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June 2012www.marinelink.com 79LaskerTroy AzimovaFoye & CranstonDamen Shipyards Group Camarena Troy Container Line Promotes Three Troy Container Line Ltd. appointed three key personnel to management posi- tions. Svetlana Azimova has been named Assistant Vice President of Troy Con- tainer Line?s Freight Cashier Depart- ment; Jonathan Lasker has been appointed Assistant Vice President of the company?s Import Department; and Michael C. Troy II is now the Global Ac- count Manager of Troy Container Line?s Sales Department. Officials Visit Bayonne Dry Dock Bayonne Dry Dock and Repair Corpo- ration President Michael Cranston held apress conference on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, on the top side of Bayonne DryDock, to highlight the economic and en-vironmental punch of the dry dockingbusiness on the Port of New York and New Jersey and its positive impacts on homeland security. Following the press conference, Cranston led a tour of the fa- cility where the U.S.N.S. Watson, a mil- itary ship that carries supplies to troopsoverseas, is currently undergoing repairs. Attending the press conference and tourwere Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Executive Director Patrick Foye, Michael Van Wagner, Acting Executive Director - Business Action Center, Office of Governor Christie, Al Coutinho, As- semblyman for NJ Legislative District 29 and Chair - Commerce and EconomicDevelopment Committee, Tom Bracken, President ? New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Maria Nieves, President and CEO - Hudson County Chamber of Com-merce, Elizabeth (Bette) Spinelli, Exec- utive Director - Hudson County Development Corporation, Jerry Keenan, Executive Vice President - NJ Alliance for Action along with employees of Bay- onne Dry Dock and members of the com-munity. HAL Taps Camarena For Fleet Post Lance Camarena joined Holland Amer- ica Line and Seabourn as director, fleet training and performance management.He is responsible for the fleet trainingprogram of deck and engine staff, per- formance management and developing technology solutions that support fleetperformance. Camarena will oversee the deck and engine fleet training team andreport to Michiel Versteeg, director, safety and environmental compliance. Camarena previously spent 14 years with Holland America Line from 1995 to 2009. During this tenure, he developed the first corporate-wide leadership train- ing program, upgraded the original SSJakarta to the ms Nieuw Jakarta trainingcenter in Indonesia and established theManila Training Center in the Philip- pines. Rolls-Royce Wins Turkish Navy Contract Rolls-Royce won an order to supply propulsion equipment for three new ships commissioned by the Turkish Navy. Is- tanbul Shipyard will design and build one Submarine Rescue Mother Ship (MO-SHIP) and two Rescue and Towing Ships at their yard in Tuzla. Rolls-Royce will supply tunnel thrusters and retractablethrusters for all three vessels. In addition Rolls-Royce Azipull main propulsion thrusters will be supplied for the MO-SHIP. This is the first order for thrusters that Rolls-Royce has received from the Turkish Navy, which is planning a sig- nificant ship building program in the coming years. Damen Shipyards acquires Swedish Yard On May 16, 2012 Dutch shipbuilding and repair company Damen Shipyards Group has taken over the shares of Swedish ship repair and maintenanceyard Oskarshamnsvarvet in Oskarshamn. The acquisition was prepared in close co- operation with the owners and includes the full continuation of the repair yard,both as to current operations and person- nel. Oskarshamnsvarvet is a ship repair yard on the south-east coast of Sweden. Itis specialized in the maintenance and re-pair of vessels up to 80 m and has built, repaired and maintained a substantial partof the Swedish coastal fleet since 1863. Apart from a floating dock, the com-pany operates a slipway covered by a portal crane of 100 tons. In addition toshiprepair the company is active in in- dustrial activities. MR June12 # 10 (74-80):MR Template 6/12/2012 10:28 AM Page 79