As the maritime business continues to extend range and convey extra ladies into its ranks, we wrap up 2022 for the third 12 months in a row by bringing to you our checklist of Top Women in Maritime.
Our editorial workforce has fastidiously chosen these 20 ladies of various backgrounds, ages and places with nominations given by these within the business. We requested them to inform us in regards to the successes they’re most pleased with of their maritime profession—whether or not it’s in shoreside administration, onboard a vessel, or in one other discipline.
While we had been solely capable of share a fraction of their unbelievable contributions to maritime in print article, we’re capable of publish the total interview with every girl right here.
Also, don’t overlook to have a look again at who gained final 12 months and in 2020.
Sara Fuentes, Vice President of Government Affairs, Transportation Institute Treasurer/Secretary, American Maritime Partnership
Fuentes oversees the efforts to teach stakeholders on the significance of a powerful U.S.- flagged maritime business for the Transportation Institute. As a part of this work, she serves as secretary/treasurer of the American Maritime Partnership. She additionally serves on the board of the Propeller Club-Port of Washington, D.C., and chairs the Regulatory Affairs Committee of the USA Maritime coalition.
Fuentes has 17 years of expertise within the maritime business, serving as employees vp of presidency and exterior affairs with the Navy League of the United States. In this place, she led the revitalization of the affiliation’s legislative affairs program and expanded the Navy League’s presence on Capitol Hill and with maritime stakeholders nationwide. She stays closely concerned within the Navy League, serving on the Merchant Marine Affairs Committee and the Legislative Affairs committee as a nationwide delegate. Before that, she was Legislative Administrator for ATK, an aerospace and protection firm.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
SF: The spotlight of my maritime profession has been serving to safe the Congressional Gold Medal for WWII Merchant Marine Veterans. It’s a trigger I’ve labored on all through my profession, from my days on the Navy League donating our “Write Congress” platform to America’s Merchant Marine Veterans for his or her letter-writing marketing campaign, to strolling across the Hill with theses WWII heroes, to a closing push of accumulating as many co-sponsors as attainable whereas working at Transportation Institute. We owe these heroes that sacrificed a lot for us our unwavering gratitude. It has at all times been rewarding to focus on the nationwide safety side of the U.S.-flag service provider marine, however nothing compares to watching these mariners lastly get the popularity they deserve.
I’m additionally proud to have been part of the BookWaves program. In partnership with the American Federation of Teachers, the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico, the Seafarers International Union, and our members TOTE Maritime and Crowley, we distributed hundreds of books to college students in Alaska and Puerto Rico when faculties had been closed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The lecturers picked out the books and faculties, they had been shipped without cost on Jones Act vessels, and distributed by mariners of the Seafarers International Union. Being capable of ship pleasure is what maritime is all about!
Annie Fisher, Senior Naval Architect & Marine Engineer, Bristol Harbor Group
Fisher attended the University of Michigan, the place she majored in aerospace engineering. In 2011, she spent a semester crusing from San Diego to Honolulu on a Sea Education Association crusing college vessel. When she returned, her aerospace advisor urged she change majors and walked her over the to the NA&ME Department. Fisher graduated in 2013, with a bachelors in naval structure and marine engineering and went on to work for Bristol Harbor Group Inc. (BHGI).
At BHGI, she has been concerned in a large assortment of tasks, starting from double hulling a gasoline oil barge servicing Martha’s Vineyard, changing a deckhouse on the crusing college vessel Tabor Boy, and lengthening the NASA barge PEGASUS to hold the brand new Artemis rockets.
In her present function as senior naval architect, she manages a number of design tasks and leads a workforce of engineers. Fisher is at present overseeing the Texas DOT Galveston-Bolivar Ferry in Louisiana and the brand new floating dry dock for Electric Boat, which can help the Columbia-Class Ballistic Submarines.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
AF: One of the issues I’m most pleased with over the course of my time at BHGI helps to create an setting the place younger engineers really feel snug asking questions and making errors. I feel it’s extremely vital for incoming engineers to have the liberty to assume via a drawing or calculation they’ve by no means carried out earlier than and provide you with a logical resolution, no matter whether or not it’s precisely the way in which it’s often carried out. I’m pleased with my function in fostering this tradition, and it’s rewarding to observe our youthful engineers achieve confidence.
Katherine “Karrie” Trauth, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Shipping & Maritime, Shell International Trading and Shipping Company
Since August 1 2021, Trauth has been chargeable for Shell’s worldwide delivery and maritime actions, together with ships, barges, drilling models, floating manufacturing services and associated operations. Her work spans Shell’s whole enterprise throughout upstream, downstream, tasks and development. She is a number one spokesperson on security and the setting, enhancing the effectivity of delivery and maritime operations, and driving know-how and innovation, together with digitalization and decarbonization. She can be a passionate advocate and champion of DEI and creating an built-in tradition of inclusion in Shell, and past.
