The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last month announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee. Bill Eglinton, director of training at the SIU-affiliated Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education, was among those named to the group.“On behalf of Secretary Ridge, I am delighted to welcome these advisors to our team,” said Admiral Thomas H. Collins, commandant of the Coast Guard. “We look forward to working with the committee to continue strengthening our efforts to protect our ports and waterways while keeping them open for commerce.”
The advisory committee has been established to provide advice to the Department of Homeland Security via the U.S. Coast Guard on matters such as national maritime security strategy and policy, actions required to meet current and future security threats, international cooperation on security issues, and security concerns of the maritime transportation industry as mandated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002.
Members of the committee are: Eglinton, who has extensive experience in domestic and international forums pertaining to the training and certification of mariners; Christopher Louis Koch, president & CEO, World Shipping Council; Joseph H. Langjahr, vice president and general counsel, Foss Maritime Company; Thomas E. Thompson, executive vice president, International Council of Cruise Lines; and John C. Dragone, vice president, operating division, Maritrans Operating Company, L.P.
Also named to the committee were Mary Frances Culnane, manager, San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority; Basil Maher, president and chief operating officer, Maher Terminals; Charles Raymond, chairman, president, and CEO, Horizon Lines; Alice K. Johnson, senior supervisor, PPG Industries, Inc.; Timothy J. Scott, global director, emergency services and security, The Dow Chemical Company; Mark Witten, senior regulatory advisor, Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Business Unit, ChevronTexaco; and Robert R. Merhige, III, deputy executive director, Virginia Port Authority.
Rounding out the group are Jeffery Wayne Monroe, director of ports and transportation, Portland, Maine; Lisa Himber, vice president, Maritime Exchange for the Delaware River and Bay; Wade M. Battles, managing director, Port of Houston Authority; John Hyde, security and compliance director, Maersk Sealand Inc.; James Stolpinski, president, Local 920, International Longshoremen’s Association; David Halstead, chief, Florida Domestic Security Preparedness, Florida Department of Law Enforcement; Theodore Louis Mar, chief, marine safety branch, California Department of Fish and Game; and Victor Zaloom, professor and chair of industrial engineering and director, engineering graduate programs and Center for Ports and Waterways, Lamar University.
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