Marine Log - December 2008 - (Page 8) Update Berger resigns at HSH Nordbank In the wake of the global financial crisis, the CEO of the world’s largest provider of shipping finance has resigned. HSH Nordbank CEO Hans Berger (inset) handed in his resignation last month because, as he put it, “the management board failed to foresee the degree of intensity and duration of the crisis and the risks for the bank’s earnings that have come to light.” Berger said the bank would “post a negative result this year as a consequence of individual capital-market transactions and the general trend on capital markets.“ The company’s board was expected to ask Dr. Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher to take over management of the bank until further notice. Dr. Nonnenmacher has been a member of the management board as CFO since October 1, 2007. INLAND • COASTAL • OFFSHORE • DEEPSEA Austal ready to ramp up continued from p. 7 years, the JHSV will be capable of transporting troops and equipment, supporting humanitarian relief efforts, operating in shallow waters, and reaching speeds over 35 knots fully loaded. Austal USA is currently completing the U.S. Navy’s 127-meter Littoral Combat Ship Independence (LCS 2) for the U.S. Navy, as well as a 113-meter catamaran for Hawaii Superferry. Austal could be awarded a contract to build a second LCS in early 2009. Austal USA president and COO Joe Rella said the JHSV program would “provide steady-state employment for our workers for years to come.” Austal’s current workforce of 1,000 could grow to 1,500 when the program is in full swing. “This $1.6 billion award for 10 vessels is a testament to Alabama’s stellar workforce,” said Sen. Richard Shelby (RAla.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Besides the Westpac Express, the DOD has chartered the HSV-X1 Joint Venture, HSV-2 Swift, and TSV-1X Spearhead—all built by Incat Tasmania—for demonstration of high-speed vessel technologies and logistics support. Prime contractor Austal teamed with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, which will design, integrate, and test the ship’s electronic systems. Others competing for the JHSV Program included Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., Lockport, La. Bath, a unit of General Dynamics, had teamed with Rolls-Royce on a highspeed Roll-On/Roll-off vessel that would have been propelled by a diesel-gas turbine power plant and waterjets. Bollinger, meanwhile, had teamed with Australia’s Incat Tasmania on a wavepiercer catamaran design. EBDG DESIGNS SERIES OF HARLEY MARINE TANK BARGES arley Marine Services, Seattle, Wash., is keeping naval architectural firm Elliott Bay Design Group LLC (EBDG), Seattle, busy. EBDG is designing oil tank barges ranging in size from 31,500 to 83,000-barrel capacity for Harley Marine under a series of contracts that date back to Jan. 2007. EBDG has been contracted to supply designs for four 31,500 bbl barges and four 38,500 bbl tank vessels. In July 2007, HMS awarded the contract to EBDG for the design of a 66,000-barrel oil tank barge. In early 2008 HMS asked EBDG to mod- H ify this design, increasing the capacity to 83,000 barrels. The first of the designs built is the 279-foot, 38,500-barrel tank barge Dugan Pearsall (inset), which was launched on August 9 at Gunderson Marine in Portland, Ore. The first of the 31,500 bbl barges, the David Fanning, is currently under construction at US Barge in Portland, and is scheduled to be delivered this month. The 66,000 and 83,000- bbl designs are currently out to bid with an anticipated delivery in 2010. http://www.eagle.org
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