Trauth joined Shell in 2012, initially as a venture supervisor in Houston, adopted by roles in London as supervisor and common supervisor of Shell’s Shipping & Maritime Technology and Innovation group globally earlier than assuming her final place as GM Shipping & Maritime Americas.
Trauth started her profession as a Surface Warfare Officer within the U.S. Navy, serving as one of many first group of girls assigned in fight ships. After finishing her naval service, she joined Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans because the Engineering Manager for R&D, starting a profession in ship design and development and in the end had duty for working a shipyard, delivering for the US Navy Zumwalt class destroyers.
Trauth has been honored by each the UK Everywoman program and the Society of Women Engineers for her efforts to extend gender steadiness in STEM fields and her contributions to know-how, innovation, and design.
She is an Advisory Council Member of American Bureau of Shipping and Chair of the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition. She can be a Supervisory Board member on the UK Chamber of Shipping and Co-Chair of their Shipping Defence Advisory Committee. She is a former Director of the Greater Houston Port Bureau, SIGTTO, and the UKP&I Club.
Born within the U.S., Trauth holds bachelor’s and Master’s levels in engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Georgetown University. She resides in London along with her spouse Angela and may typically be discovered climbing, exploring, or on her street bike.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
KT: First, I’d prefer to share my appreciation for the work that Marine Log is doing to lift the profile of feminine leaders within the Maritime Industry. I’m honored by this recognition and hope that the work I do has the impact to each encourage and pave the way in which for different ladies who share my dedication to security and the setting.
Throughout my profession, I’ve held three values fixed, though maybe not consciously within the early years. These are the areas the place I’ve expended probably the most power and am really most pleased with the accomplishments. But earlier than I start to explain them, I additionally want to acknowledge that I might have none of those successes with out the improbable folks I’ve labored with over time, these mentors, friends, and groups.
Firstly, I basically worth the protection of life at sea as the start line. When working with the U.S. Navy to introduce low-observable supplies and development to the USS Zumwalt class of vessels, I acknowledged two issues. First, that it might be the design of the supplies and the construction which might defend the Sailors who go in hurt’s approach in service of our Country; but additionally, that the work that my workforce did within the precise development and constructing of the construction to the very best of our skill was crucial to their security. I’ve taken that have to do my utmost to guard the men and women who go to sea into my roles in Shell, working with know-how and design in addition to shipowners and industrial groups to develop best-in-class initiatives equivalent to Shell’s Maritime Partners in Safety program.
Secondly, and constructing on that, I’ve—and at all times have had—an actual ardour for the setting. I joined the power business for the chance to positively affect the emissions footprint of Shipping. I’m extremely pleased with the work that I led to introduce LNG as a bunker gasoline, practically eliminating SOx, NOx and particulate matter, together with issuing the World’s First contract for development of an ocean-going LNG bunkering vessel. And I proceed to be impressed by the work that my workforce are doing to show the power to hold liquid hydrogen and liquified CO2 cargoes at sea. I’ve not too long ago based, and am Chairwoman of, the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition to handle marine emissions within the U.S. and Canadian cabotage markets. I’m in awe of the horsepower of the motivated North American business leaders who’re utilizing this non-profit to impact actual change. Climate change is on the forefront of many minds at the moment, however my values tie again to the idea of “leave no trace” that I realized when climbing, a lot earlier in my life.
And the third worth I maintain pricey, is that each human being needs to be inspired to dream and have the idea that they’ll every obtain past their wildest goals. As a small little one, I used to be inspired to dream, and I notice I’m extremely fortunate to have a really supportive household. So maybe the third space is much less of successful that I’m pleased with and extra a realization that I’ve been the primary girl to carry out practically each function I’ve held in my profession. This offers me each the chance and the duty to mentor, help, and coach others as they discover their very own private paths. Women Offshore not too long ago held their annual convention and the theme resonated with me: Lift as You Climb. When I get to the tip of my profession and look again, if I can see that I used to be capable of help, encourage, and encourage ladies to ship past what they think about attainable, I’ll see that as my largest success.
VaLinda Pierce, Operations Coordinator, Golding Barge Line
Pierce began her maritime profession in 1994 as a clerical temp at Ole Man River Transportation Company in Vicksburg, Miss., working with administration making a TSMS following ISO 9002 requirements for Quality Control. After a compulsory six-month ready interval, I used to be employed on full time, persevering with the certification and implementation of the ISO 9002 Standard all through the Fleet, utilizing earlier coaching in Statistical Process Control. She additionally served because the doc management coordinator and administrative assistant to the operations supervisor offering help to the Maintenance and Operations Groups.
