February 15, 2021 By Waterways Journal
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
Steel has been cut on the first National Security Multi-Mission vessel marking the official start of construction at Philly Shipyard.
The NSMVs will be the first state-of-the-art training vessels for the Nation’s state maritime academies. The first NSMV has been allocated to the State University of New York’s Maritime College, replacing the Empire State VI.
TOTE Services is acting at the vessel’ Vessel Construction Manager. In April it selected Philly Shipyard to construct the first two ships with options for up to three additional ships. The contract award, said to be valued at around $630 million, is a huge win for Philly Shipyard as it transitions to “grey hulls” after its Jones Act shipbuilding backlog fell to zero in early 2019. Construction of the NSMV is expected to support more than 1,200 direct shipyard jobs in Philadelphia.
National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Achieves First Construction Milestone with Steel Cutting Ceremony
TOTE Services, LLC, (“TOTE Services”) and Philly Shipyard, Inc., (“Philly Shipyard”) yesterday began a new era in maritime education with the cutting of steel for the new National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at Philly Shipyard. This is the initial major construction milestone for the first purpose-built, state-of-the-art training vessel for America’s state maritime academies. In addition to providing world-class training for America’s future mariners, the NSMV will be available to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.
A video of the steel cutting can be found here.