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18 Oct 2013

Maritime Training Expands to Meet Louisiana Gulf Demand

Employers are hiring in coastal Louisiana, especially as offshore drilling picks up in the Gulf of Mexico. Companies are concerned about finding enough skilled workers in a locally tight labor market. For mariners, a variety of training programs at different levels and costs are offered in south Louisiana. For those businesses without the significant wherewithal and training resources of a Kirby Corporation, for example, there are other viable options for training. Fletcher Technical Community College: The college’s Louisiana Marine and Petroleum Institute or LaMPI was founded in the late 1970s to provide local maritime training. The institute provides Coast Guard-approved courses to about 2,200 mariners a year now. Fletcher and LaMPI are located in Houma on the Louisiana Gulf.

03 Apr 2008

Martin Becomes CEO of Martin International

Martin International of Louisiana named Russell (Rusty) D. Martin as its new CEO.  This comes at a time when the school is celebrating over 26 years of quality U.S. Coast Guard license training.  Courses include U.S. Coast Guard Approved Offshore Installation Manager, Barge Supervisor, Ballast Control Operator, Able Seaman, Stability & Ballast Control for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, Radar Observer, Automatic Radar Plotting Aids, and First Aid/CPR.  Martin International is currently experiencing tremendous growth and Rusty Martin is leading the way.  Martin became captain of the company when he purchased it from his family and became the majority shareholder.

30 Apr 2001

USCG Regulations Lag Behind Offshore Activity

The loss of the world’s largest floating deepwater production platform, Petrobras’ P-36, last month off the coast of Brazil with the loss of 10 men will reverberate throughout the oil industry for years to come. We do not yet know what happened to the unit other than that there were reported to be three separate explosions after which the unit took on severe list of about 24 degrees and sank several days later. Was the unit unsafe? Was it operated improperly? We do not yet know the answers and may never know all the answers. Here in the U.S., the USCG continues to go forward with the regulatory project that would modify the rules on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).