In 1996, she moved to Baton Rouge, La., as a part of Kirby Corporation reorganization, and over a 16-year interval, she served within the River Operations Department as operations secretary, administrative assistant to vp, payroll coordinator, and crew dispatcher.
In 2010, Pierce started doing freelance tasks for a number of marine firms whereas finding out laptop science, which aided within the development of her profession with Golding Barge Line in Vicksburg, Miss., from 2012 to current.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
VP: I’m pleased with many issues throughout my time at Golding Barge Line. To title a number of, the combination of the salvage and firefighting guidelines into the corporate’s OPA 90 Spill Response Plan, together with the five-year renewal and annual updates. Also, the compliance procedures and administration of the Vessel General Permit guidelines within the fleet, together with preparation of the annual EPA stories.
I’m additionally proud to have performed a key function within the creation and implementation of the corporate’s Tank Barge Streamlined Inspection Program with the U.S. Coast Guard. Finally, I helped work on TSMS revisions for compliance with Sub M guidelines and extra!
Capt. Carolyn Kurtz, Captain/Pilot, Tampa Bay Pilots Association
Originally from Queens, N.Y., Kurtz attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Upon commencement in 1986, she went to sea with Maritime Overseas Corporation and sailed as third, 2nd, and Chief Mate, receiving her limitless Master’s license in 1993. In 1995, she was accepted into the Tampa Bay Pilots (TBPA) coaching program, turning into their first (and so far, solely) feminine pilot. She has served as co-manager and coaching coordinator of TBPA, Secretary of the Florida Harbor Pilots Association, and as Chair of the Navigation Safety Advisory Council, an advisory board to the U.S. Coast Guard.
She at present serves as Chair of each the Florida Board of Pilot Commissioners and the newly re-formed National Navigation Safety Advisory Council. She is honored to serve on the boards of the Mariners’ Museum and Park, and First 10 Forward, a non-profit based by Kings Point ladies grads benefiting women and girls pursuing non-traditional careers. She has been a visitor teacher at Mitags and Maritime Pilots Institute, served on varied skilled panels, and is an lively mentor with Women Offshore.
Most not too long ago, Kurtz was honored by Proclamation by the Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation for her 27 years of service as a Tampa Bay Pilot. When not piloting ships, Kurtz and her husband can typically be discovered on their 32-foot Legacy trawler someplace on Tampa Bay taking footage of ships!
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
CK: Being a Tampa Bay Pilot has afforded me many alternatives and an actual voice in representing and advocating for my career. Mentoring younger mariners, coaching new pilots, and educating these exterior the career about what we do have been each difficult and very rewarding. As the senior pilot in my affiliation, I’m proud to have contributed to the success of all of the pilots who got here after me. As a feminine pilot, I’m proud that I’ve been capable of have an unbelievable skilled profession while nonetheless being a really current and engaged dad or mum, hopefully inspiring different ladies to pursue and obtain their targets within the maritime business.
Cathy Shantz Hammond, CEO/Owner, Inland Marine Service Inc.
Hammond is a graduate of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., with a B.S. diploma in vocational residence economics. She obtained her grasp’s diploma in studying training from The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. She taught 14 years in Cincinnati Public Schools and Covington Independent Schools educating Vocational Home Economics, Math and Science.
She is at present CEO of Inland Marine Service. She started her river profession in 1985. Hammond obtained most of her information of the marine business from driving firm vessels. She labored alongside workers following the deck crew, working with the engineer and observing within the pilothouse. Inland Marine Service marked its 37th anniversary this previous May. She has served on the board and govt committee for TVIB (Towing Vessel Inspection Bureau), the place she additionally served as president. She is a member of The Waterways Council and The American Waterways Operators, the place she served on the board of administrators and govt committee.
Hammond was appointed to function a member of the Towing Safety Advisory Council (TSAC) by three completely different presidential cupboards and was the longest serving member on file. During her tenure on TSAC, she acted as vice chairman and took part in quite a few working teams. She additionally participated on a number of working teams that had been established to create the Responsible Carrier’s Program. She was the primary chairman of the Accreditation Board, now often called the Standard’s Board.
Hammond is lively in social betterment packages. She has made two mission journeys to South Sudan, Africa. She can be an lively volunteer with a number of National and Regional organizations that feed and educate the under-privileged. She most not too long ago served as a employees member at Royal Family Kids Camp, a camp for foster kids.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
CH: I’m most pleased with the trouble that I’ve made on behalf of the mariner. I hope in some small approach, I’ve helped honored the mariners who so deserve the popularity.
