Left: Breanna Clayton; Right: Jessica Branham

Q&A: Meet the women behind Royal Barge Fleeting

Marine Log (ML): First off, tell us about Royal Barge Fleeting and how it got started? Jessica Branham (JB): I was approached by a member of Cummings Marine Board of Directors in

Liz Dassouki

WIMOs names Liz Dassouki development director

WIMOS (Women in Maritime Operations) has named Compass Maritime broker Elizabeth (Liz) Dassouki as its new development director, serving the WIMOs national board and the organization as a whole. In this role

WIMOs celebrates six years of women in maritime operations

WIMOs celebrates six years of female representation in maritime

In 2017, Kasey Eckstein and Jenna Gaudet started doing business together in maritime operations. In doing so, they realized the need for an organization that catered towards female professionals in maritime operations,

Holly Normand and Taylor Dickerson of WIMOs

Taylor Dickerson named new WIMOs president

As Holly Normand of Ingram Barge Company steps down from her role as executive president of the Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) Association, Kirby’s Taylor Dickerson has been named the new association

TTB 2023: Panel will focus on women in maritime challenges and successes

Recognizing women in maritime has been a part of Marine Log’s TTB (Tugs, Towboats & Barges) event for the last few years, and TTB 2023 will be no exception. On March 8,

WIMOs founder starts up diverse maritime recruitment agency 

Kasey Eckstein, founder and executive director of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs), is a name that the inland maritime industry knows well, and now she has started a new company aimed at

Left to Right: Del Wilkins, Jenny Johnson, and Kasey Eckstein.

TTB 2022: Workforce Panel on Recruitment, Retention and Diversity

On March 29—Day 1 of Marine Log’s TTB 2022 conference for the tug, towboat and barge industry—three expert panelists will discuss ways in which tug, towboat and barge companies can better recruit

Top Women in Maritime 2021

Honoring Marine Log’s Top Women in Maritime 2021

Bethann Rooney, Deputy Director of the Port Department at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Rooney manages the day-to-day administrative and operating functions and was named to the position

PODCAST: Women in Maritime Operations founder Kasey Eckstein

In this edition of Listen Up!, we talk with Kasey Eckstein, founder of Women in Maritime Operations (WIMOs) and director of business development at Atlas Marine Services, Taylor, Mich., to get a

FERRIES 2020 topics will include a focus on women in the passenger vessel industry

Kasey Eckstein, director of business development for Atlas Marine Services, will be among the speakers at Marine Log’s upcoming virtual FERRIES 2020 event being held November 9 and 10. In addition to