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EDITORIAL

MARITIME

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ENGINEERING NEWS

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WMU; Greg Trauthwein, Vice-President, New

Publishers

Wave Media; Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry,

John E. O’Malley

President, WMU; Murray Goldberg, CEO,

John C. O’Malley [email protected]

Marine Learning Systems.

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Associate Publisher/Editorial Director

Greg Trauthwein [email protected]

GREG TRAUTHWEIN, EDITOR & ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

Vice President, Sales

Rob Howard [email protected] n m n my 25 years serving the maritime market, I have had binds us’ type of individual, and if your organization needs

Web Editor

Eric Haun [email protected] m more than my fair share of memorable personal and profes- to get a handle on its training initiatives, I recommend a

Web Contributor sio sional experiences – far more than I could have possibly conversation with him and his growing team at MLS.

Michelle Howard [email protected] im imagined when I moved the New York City after graduat- Last, but certainly not least, my sincere thanks to Dr.

Editorial in ing from The Ohio State University nearly 30 years ago. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry, President, WMU. Dr.

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil

La Last month at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Doumbia-Henry, as you might expect, has impressive

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia

M Malmö, Sweden, I was honored to be a part of something maritime credentials much too long to list in this space,

I that tops the chart, the signing of an MoU with WMU and including the development of the ILO Maritime Labor

Production

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Marine Learning Systems (MLS) to produce a global sur- Convention, 2006, something she remained responsible for

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] vey on mariner training. it until she joined WMU 2015.

Corporate Staff

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

There will be more details of the actual survey in the The signing of the MoU was my ? rst step into the WMU

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting coming weeks and months, as we will ask executives in President’s of? ce, and after the ink dried and the photog-

Information Technology

Vladimir Bibik shipping companies across the industry and around the rapher exited, I spent the balance of the morning through

Emin Yuce world to share insightful information on their company’s lunch interviewing Dr. Doumbia-Henry for the August current and future maritime training regimen. 2017 edition. Suf? ce it to say that she is passionate about

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Kathleen Hickey [email protected]

This endeavor is signi? cant for a number of reasons, all matters maritime and mariners, and frankly there is no mainly as it is an earnest attempt to give size, shape and better partner than WMU to spearhead this study.

Sales perspective to maritime training habits and investment, a For our part we offer our full family of media products

Lucia Annunziata [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220 topic which to date has no cohesive and complete form. – in print, online and via social media – including the

Terry Breese [email protected]

My gratitude for this union starts with Associate Profes- world’s largest audited circulation b2b maritime magazine +1 561 732 1185

John Cagni [email protected] sor, Michael Manuel, WMU, who has worked tirelessly in Maritime Reporter & Engineering News; one of the 631-472-2715 +1 on this project from the start to give the survey form and oldest and most heavily traf? cked industry websites in

Frank Covella [email protected] +1 561 732 1659 function with the credentials of WMU strongly in support. MarineLink.com, and the world’s largest maritime social

Mitch Engel [email protected]

Another partner is Murray Goldberg, CEO, Marine media presence, led by our Maritime Network group on +1 561 732 0312

Mike Kozlowski [email protected]

Learning Systems, a regular contributor to our pages, LinkedIn with nearly 130,000 members.

+1 561 733 2477 including a column in this edition starting on page 14. To Together, WMU, MLS and New Wave media will work

Jean Vertucci [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 put it simply, Murray is one of the most tireless executives hard for the overall good of this industry to deliver – with that I know, a walking, talking educational and eLearning your help – a unique perspective on global maritime train-

International Sales dynamo that is quickly adding maritime industry titans to ing practices.

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