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Johan Schild has spent nearly half a century at sea.
Johan Schild is an internationally trained maritime expert. In his more than 45 years of service, Schild has worked as a Port Captain, Salvage Master, consultant, and surveyor. Johan has founded and managed numerous maritime businesses and is currently the President and CEO of Marine Consultancy, LLC.
Johan Schild has worked on commercial and private vessels all over the world. His work is based in the Caribbean, along the Gulf Coast, the Netherlands, and Nigeria. Schild once supervised a project that involved transporting an entire gas gathering plant from New Orleans to Nigeria using barges and navigation systems.
During the complicated transport from Louisiana to Nigeria, Schild served as Transportation Manager and Tow Master. He carefully plotted a course, a tedious path that required carefully avoiding pipelines, oyster beds, and other structures during transport. Additionally, Johan Schild and his crew had to pay careful attention to shallow areas while navigating through Louisiana’s Barataria Waterway.
Johan Schild has had a variety of other experiences in anchoring and navigation. He used navigation technology and astute navigational skills during his time as the Captain and owner of a charter catamaran in the Caribbean with Steel Magnolia Charters. He also used these skills while working as the Captain of a container vessel for Dutch shipping companies.
Johan Schild's Companies
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Mooring Masters – A division of Marine Consultancy, LLC
2007
- Spanish Fort, Louisiana
President/CEO
Evaluate vessels for suitability of STS operations.
Sub-contractor for a commodities company to evaluate and designate Mooring Masters for Ship-to-Ship Transfers of bunkers in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic, etc.
Development and implementation of an Offshore Bunkering Operations Manual outlining safety guidelines, checklists and procedures for operations including inspections of all mooring materials (wires, shackles, fenders, chains, hoses, ropes, and other related gear.
Supervise fender rigging on all employed vessels.
Design fender rigging systems on various types of vessels, as well as all employed vessels.
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Marine Consultancy, LLC
2002
- Spanish Fort, Louisiana
President/CEO
Port Captain, Marine business consultant serving vessel owners, charterers, underwriters, P&I clubs, marine contractors and small business owners.
Assigned at various companies as Port Captain including but not limited to: Steigler Shipping, Scanworld, Dan-Gulf, Daewoo Engineering and Lysander Shipping.
Participated in maritime litigation cases as an expert witness with subject matter ranging from cargo, hull and personal injury cases, including cases involving mooring of vessels.
Hull and Cargo Surveys.
On behalf of Panama Bureau of Shipping, surveyed vessels afloat and in dry-dock, i.e. load line, safety, construction and accommodation surveys.
Transportation manager, installation manager and tow master in charge of transport of a gas gathering plant on two concrete barges from New Orleans, LA to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. The entire plant was transported on a semi submersible vessel. In the Awoba gas fields the structures were placed on underwater foundations and mooring with minimal tolerance.
Ship handling with a variety of vessel propulsion systems. Personnel safety, health and environmental protection supervision.
Inspection, marketing, negotiation and sale of boats, vessels, and other marine equipment.
Selecting and inspecting/surveying suitable vessels for the intended time charter voyage, as well as preparing voyage instructions for the crew, and loading & discharging instructions for stevedores.
Preparation of voyage and time charter parties.
Booking and negotiation of cargo.
Loading, discharging and securing cargo.
Terminal operation.
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