Okay. Denise Rucker Krepp, Director of Director’s Action Group, Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy
Krepp is a sexual assault and sexual harassment advocate who began her profession as a Coast Guard officer. She subsequently served as a Transportation Security Administration lawyer, House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Senior Counsel, U.S. Maritime Administration Chief Counsel, and personal sector lobbyist. Krepp can be a regionally elected DC official, Military Women’s Memorial Ambassador, National Maritime Historical Society Trustee, and former member of the Surface Transportation Security Advisory Committee. She has been revealed within the Washington Post, Roll Call, Richmond Times Dispatch, and Proceedings. Krepp has visitor lectured on the U.S. Naval War College, the George Washington University, and the University of Miami.
While serving as U.S. Maritime Administration Chief Counsel, Krepp requested an Inspector General investigation in 2011 into in school and at sea sexual assaults of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy college students. Krepp subsequently testified twice in 2014 earlier than a Congressionally mandated panel and earlier than the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 2019 about sexual assaults within the service provider marine group. She has additionally suggested Congress on laws associated to sexual assault issues and has written quite a few articles prior to now ten years about the issue and methods to cease it. We’re all given a voice and Krepp is proud to make use of hers to advocate for sexual assault survivors.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
DK: We’re all given a voice, and I’m proud to make use of mine to advocate for sexual assault survivors within the maritime business. My advocacy efforts have resulted in higher consciousness of the sexual assaults, enhanced oversight, and new insurance policies and procedures to report and prosecute the crimes.
While serving as U.S. Maritime Administration Chief Counsel, I requested an Inspector General investigation in 2011 into college and at sea sexual assaults of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy college students. I subsequently testified twice in 2014 earlier than a Congressionally mandated panel and earlier than the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 2019 about sexual assaults within the service provider marine group. I additionally suggested Congress on laws associated to sexual assault issues and has written quite a few articles prior to now ten years about the issue and methods to cease it.
Carly Remm, Project Manager, Foss Maritime
Remm is a graduate from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the place she studied and graduated with a B.S. in marine engineering. Upon commencement, she sailed with Crowley on its ocean-going tugs after which commenced her profession ashore as an assistant port engineer to port engineer for petroleum ATB’s and tankers for eight years. From there, she pioneered the Engineering Reliability program that supported the vessels with gear failure trending, commonplace upkeep evaluations, and engineering corrective actions and steady enchancment options.
She at present helps the Project and Commercial groups at Fos with venture administration for varied towing tasks.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
CR: I’m pleased with the resilience and hurdles I’ve and proceed to beat in my profession. My success has been from having the ability to join and lead mariners from all vessel varieties and encourage a extra considerate and dependable operational tradition. With the mariner in thoughts, I lead a reliability workforce that pioneered and began an operational reliability program to encourage and embed forward-thinking and planning within the day-to-day duties.
The foundation of this system began with “the better the tools and procedures are for the vessel crews, the more reliable and repeatable the outcomes will be.” In a dynamic setting the place the method to get to the identical finish aim varies, it was tough to establish enact change. This was the beginning and basis of the reliability program that helped acknowledge the present state of routine operational upkeep and make enhancements.
My current nomination for finalist of the Saltchuk Safety Award, my nominator suggested: “Her effective leadership for the crews has built their trust by responding to their safety concerns with tireless commitment, always clearly communicating the Foss credo, ‘”Always Safe, Always Ready.’”
Blythe Daly, Director, Associate Counsel – Marine, Royal Caribbean Group
After graduating from faculty, Daly sailed for a few years on tall ships and yachts, together with engaged on the film “Master and Commander.” She then went to Tulane Law School, the place she studied maritime regulation. During regulation college, she interned on the Seamen’s Church Institute’s Center for Seafarer’s Rights (now the Center for Mariner Advocacy) and was the Editor in Chief of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal.
After regulation college, she spent 10 years working on the regulation agency Holland & Knight in New York, in its Transportation & Infrastructure sector and maritime follow group. She focused on industrial delivery issues, together with constitution occasion disputes, vessel casualties, cargo claims, insurance coverage issues, and private damage claims. From May 2019 via February 2022, she served because the authorized counsel for M/V The World, the most important residential passenger ship on this planet. In March 2022, she joined Royal Caribbean Group’s company authorized group. She is predicated in Miami and is licensed to follow regulation in each Florida and New York.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
BD: Working on the movie “Master and Commander,” in fact. But by way of authorized successes, one of the crucial fascinating circumstances and “successes” for my colleagues and me was the negotiation of a settlement on behalf of a bunch of reinsurers on a matter arising out of a Somali pirate hijacking of a VLCC. Representation of the reinsurers adopted illustration of the shipowner and insurers earlier than the Office of Foreign Assets Control and in a common common arbitration matter.
