bow thruster motors, and other related power system equipment, as well as its latest generation Azipod XO propulsion systems. NAUTIS Simulator Delivered to Taiwan VSTEP, in cooperation with its distrib- uting partner Shipbridge, delivered and installed a NAUTIS desktop simulator at the National Taiwan Ocean University in Keelung, Taiwan. The Ocean University is a leading institute for maritime educa-tion and oceanographic studies in Tai- wan. It also harbors the department of merchant marine and the department ofshipping & transportation management.The simulator will be used to train uni-versity maritime students and maritime professionals in shiphandling and ma-neuvering. NAUTIS is a new range of advanced DNV certified maritime train- ing simulators for training maritime pro-fessionals, officers and crews. http://www.nautissim.com WTS Appoints Bannerman Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions strengthened its senior managementteam with the appointment of PhilipBannerman as Vice President, Americas Region. Bannerman has been with the Wilh. Wilhelmsen Group since 1997 in a number of sales and marketing roles, most recently as Regional Sales Director of Wilhelmsen Ships Service in the Americas.Resolve Maritime Academy Opens Resolve Maritime Academy (Acad- emy) opened its new Simulation Train- ing Center on Monday, March 12 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA facility adjacent to Port Everglades. The state-of-the-art, 7000 sq. ft. facility will provide leading edge simulation-based training programsto enhance safe navigation at sea for cruise line and commercial shipping per- sonnel and other maritime professionals worldwide. The Academy designed and developed the $6.5 million Simulation Training Center which features a Class A Full Mission Bridge Simulator with fullyfunctional attached Bridge Wing with in- dependent visual system, ElectronicChart Display & Information System(ECDIS) Classroom and Navigation Lab with a suite of advanced mini? bridges. The Academys unique curriculum uti- lizes state-of-the-art simulation technol-ogy and will initially include: Ship Handling; Bridge Resource Management(BRM); Operational Use of ECDIS; andRADAR/Automatic Radar Planning Aids (ARPA) programs. Customized programs also will be offered, including: Integrated Bridge Systems (Sperry Vi- sionMaster and NACOS Platinum); Dy- namic Positioning Systems; andCommunication & Leadership Develop- ment for all ranks and employees. Future plans include an Engine Room Simula-tor for operational and Engine ResourceManagement (ERM) training.www.resolvemarine.com BAE Systems, Moran Iron Works Join Forces BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards and Moran Iron Works, Inc. signed a teaming agreement in order to collaborate on thepursuit of plate steel fabrication projects for industrial plant customers. Together they will serve customers throughout the northern and southern regions of central and eastern North America. Moran Iron Works, Inc. is a dynamic Kleivdal to Head NSA The CEO of Color Line AS, Mr Trond Kleivdal (48), has been elected as thenew president of the Norwegian Shipown- ers' Association (NSA). "The maritime in-dustry is dynamic and innovative, and akey value-generating component of theglobal economy. The maritime cluster has substantial inherent future growth po- tential. We are constantly searching out new, better and sustainable solutions, and this has made us a competitive cen-tre of expertise, with a drive to innovate, and with global impact and attractivepower", says newly-elected NSA presi- dent Mr Trond Kleivdal. The new presi- dent stresses that, over the generations, the maritime industry has demonstrateda great ability to navigate through diffi- cult times. "Norwegian shipping compa-nies, shipowners and seafarers have always been able to spot new marketsand opportunities. This has made the country's maritime industry a world-leader, not just at sea, but now also in and under the sea. Over the years, manypeople have written off Norway as a mar- itime superpower, but they've always been proved wrong. The maritime indus- try is one of Norways most valuable "re- newable" resources. The shipping companies are at the heart of an activity with a workforce of 100,000, creating NOK 130 billion of value each year", saysKleivdal. Kleivdal has been a member ofthe NSA Board since 2002. He has held a number of executive posts at ColorLine and, since 2001, has been the com-pany's CEO and Managing Director. Color Line AS is Norway's largest and one of Europe's leading cruise and transport shipping companies. The company's fleet of six ships carrymore than 4.3 million passengers and 170,000 freight vehicles a year. The company operates four internationalroutes between seven ports in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Color Line employs 3,000 people in four coun-tries, 2,300 of them at sea. Annualturnover is approximately NOK 4.7B.