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July 16, 2021 By Waterways Journal Mason Bland has been promoted to director of finance for Associated Terminals and Turn Services. He will be responsible for leading the budgeting, forecasting, implementation and business strategic analysis of the financial team for the companies. Bland graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2013 with a B.S. in accounting. He began his career as a financial analyst at St. James Stevedoring, which was acquired by Associated Terminals in 2015. In 2017, he was promoted to senior finan...

April 20, 2021 By Frank McCormack RiverWorks Discovery partnered with the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center April 14 to host a first-of-its-kind Who Works The Rivers online career education event. The free event was open to students and RiverWorks Discovery supporters alike, in Kentucky and beyond.  Using an online platform from Covington, Ky.-based IT company ULIMI, Who Works The Rivers leaders were able to share an overview of the maritime industry, the ways in which the industry impacts the day-to-day lives of students, caree...

March 1, 2021 By Frank McCormack Global Maritime Ministries (GMM), a New Orleans-based organization that serves seafarers and inland mariners who call on ports in southeast Louisiana, along with the region’s broader maritime community, typically presents a pair of awards to local maritime leaders during its annual gala event. With ongoing restrictions due to COVID-19, though, Global Maritime Ministries Executive Director Philip Vandercook took the awards to the recipients’ places of work, bringing a personal touch to a season...

January 22, 2021 By Shelley Byrne As it moves into 2021, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) has repositioned its legal advocacy arm and updated its website to better serve brown-water mariners. Following the retirement of Doug Stevenson after a 29-year career as director of SCI’s Center for Seafarer Rights, based in Port Newark, N.J., the organization has hired Phillip C. Schifflin Jr. as its new director of the Center for Mariner Advocacy, which now makes its home in Schifflin’s adopted hometown of New Orleans, La. The na...

December 18, 2020 By David Murray In the top story of 2020, an invisible virus has, to date, caused more than a million and a half deaths worldwide, sickened tens of millions more, overwhelmed the health care facilities of many countries at times, and upended the global economy, completely reshaping some industries. It is a story that is far from over, but whose end may be in sight. After crash development by an emergency team under the aegis of Operation Warp Speed, two vaccines have been developed, one by Pfizer-BioNTech and th...