Maritime Reporter, January 2011

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MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS Legal Beat Security Update Maritime Terrorism Training & Education Diving Deep with SeaPerch The Electric Ship Energized to Update Standards Five Minutes With Roberto Monteiro,OSX Shipbuilding Navy Edition Spending Plans, Project TABLE OF CONTENTS FIVE MINUTES WITH OSX SHIPBUILDING’S CFO FEATURE SHIP LEGAL BEAT INTERNATIONAL NAVIES THE ELECTRIC SHIP WRITERS DeSimone, Bryant, Noot INSURANCE GOVERNMENT UPDATE INTERNATIONAL NAVIES NEW YORK MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS PUBLISHERS Associate Publisher & Editor PRODUCTION Technology Services CIRCULATION SALES Vice President of Sales & Marketing Advertising Sales Managers National Sales Manager Jack Bond Lucia Annunziata Dawn Trauthwein Tristan McDermott Mike Kozlowski Terry Breese SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION PROJECT PROFILE DOCKWISE AND THE KONIAMBO PROJECT Dockwise Delivers for Koniambo Project Frank Berrens EDITOR’S NOTE Business Publications MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS ON THE COVER by Claudio Paschoa Roberto Monteiro CFO, OSX Shipbuilding, Chartering & Offshore Services Höegh LNG’s President and Chief GDF Suez Cape Ann and GDF Suez LNG’s Chief Operations Officer, Dual Fuel Concept Emissions Reduction Strengthened Tanks The GDF Suez Cape Ann and GDF NEWS VESSELS Green Focus for Höegh LNG SRVs Donjon Shipbuilding Floats Tug in Presque Isle Bay Shaver Shipdocking Tug New Wind Farm Support NEWS NAVY SAIC Wins Navy AUSV Deal Science Applications International Advanced Research Projects Agency New Energy Saving Bow Design Japan’s Shin-Kurushima Dockyard Supply Chain Management, Nissan Admiral Gary Roughead Floating Production dem with four Azipod Signal Completes Mobile Yard Renovations Disney Dream Delivered Cover Use of Doublers in Repair Steel Ship Structure Repair Doubler Real-World Consequences COLUMN Shifting Risk To the Parties at Fault FINANCE & INSURANCE About the Author COLUMN GOVERNMENT UPDATE US Maritime Administration (MARAD) Maritime Terrorism About the Author Regulatory Consulting, Gainesville, FL Customs and Border Protection Congressional Action Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act and Build American Requirements Offshore Operations in the Exclusive Economic Zone Jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Plan, COLUMN LEGAL BEAT About the Author The Jones Act Emerson Bearing Delivers for Guam Shipyard c Bernsau Boston Business Journal) By Jurrien Noot Plan Orion Proyecto Faro Patrullero de Zona Economica Exclusiva and Nodriza Londono PAFP Heavy River Patrol Boat EMAF Riverine Support Mobile Station Program Midnight Express Interceptor Craft Program FEATURE NAVY Colombia Defense Budget OFFERS A COMPLETE LINE OF Comark’s Victory-HD Large Screen Displays Konrad Enjoys Overseas Success with Stern Drives By Jurrien Noot the Parliamentary Defense Committee in March FEATURE NAVY Budgets Rising Steadily Ship/Long Range Submarine Support Auxiliary Rescue Ship/Nucleo Spa, to the Universities of Genua, Trieste, By Edward Lundquist FEATURE NAVY United States Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle The Military Sealift Command High Navy Energetically Pursuing Efficiencies Status of the Navy Navy Personnel Ships, Submarines & Aircraft FEATURE NAVY By Jurrien Noot Defence Budget Elec Support System Improvements Destroyer (AWD) Program Alliance (Defense Materiel Organization, Combatant Vessel Craft Heavy Replacement Strategic Sealift Ship Watercraft Replacement Operations Support Capability Operations Support Capability Expenditure Expenditure to Estimate Guided Missile Frigate Upgrade Collins Class Submarine Reliability By Jurrien Noot Defense Industries (SSM) of the