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PEOPLE & COMPANIES

WRI

The Swedish Club

PPG

Survitec

The Swedish Club

Renk

Bizzarro Lim Sim Keat

Holliday Kromli Wilkinson Hammel ? ed maritime meteorologist with close Österreich AG. Hammel will succeed The prize in the category “Safer” and to 20 years experience in the maritime Ulrich Sauter on August 1, 2015, who 1,000 Euros went to Alexander Iley from industry. will be leaving the company on July 31 the University of Southampton in Eng- for health reasons after almost 20 years land. Iley won the award for his third-

PPG Appoints Holliday on the executive board. Sauter will still year thesis “Embarkation Modeling

PPG Protective & Marine Coatings assist RENK in an advisory capacity for for Improved Lifeboat Design”, which (PMC) has appointed Richard Holliday a transition period. demonstrates how modern simulation as Global Director - Hydrocarbon PFP technology can make cruise ships safer (HC-PFP) succeeding Paul Greigger Cargomatic Hires Whiteley as COO by considering realistic variations of sce-

Gladding-Hearn who has retired after 36 years of service. Cargomatic announced that technol- narios.

ogy executive Sean Whiteley has joined Eva Herradón de Grado’s paper “Pre-

Gladding-Hearn Delivers 400th Vessel

Swedish Club Names New CFO the company as chief operating of? cer. dicting Added Resistance in Wind and Cape Fear Pilots Association of South-

Waves employing Arti? cial Neural port, N.C. has taken delivery of its sec-

The Swedish Club announced the ap- Whiteley will be charged with oversee-

Nets” won the award in the category ond St. John’s Class pilot boat from pointment of a new Chief Financial Of- ing operations, sales and marketing ef- ? cer, Mikael Kromli, who will take up forts for Cargomatic as it continues “Smarter” and 1,000 Euros. The master’s

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos the position on June 15, 2015 and will its mission to transform local trucking student at the Polytechnic University of Corporation. This vessel marks the Som-

Madrid prepared her winning paper for erset, Mass. shipyard’s 400th boat built be based in Gothenburg. The Swedish through its mobile technology. an international conference. Wind and since its founding 1955. The new all-

Clubalso welcomed the election of Lim RigNet Names VP Global Ops, TSI waves slow vessels down and increase aluminum launch, an updated version of

Sim Keat, Managing Director of the RigNet, Inc. announced that Keith Stew-

Dry Transport Logistics Division of the art has been promoted to the new posi- their fuel consumption. Therefore, Her- the pilot’s ? rst St. John’s Class delivered radón de Grado’s approach holds great in 2001, features a deep-V hull designed

Singapore-based IMC Shipping Co. Pte, tion of Vice President – Global Opera- onto the Swedish Club board. tions, RigNet TSI, based in Aberdeen, potential for improving methods to bet- by C. Raymond Hunt Associates. It ter quantify this effect during the early measures 52 feet overall, with a 17-foot

Scotland.

Survitec Names Wilkinson MD stages of ship design.

beam and a 4.8-foot draft. It is powered The award in the category “Greener” by twin Caterpillar C-18 diesel engines,

Survitec Group appointed Ross Wilkin- Bay Diesel Names Bratton GM son as Managing Director of the Group’s David Bratton has been promoted to and 1,000 Euros went to Damien Du- each producing 479 Bhp at 1,800 rpm.

U.K. Services and Distribution business.

general manager of diesel engine sales casse, who won it for his master’s thesis Top speed is 23 knots. Each EPA Tier “Theoretical and Numerical Analysis of 3-rated engine turns a ? ve-blade Ni-Br- and repair specialist Bay Diesel & Gen-

Hammel Named to RENK Executive erator in Richmond, Va.

Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Al propeller via a Twin Disc EC-300

Board; Sauter Steps Down

Devices”. His simulations show how a Quick Shift gear box. A Northern Lights

RENK AG’s supervisory board has ap- DNV GL Presents Award for so-called attenuator-type wave energy diesel generator provides 9kW of electri- converter, which is made of 40 water cal output.

pointed Christian Hammel as execu- Young Professionals tive board member for production and DNV GL rewarded three engineers for column (OWC) chambers, could be opti- mized to increase each chamber’s energy Stevens to Study Shipping administration. Hammel is currently a their scienti? c research at Nor-Ship- member of the executive board respon- ping, presenting them with the DNV GL absorption – making the device much Containers’ Invasive Species sible for ? nance at MAN Truck & Bus Award for Young Professionals. more ef? cient.

Stevens Institute of Technology research-

ABS to Class Baoham Offshore Newbuild Semisub

Baoham Offshore (HK) Ltd. has selected ABS to provide classi? ca- tion services for newbuilds in China. The GM-4E mid-water semisub- mersible drilling unit will have both an eight-point mooring system and Class 3 dynamic positioning and will feature a variable deck load that exceeds 4,000 metric tons. The GM-J1450 has a water depth ca- pability of 80 m (~260 ft) and will be equipped with a 400-metric-ton deck crane. Hydraquip Custom Systems Inc., which has produced more than 100 jacking systems over the past two decades, will pro- vide the jacking system for the liftboat, while Gulf Offshore Pte Ltd. will provide detail engineering and production design.

This artist’s rendering shows the three units that will make up the Baoham