Maggie Moon, Director of Business Development, Glosten
Moon’s profession within the maritime business started in 2011, although her first publicity to the world of boats and boat design predates her personal reminiscence. She was raised on the south shore of Lake Erie, the place her brother launched a profession as an expert naval architect and her father nonetheless builds and restores classic picket runabouts. After incomes her bachelor’s diploma in enterprise economics from Cleveland State University, Moon accepted an entry-level reception place at Glosten. Since that point, she has labored in just about all points of enterprise administration on the firm, taking up more and more difficult roles and steadily constructing a useful basis of expertise.
By 2019, her unflagging work ethic and dedication to professionalism had propelled her to her present place of Director of Business Development. She was referred to as to hitch the Glosten Leadership Team in 2020 and promoted to Principal in 2021. Today, she thrives on growing and implementing focused advertising and marketing and enterprise growth methods and serves as a major strategic advisor to the management workforce and agency principals.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
MM: My profession trajectory started approach exterior of the core disciplines of a naval structure agency. I’m proud that I used to be capable of carry a singular perspective that added a lot worth to the corporate that I’m now a principal and serving on Glosten’s Leadership Team. I really feel so fortunate that I get to do that job day by day. Hands down, I’m most proud to work alongside so many passionate and loopy good people which can be really dedicated to tackling the more and more complicated challenges confronted by our business.
Margaret Gordon, Executive Director Safety & Security, NYC Department of Transportation – Staten Island Ferry Division
Upon commencement in 1985, Gordon had a quick job conducting stability calculations on the DDG-51 and FFG-7 class vessels, adopted by managing a water shuttle in Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport, after which a number of years deep sea on her license. I then turned to working ashore for Marine Transport Lines, first growing compliance procedures for his or her chemical tankers then growing my first security administration system for MTL. Several years later, she branched into personal consulting, growing security administration techniques, venture administration, course of enchancment and regulatory compliance.
Her want to work with a workforce on difficult tasks introduced her to the Staten Island Ferry, following a crash in 2003 that killed 11 folks and critically injured 70. As a part of a relative skinny senior administration workforce on the time, she was tasked with growing a security administration system, implement new MTSA safety laws, settle for three new ferryboats and the rebuilding of two new ferry terminals, all of the whereas altering the tradition on the ferry. The iconic Staten Island Ferry was in disarray and has since turn into the chief in security tradition and the implementation of a sound security administration system. She helped construct a reliable security and safety workforce and inside two years of beginning, obtained their Document of Compliance for the shoreside operation and Safety Management Certificates for all ferryboats.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
MG: I’m most pleased with what our workforce on the ferry has completed. The tradition has certainly modified, and the protection administration system is a confirmed system. Upon my arrival to the ferry, the misplaced time damage price for our workers was 127 LTIs per 200,000 work hours, which was surprising. It is now under three LTIs per 200,000 work hours, leading to a 98% discount. Without correct incident reporting and CCTV cameras, the ferry had 77 open tort circumstances once I began. With the implementation and coaching of occasion monitoring reporting and coordinating downloads of digital camera footage, we now have two lively tort circumstances, leading to a 97% discount. The safer setting not solely prevents accidents, nevertheless it has saved taxpayers a number of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in defending lawsuits.
Stephanie Cavaliere, Port Captain, Kirby Inland Marine
Born and raised in Queens, N.Y., Cavaliere graduated from SUNY Maritime in 2011, with a USCG third Mate’s Unlimited License and a Bachelor of Science diploma in Maritime Transportation. Shortly after commencement, she joined Kirby Inland Marine as a MOTV of their steersman program and gained expertise transiting the Mississippi River, a number of of its tributaries in addition to the Intracoastal canal on varied horsepower vessels with completely different tow configurations. She labored as a pilot and promoted to aid captain after acquiring her Masters of Towing Vessels Upon Great Lakes, Inland Waters, and Western Rivers.