Turkish New Type Submarine Project Undersecretariat for Defense Industries Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors MILGEM Patrol and Antisubmarine Warfare Ship Construction of the lead unit Heybeliada Kilic II FAC(M) Program The German Mine Hunter Consortium, Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder Patrol Boat (Yeni Tip Karakol Botu Special Operations Boat Project FEATURE NAVY Modernization Underway By Jurrien Noot New Construction Projects Kobe Shipyard and the Mitsubishi Kobe Self Defense Force FEATURE TRAINING & EDUCATION By Edward Lundquist Envisioning Environmental Science and the Naval Academy Midshipmen, STEM Important for Navy, Nation FEATURE TRAINING & EDUCATION Coast Guard Authorization bill (HR the loss of both Congressman Oberstar Coming in February APU/Maritime Reporter WEBCAST Series MEBA’s Calhoon MEBA Engineering Maritime Professional Managing Editor From APU, Professor Donald McCay in as APU and the Maritime Reporter New Navigation Training Center Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine Bodin Maritime School’s New Engine Room Simulator Overhaul Energizes Houston Center SCI’s Houston Center for Maritime By Edward Lundquist Oversight Council for the DoD Electrical According to John Winbery of Winbery FEATURE THE ELECTRIC SHIP Engineers Energized to Update Electric Ship Standards DESIGN MISSION SYSTEMS CONSIDERATIONS Strategic Alliance Puts Retlif On West Coast EPD, Siemens Form Solutions Partnership Kittiwake Acquires Procal STX Finland, USC Enter JV for Arctic Shipbuilding Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the Finnish ST Marine Scores Austalian Navy Deal Saab to Deliver for India Submarine Rescue Mother Ship Emergency Intervention and Divers Training Boats General Directorate of Mineral Research for the Turkish Naval Forces Command New Head of Environment at WSS Gould Appointed ABS VP Alfa Laval Acquires Aalborg Industries Chemoil Acquires OceanConnect’s Marine Fuel Group MRG Acquires Cook Inlet Tug & Barge Automated Valve & Controls Doubles Size Delta Wave Teams with Global Rescue Hapag-Lloyd Orders Large Vessels Schottel Appoints Italian Sales Partner NEWS PEOPLE & COMPANIES Algae-X International Conditioners, Automated Fuel Polishing Systems, Mobile Tank Cleaning Units American Chemical Technologies, Inc Descr: Manufacturer Products: Non-Sheening, Synthetic Biodegradable American Clean Energy Systems American Sensor Technologies Barwil Unitor Ships Service Bio Gem Servics C.C.Jensen A/S Castrol Marine Chevron Global Lubricants Products: Chlor*Rid, Chlor*Wash, Chlor*Test, Chlor*Ion Meter Ecorr Systems, Division of Root International, Inc EnerTeck Chemical Corporation ESI Total Fuel Management Melinda Maas ExxonMobil Corporation Products: Lubricants, Fuels, Specialities, FuelTrax Marine Fuel Management Descr: Marine Systems Design and Manufacture Fuel Separation Technologies David Hawkins Leistritz Corporation Products: Fuel Oil and Lube Oil Pumps LQM Petroleum Services Inc Products: Seawater Lubricated Bearings Ohmsett, National Oil Spill Response Test Facility Mesaieed Industrial City Products: Oil Company SKF Maintenance Products Total Lubricants USA Inc Products: Marine, Automotive, Glass, Industrial Varna Products Tiffany McAchran TECHNICALPRODUCTS W&O’s FuelProof System Readily Biodegradable Stern Tube Oil and Merkel Freudenberg Fluidtechnik, Opacity Monitor Magnetic Patch Helps Save Nuke Waste Freighter Satellite Router BUYER’S DIRECTORY CHECK LINE CORROSION & WALL THICKNESS GAUGE Measuring Range WA THRU PAINT DATALOGGING UNDERWATER Shipyard: Nichols Boat Works, Greenville, MS Rosedale, MS Controllable Pitch Contact Us ADVERTISER INDEX MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS New President, CEO of Alfa Laval President and CEO of Alfa Laval Milgem Frigates to be Equipped with COMPAC