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4th Quarter 2015

Maritime

Volume 5 Professional

Number 4 4Q 2015 | www.MaritimeProfessional.com 10 The King & I

Young Entrepreneur Award Winner Boyan Slat has the noble notion to clean the world’s oceans.

By William Stoichevski 14 Caitlin M. Ness

Foss Maritime Company Project Manager Caitlin Ness was born for a life on the water.

By Joseph Keefe 24 NMEC Means Business

When it comes to training, workforce development is the fo- cus of the National Maritime Education Council.

By Joseph Keefe (a Subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries) Courtesy: Tom Barwick Stoichevski

Courtesy: Continental Maritime of San Diego 40 Oil Downturn Gives FPSO Labor Market Pause

Depressed oil prices and oil major CapEx reductions put workers on ? oating production systems on notice.

By Patricia Keefe 46 Louisiana is Down, Not Out

Louisiana and Port Fourchon both are looking ahead to brighter days, while its workforce ? ghts to survive.

By Susan Buchanan

Prillen (2011)

ON THE COVER

RADM Francis X. McDonald is the 38th president of the

Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a 1985 graduate of the academy. Founded in 1891, the Academy’s 125th anniversary is looming large in the proverbial porthole.

McDonald’s take on the future of recruitment, training and the education of Maritime Professionals for the next 125 years starts on page 32. 2 | Maritime Professional | 4Q 2015

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