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Peter Shaerf joined AMA in 2002. Peter has over 30 years experience in the maritime industry. Prior to joining AMA he was a co-founder of Poseidon Capital and he also ran The Commonwealth Group, a leading broker and consultant in the container and liner sector. Peter has extensive experience advising hedge funds and investors on a variety of maritime investments in both equity and distressed debt. He is a Director of General Maritime Corp (NYSE), Seaspan Corporation (NYSE), TBS International (NASDAQ), and Trailer Bridge (NASDAQ). Peter is also a Director of The Containerization and Intermodal Institute and Vice Chairman of the Government sponsored Short Sea Shipping Co-operative. He holds a BA in International Business Law from the London Guildhall University. |
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Malcolm MacKinnon III , Admiral MacKinnon served in various executive and command positions with the U.S. Navy from 1955 until his retirement in 1990, including Deputy Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Ship Design and Engineering, Chief Engineer of the Navy, and Vice Commander, NAVSEA. He was Project Officer for the design and construction of SeaLab II, an underwater habitat, and directed the conceptual design efforts for the Trident and SSN 688 classes of nuclear submarines. He is active in the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the American Society of Naval Engineers. Admiral MacKinnon received a BS in naval science from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MS in naval architecture and marine engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on several National Research Council (NRC) committees, including the Marine Board Committee to review NOAA’s Fleet Replacement and Modernization Plan and Committee on Marine Transportation of Heavy Oils. |
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Ed Kelly, AMO National Vice President at Large |
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Ed Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is the first child of Marianne and Patrick Kelly, his mother was from Ballinsloe Co. Galway and his father from Castlelaney, Co Monaghan. Ed graduated from St. Matthews’s grammar school and then St. Francis Prep. In 1956, he graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York. Since graduation he sailed on Merchant ships and was called to active duty in the Navy. He retired as a Captain from the Navy in 1988. In 1993 he was appointed a Rear Admiral in the U.S.M.S. He also worked for Lockheed Aircraft and DynCorp. He is presently the Vice President of the American Maritime Officers a labor union that represents Mates and Engineers sailing on Deep Sea, Inland and Great Lake vessels.
Ed is the Past President of the Kings Point Club of Washington, Past President of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) Washington, DC chapter, a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Maritime Organization, Chairman and Board member of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Foundation, Project Acta; Member of Executive Board, Grad Pac.; Director Catholic Youth Organization, Washington, DC, Lector and Eucharistic minister at St. Matthews Cathedral and Church of the Little Flower, A Knight of Malta and a active member of the AOH., A past member of the D.C. parade committee and Vice President of D.C. Friends of Ireland.
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Captain Daniel K. Fuller speaking from the Calhoon M.E.B.A Engineering School, Easton, Maryland. |
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Captain Daniel K. Fuller is a 1972 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point). He has over 26 years of shipboard service in licensed officer positions aboard most types of merchant marine and offshore industry vessels, including 3 years as a pilot for ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Captain Fuller first became involved in the maritime segment of the LNG industry in 1978. He worked as an officer aboard LNG carriers operated by El Paso, Energy Transportation Corporation, GasTrans, and Ahrenkiel Ship Management (US). Including nearly 16 years of LNG carriers’ shipboard experience, to-date he has been involved with the LNG industry for over 21 years. Nearly 10 years of his LNG carriers’ shipboard time were as Master (Captain) of 125,000M3 LNG Carriers, mostly working in international spot and short-term time charter trade between multiple LNG terminals worldwide.
In addition to his shipboard experience, Captain Fuller was employed by Cabot’s Project Manager as a Project Technical Manager during the refurbishment and reactivation of the LNG carrier MATTHEW (ex-EL PASO HOWARD BOYD) brought out of long-term lay-up in 1999. He served three years as Special Projects and Labor Liaison (including LNG shipping portfolio) for MEBA and American Maritime Congress in Washington DC 1999 thru 2001, and developed and taught the initial Maritime LNG Operations & LNG Safety Familiarization training course for USCG marine safety inspectors at MITAGS in mid-1999. Commencing in 2005, Captain Fuller has been employed as an adjunct instructor teaching a USCG-approved two-week LNG course at the Calhoon MEBA Engineering School in Easton, MD. Attendees for the course have included representatives of the Canadian government agencies Transport Canada and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board.
Captain Fuller has been working as a consultant in the maritime segment of the LNG industry since early 2002. Consulting work to date has included:
- New LNG carrier berth siting and mooring arrangement input for the Elba Island LNG import terminal in Savanna, GA;
- Maritime port security assessment subcontractor work for the USCG;
- Input, analysis, and review participation in all marine-related and LNG storage and handling systems & operations planning for BHP Billiton’s U.S. West Coast Cabrillo Port LNG Deepwater Port Project; coordinating the project’s deepwater port and related shipping security assessments and planning; participating in project planning and informational meetings with the public and government agency representatives; coauthoring & coordinating a RFP for simulator & modeling research & training; and safe approach route options identification and approvals;
- Advising a company (name is confidential) concerning future LNG shipping projects’ labor sourcing options;
- Marine/LNG operations specialist member of the USCG-contracted ENTRIX 3rd party EIS development team tasked with the mandated 3rd party environmental review process for some of the proposed US LNG Deepwater Port projects.
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