March 8, 2021 By Frank McCormack
The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a serious blow to in-person meetings of all kinds, including RiverWorks Discovery’s popular career discovery event, Who Works The Rivers (WWTR).
Before the pandemic, RiverWorks Discovery was ramping up WWTR, holding events in cities large and small and on multiple river systems. High school students by the busload would converge on host ports and terminals to discover the culture, commerce and conservation tied to the nation’s waterways and the maritime industry. But the pandemic brought that to a halt.
Now, thanks to a partnership with the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center (KCWC), Who Works The Rivers is set to go virtual, with an online career education event scheduled for April 14. The free event, which is open to students and RiverWorks Discovery supporters both in Kentucky and throughout the nation, will carry the same goal as the well-known in-p
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Jeremy Dyer.
Jeremy Dyer has joined the Towing Vessel Inspection Bureau as operations manager; he will be the primary staff resource for the TPO customer base on the Lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast and East Coast, and will work alongside Caleb King, focusing on the coordination of audits and surveys while working to support TPO customers with CG-835V/Marine Casualty concerns and related TPO activities.
Dyer has more than 21 years of marine-industry experience in both the private sector and the U.S. Coast Guard. He previously worked as a Subchapter M lead auditor and consultant with Halter Consulting Inc. Prior to that, he was the director of compliance for the River Division of Marquette Transportation Company LLC. There, his responsibilities included Subchapter M implementation; development, implementation and maintenance of an ISM compliant safety management system; an
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As the pandemic continues, so will the economic impacts to the maritime industry.
“The pandemic, and its ensuing oil slowdown or market turndown, decreased demand for petroleum products domestically and internationally,” said Josh Dixon, vice president of operations for Petroleum Service Corporation. Less demand for that meant there was less of that cargo being produced and then moved across the waterway system.”
The maritime industry is an interlocking puzzle of companies, each providing a specific service or piece of the supply chain through various contracts. Petroleum Service Corporation provides manpower and expertise for dock operations loading and unloading hazardous cargo, including oil and gas, on a vessel. The company operates four offices in Texas and one in Baton Rouge.
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