In 2021, she transitioned to a shoreside function as port captain to handle a fleet of 12 vessels, oversee budgets, security and compliance initiatives, crewing, and coaching, whereas sustaining vital buyer relationships and serving as vessel liaison for a number of buyer contracts. Cavaliere is skilled in marine casualty response and captivated with making a extra environment friendly and safer setting for vessel workers. As a proud member of WISTA, WIMOs, and the Kirby household, she is pushed to be taught and promote security within the maritime business.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
SC: I’m most pleased with the expansion and expertise obtained whereas reaching my Master of Towing license on inland vessels. Being capable of make the most of the information and expertise shoreside has been an accomplishment I’m very proud to have achieved. The skill to assist and handle the vessels I’m accountable for, whereas nonetheless being given the chance to experience the boats and proceed to be taught and enhance in my place, is successful. I proceed to be pleased with and hope to make use of all the talents and sources to excel within the maritime business.
Capt. Wendy Williams, Senior Master, Formerly Virgin Voyages and Royal Caribbean International
Williams’ marine profession started at an early age. She was two years outdated when she first began to go to work along with her father, who was a marine electronics engineer in northern Quebec. They labored on all kinds of vessels collectively, however her favourite ones had been the cargo ships.
She considers the our bodies of water of this world to be our most useful of sources. She started her personal profession as a Fisheries Observer on the West Coast of British Columbia. Subsequently, she turned a deckhand on fishing vessels and accrued sea time so she may go to a maritime academy and purchase worldwide licenses. Passenger Vessels turned her gig for a few years, whereas she labored hermy approach up the ranks to turn into the primary Canadian girl to command a serious passenger vessel. She has taught at a maritime faculty and nonetheless actively sails on Ro-Ro vessels. She additionally does consulting work, and is a member of WISTA and The Company of Master Mariners of Canada.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
WW: I’m a lady, a spouse and a proud mariner who has labored on this business for over 30 years. Perseverance, drive and love of what I do have carried me via the years and nonetheless do. I’m a mentor to younger mariners and continuously encourage ladies to hitch on this great career. Less than 2% of the worlds’ international maritime workforce are ladies. Glass ceilings nonetheless must be shattered.
For sustainability and success within the trendy world, delivery wants range within the workforce and ladies serving to to drive the decision-making processes. Women within the maritime world at the moment are robust, highly effective and continuously difficult old style perceptions. I used to be considered one of just a few Female Fishers on the BC Coast, proud to be on the forefront of my profession and capable of mentor so many. My best achievement was turning into Canadas First Female Mega Cruise Ship Captain.
Zoe Cawfield, Vice President of Engineering, General Dynamics NASSCO
Cawfield is chargeable for all design phases of the brand new development ships constructed at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard.
She joined NASSCO in 2003, as equipment techniques supervisor, advancing via varied management positions together with Manager of Systems Engineering and Director of Functional Engineering. She labored briefly exterior of NASSCO for 2 years as a venture supervisor for Alion Science on LHA 6 and 7 and two years in Mexico City for Sempra Energy’s affiliate IENOVA on power development tasks all through Mexico. Most not too long ago, she served as NASSCO’s Director of Government Programs from 2019-2022.
Cawfield served 5 years within the U.S. Navy as a Surface Warfare (Nuclear) Officer on the USS John Hancock and the USS Abraham Lincoln previous to becoming a member of NASSCO. She holds a Bachelor of Science diploma in ocean engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master of Science in Engineering Management diploma from Old Dominion University. She is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds a Professional Certification in Program Management.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
ZC: At General Dynamics NASSCO, every part we do entails being part of a workforce. Every particular person has a job, and every function is crucial in conducting what we do right here at NASSCO. From procuring contracts, to finishing designs, to acquiring materials, and in the end constructing and delivering ships are all integral elements that make the corporate profitable.
Throughout my time at NASSCO, I’ve been fortunate sufficient to be concerned within the contract, design and development technique of many industrial and authorities ship lessons. These ships embody T-AKEs, ESDs, ESBs, BP Tankers, TOTE Orca ROROs and different industrial lessons.
The success that I’m most pleased with is being on the NASSCO Engineering Team that designed the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet oilers. The oilers are a vastly succesful ship class that I performed a component in from the start of the design via the supply of the primary ship earlier this 12 months. I used to be capable of apply classes and challenges from earlier lessons and hold file of what enhancements I plan to provoke on future designs. I stay up for implementing these modifications with my workforce as we put together to tackle new shipbuilding contracts.
Teresa DeMeo, General Manager of Towing Operations, Miller’s Tug & Barge Inc.
DeMeo holds a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration from Rutgers School of Business Camden. Prior to having her two kids, she labored on Wall Street as an assistant analysis analyst. She started her profession at Miller’s Tug & Barge in 2012 in her present place as common supervisor of towing operations. She is chargeable for all day-to-day operations of all Miller’s tugboats and barges. With over 30 years of expertise, she has a powerful administration and communication background acquired all through her profession.
