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Tactical Marine Solutions' Strengths:

  • Leading change
  • Joint venture and strategic partnerships
  • Strategic and operational planning
  • Forecasting, budgeting and cost controls
  • Developing new business
  • Recruiting and developing teams
  • Acquisition integration
  • Change management
  • Negotiating and closing deals
  • Public speaking
  • Removing roadblocks

Experience

Tactical Marine Solutions' principal, Dermot Loughnane, has the experience to bring specialist applied knowledge to your shipping needs


Dermot LoughnaneA Master Mariner (1988), Dermot has the practical experience of 14 years at sea, combined with shore positions in marine operations, chartering and business development in the shipping and oil and gas industries.

Before founding Tactical Marine Solutions he was Managing Director of the largest shipping company in Australia with 16 major vessels, 10 minor vessels and 1,000 employees. Earlier he managed the marine department of a Canadian oil company with freight responsibility of $100m annually, and formed and ran a high tech joint venture in Russia.

Dermot's hands-on experience spans such projects as:
  • Successfully integrating two shipping businesses, turning two money-losing entities into a profitable stable company
  • Raising the operating standards for a well aged fleet to be the equal of any modern fleet
  • Changing a big company bureaucracy into a performance-driven entrepreneurial culture that ensured accountability and personal responsibility
  • Developing a marine performancing (KPI) system to effectively monitor freight and expenses across an entire $100m+ freight program
  • Introducing a supply chain management program to reduce service supplier costs by 50% and freight costs by 10%
  • Implementing a commercial system to run worldwide marine operations of one of the world's largest shipping companies - integrating chartering, operations and accounting departments within head and external offices
  • Managing research projects for mining and oil company clients examining resources transportation feasibility
  • Projects for private and government clients concerning the risk of transporting hydrocarbons from the Arctic
  • Organising a joint venture with a Russian company to support the development of resources in the Russian Arctic, using overlapping technologies
  • Co-ordinating development of new shipping opportunities including the formation of a joint venture with a northern oil company for the import of oil into the circumpolar Arctic
  • Rewriting project for the ship handling and navigations section of Ice Navigation in Canadian Waters for the Canadian Coast Guard
Dermot has a DMS (post graduate) in Shipping Management, University of Plymouth (1991), and an MBA (1997) University of Ottawa, as well as Master Mariner (1988) qualification.

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