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MarAd's Schubert Resigns

Captain William G. Schubert resigned effective February 12, 2005, as

Maritime Administrator of the Maritime

Administration. The Deputy

Administrator of the Maritime

Administration, John Jamian, will assume the role of Acting Maritime

Administrator.

Admiral Olsen Tapped to Lead Webb

Charles Visconti, Chairman of the

Webb Institute Board of Trustees, announced that Rear Admiral Robert C.

Olsen, Jr., the current Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in

New London, Conn., was selected to succeed Ronald K. Kiss on July 1, 2005 as President of Webb Institute. Admiral

Olsen, born in Brooklyn, grew up in

New London, where he graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1969. He later earned an M.S. in

Administration from the U.S. Naval

Post Graduate School in Monterrey, Ca., and an M.S. in National Security and

Strategic Studies form the Naval War

College.

Rigdon Christens M/V Bienville

Larry Rigdon, President and CEO of

Rigdon Marine, announced that Mrs.

Janie Babin, wife of Michael Babin,

Vice President of Administration, chris- tened the M/V Bienville in Mobile, Ala., the sixth of 10 contracted GPA-640 plat- form supply vessels to be christened.

The vessel joins its sister fleet of 210 x 54 x 19-ft. diesel-electric and dynamic positioning ABS-classed platform sup- ply vessels that are currently operating in the Gulf of Mexico. It was immedi- ately deployed to work.

DHS Names Maritime Security

Advisory Committee Members

The U.S. Department of Homeland

Security announced the appointment of the following individuals to serve on the

National Maritime Security Advisory

Committee.

The advisory committee has been established to provide advice to the

Department of Homeland Security via the U.S. Coast Guard on matters such as national maritime security strategy and policy, actions required to meet current and future security threats, international cooperation on security issues, and security concerns of the maritime trans- portation industry as mandated by the

Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. • Christopher Louis Koch, president & CEO, World

Shipping Council Joseph H. Langjahr, vice president and general counsel, Foss Maritime Company Thomas E. Thompson, executive vice president,

International Council of Cruise Lines John C. Dragone, vice president, operating division, Maritrans Operating Company, L.P. Mary Frances Culnane, manager, San Francisco

Bay Area Water Transit Authority Basil Maher, president and chief operating officer,

Maher Terminals Charles Raymond, chairman, president, and CEO,

Horizon Lines Alice K. Johnson, senior supervisor, PPG

Industries, Inc. Timothy J. Scott, global director, emergency serv- ices and security, The Dow Chemical Company Mark Witten, senior regulatory advisor, Gulf of

Mexico Deepwater Business Unit, ChevronTexaco Robert R. Merhige, III, deputy executive director,

Virginia Port Authority Jeffery Wayne Monroe, director of ports and trans- portation, Portland, Maine Lisa Himber, vice president, Maritime Exchange for the Delaware River And Bay Wade M. Battles, managing director, Port of

Houston Authority John Hyde, security and compliance director,

Maersk Sealand Inc. William Eglinton, director of training, Seafarers

International Union of North America, AFL CIO James Stolpinski, president, Local 920,

International Longshoremen's Association David Halstead, chief, Florida Domestic Security

Preparedness, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Theodore Louis Mar, chief, marine safety branch,

California Department of Fish and Game Victor Zaloom, professor and chair of industrial engineering and director, engineering graduate programs and Center for Ports and Waterways, Lamar University

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