DeMeo says that group, a lifetime want to be taught, consideration to element, and a “never give up” motto has allowed her to realize her targets. The day-to-day operations of Miller’s Tug & Barge was featured in Vice TV’s “Living the Life of a Tugboat Captain While Keeping All Your Fingers” to carry consciousness to tugboats in New York Harbor.
She is at present the Chairperson of Towboat and Harbor Carriers Association of NY NJ, with a mission to advertise and symbolize the pursuits of tugboat operators and harbor carriers in native points related to the tug and barge business within the New York/New Jersey Port space and approaches.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
TD: I’m most pleased with initiating pupil outreach to teach youthful generations of how very important the maritime business is to all of us. In collaboration with Borough President Fossella, The Noble Maritime Collection, NYCEDC, MARPONY, and NYCDOE CTE ISP program (i.e., McKee Technical HS, Harbor School), we’re growing maritime youth training and workforce growth to offer youthful generations a chance to be taught and be a part of the maritime business.
Ginger Garte, Environmental & Sustainability Director, Lloyd’s Register North America – LR Foundation
Garte is a sustainability advocate armed with over 29 years of maritime expertise. In her present function, she is a part of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Maritime Decarbonization Hub.
She is an adaptive techniques thinker, who helps marine purchasers, together with ferries, naval, cargo, and cruise ships, develop brave sustainability ambition that drives their web zero goals, to provide again extra to society than they devour. Her experience consists of worker engagement, useful resource use and optimization, port services and provide chain infrastructure, ESG (Environmental Social Governance) danger.
Garte obtained her Geological Science diploma from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and was chosen to function a U.S. Commissioned Officer with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Upon completion of Officer Training School, she served for 5 years onboard NOAA’s analysis vessels and land-based laboratories. Her geological analysis led to a number of publications on South Florida ecosystems. She has additionally held roles as Superintendent, Environmental Health and Safety Department, at Carnival and Senior Analyst, Environmental Stewardship Department, serving all manufacturers inside Royal Caribbean Group.
Garte takes an lively function locally the place she is a board member of UpGyre’s.org, a non-profit that develops applied sciences that rework ocean air pollution into helpful merchandise. and on Vancouver Maritime Centre for Climate’s steering committee. She additionally serves as council member and decide for The Fairchild Challenge, and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA).
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
GG: I really like an excellent problem, so my high profession highlights have additionally coincided with offering perception, understanding and alternative out of our largest sustainability threats. In my present function, we’re on a mission for a safer, sustainable thriving ocean financial system for all! To get there, we carry collectively the brightest minds to decarbonize maritime, develop blueprints for inexperienced delivery corridors, implement web zero carbon methods which carry international companions collectively who reside “United Nations Good Life Goals (#13)” and ship on the world’s web constructive goals.
I’ve at all times been related to the water and an advocate for good, so LR’s work inside the United Nations Global Compact UNGC and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) now offers us new UN Good Life Goals to share with communities we serve and advance all 17 SDGs and depart nobody behind.
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals are key, as we all know these challenges will not be going to be solved by anyone group, however that by creating alliances, coalitions, and partnerships, we’ll decarbonize our business and develop the resilient maritime infrastructure needed to succeed in 5% of renewable gasoline consumption within the international fleet by 2030 to remain the course!
Kelly Baughman, Director of Environment, Crowley Shipping
Baughman joined Crowley in 2018, overseeing environmental and sustainability packages inside Crowley Shipping Marine Management. She helps and coaches each fleet and shoreside personnel in a variety of issues together with environmental regulatory compliance, environmental affect discount, and decarbonization planning. She additionally helps the emergency preparedness and response program inside Crowley, serving because the Planning Section Chief in addition to coaching different personnel as a FEMA licensed ICS lead teacher.
Baughman at present serves because the Chairperson of the Chamber of Shipping of America Policy and Operations Committee. She additionally represents Crowley in quite a few business working teams together with the World Shipping Council Environmental and Climate Council, the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel Environmental Committee, the Blue Sky Maritime Coalition Measurements and Operational Efficiency Workstream, and the American Waterways Operators in addition to performing as an observer on the International Chamber of Shipping delegation to the IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee.
She is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Class of 2000; B.S. in Marine Engineering Systems Design).
