Crowley Maritime promoted Ed Schlueter to vice president of its Vessel Management Services subsidiary.
Schlueter will remain in Seattle and report directly to Tom Crowley Jr., Chairman, President and CEO.
Schlueter joined Crowley in 1976 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the marine engineering field.
Crowley Scholarship Presented Continuing its support of students wishing to pursue higher education, Crowley Maritime presented Pavian Grinage with a scholarship to assist in his education at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. Grinage is a sophomore in the business school where he is earning a degree in business while pursuing a minor in economics.
Crowley began awarding scholarships though Arctic Education Foundation in 2003.
The scholarship was founded to provide financial support to Native Alaskan residents.
to know about the company. With your visitor’s badge, you are handed a “Safety and Evacuation” brochure, and the person you are there to meet – in our case Tom Crowley, Jr. – walks down to greet you personally. Safety and People; The Crowley Way. The rest is just details. Crowley Maritime was founded in 1892
of bollard pull ahead and 7,200 maximum continuous bhp. "The long-term investment made in the refurbishment of these tugs is of great benefit to our customers because it helps us to maintain the service reliability and schedule integrity they have come to expect," said Tom Crowley, Jr.. chairman, president
.-long, 102-in.-wide, high-capacity units, along with hundreds of vehicles in enclosed, weather-tight car decking. While LNG is the hot topic of the day, Tom Crowley, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Crowley Maritime, said that it was only a small part of the overall decision. When Crowley made the decision on these
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and 220 years of combined experience is helping to change the way the maritime industry looks at ‘rope.’ It hasn’t been too long since industry icon Tom Crowley, Jr. offered that the one technology that had the biggest impact on the safety and efficiency of [his company’s] maritime operations was, in
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at their mid-life point rather than module that plants itself on the bot- in Charleson, S.C. Likewise USS San incur the expense of the costly mid-life tom; the power and sensing modules; Franscisco was decommissioned in refueling. San Francisco was in com- and the business end, which is a Mark 2022
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disaster, I was asked to perform a study and de- termine how much less oil would have been spilled if the Exxon Valdez had been designed with a double bottom. I estimat- ed about 50% less oil would have been spilled. I was mercilessly grilled in depo- sition by opposing attorneys and their ex- perts ? ercely