She started her profession afloat, working onboard varied vessel varieties together with tankers, container vessels and bulk vessels as an Engineering Officer, Tankerman PIC, and Fleet Safety Officer. Kelly transitioned to a shoreside function in 2015, with SeaRiver Maritime Inc., supporting fleet environmental, security, high quality, and operations packages.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
KB: I rely myself very lucky to work with such a dedicated, forward-thinking workforce at Crowley. Our deal with the protection and welfare of our folks and the world round us, bolstered in any respect ranges of the group, allows our folks to go above and past compliance with business and regulatory requirements. As a end result, Crowley’s mariners and shoreside personnel have been acknowledged by the U.S. Coast Guard with the 2022 William M. Benkert Marine Environmental Protection Award on the Osprey degree.
Also, significant to me in my profession is the chance to leverage the information I gained in my 15 years at sea to contribute to the event of the following technology of business management via company mentorship, internship packages and as a facilitator of Crowley’s inner security management program.
Dr. Hongling Zhang, P.Eng., Project Manager/Senior Naval Architect, Robert Allan Ltd.
Hongling graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a PhD of Naval Architecture in 1999. She labored on the R&D division of Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd. in Shanghai, China till shifting to Vancouver, and joined Robert Allan Ltd. in 2007. She is at present a Project Manager and Senior Naval Architect, chargeable for overseeing all points of vessel design tasks. She has labored on quite a lot of fascinating and difficult tasks over time, together with giant Research Ships, OSVs, Tugs, Fireboats, gasoline fuelled ships and bulk carriers.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
KZ: I’m very proud to have been the Robert Allan Team Lead, Naval Architecture for the design of a 38-meter LNG-powered tug for the Port of Ningbo, China. This was a really difficult venture, because the idea of LNG propulsion was new to the proprietor, shipyard, and classification society. Many conferences had been held at every stage of the design course of to coordinate the necessities of all of the concerned events. My major function was to guage the wants of the proprietor’s operation and to determine how we may design a vessel to fulfill these wants inside the framework of the classification societies guidelines. We additionally assisted the proprietor in deciding on main gear that meets their standards for security, reliability, and financial worth. During the constructing course of, I coordinated technical help between the shipyard’s and proprietor’s technical groups and shaped an acceptable plan of motion for points that arose alongside the way in which. The venture was accomplished and delivered efficiently, not too long ago receiving a 1st place award from the China Ports and Harbours Association.
I used to be additionally not too long ago concerned as venture supervisor for a 27-meter twin-screw towboat for an Indonesian consumer—the problem right here was to include two propulsion choices and two lodging choices into the identical common design. This was carried out to permit the shipyard the flexibleness to supply a vessel that may be appropriate for as many operators as attainable. After profitable sea trials, the primary vessel was delivered in June of this 12 months, and with constructive suggestions, there are actually three extra boats underneath development, and we count on many extra sooner or later.
Errin Howard, RiverWorks Discovery Director, National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium
Howard started her profession within the river business as an educator in a sales space at Tall Stacks for the primary public presentation of RiverWorks Discovery in 2006. This journey started with one single sponsor and the imaginative and prescient of Mark Knoy, who on the time was president of AEP’s River Operations. Today, she promotes, markets, and oversees all points of RiverWorks Discovery. She has a ardour for the river business and the individuals who make it what it’s. Currently, this system has over 180 sponsors, 40 non-profit companions and has reached greater than one million folks since its inception. She is a CORBA (Central Ohio River a Business Association) board member.
ML: What successes are you most pleased with by way of your maritime profession?
EH: Riverworks Discovery is really my delight and pleasure! To be capable to be concerned with it from the start phases with AEP to at the moment, now having virtually 200 sponsors is so rewarding.
Collaborating with these sponsors to arrange, promote, after which truly execute our “Who Works the Rivers” occasions is so gratifying. To watch these teenage children be taught and take part in these occasions and witness their enthusiasm at all times makes my day. Just figuring out that at the least a number of will make the marine business a profession is what makes this so particular.
In addition, we attempt to validate, on our social media web page, life within the business from footage of what actual life on the river is about, and the breathtaking views that maritime associates witness every day.
Finally, our sponsors are what make this all attainable. I delight myself in figuring out every considered one of them personally, from the most important barge traces to the one particular person donors and everybody in between.
I’m honored to obtain this award and hope I’ve adequately articulated my ardour for this superb business and the positive those who gasoline it 24/7/365!
Tara Steiner Marshall, President, Steiner Shipyard
Marshall has greater than 32 years of shipyard expertise. At Steiner Shipyard, a small family-owned and operated shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Ala., Marshall oversees every day operations as its president.
Steiner Shipyard builds all sorts of new development metal or aluminum vessels, from passenger and cargo ferries to inland river push boats and offshore provide vessels. The shipyard has additionally constructed industrial fishing trawlers. These vessels have been delivered everywhere in the world with Marshall on the helm of the household enterprise.
