Dermot Loughnane

Dermot Loughnane

Principal consultant at Tactical Marine Solutions Ltd.

British Columbia, Canada

Current
  • Principal consultant at Tactical Marine Solutions Ltd.
Past
  • President and CEO at Skaugen PetroTrans
  • Managing Director at Teekay Australia
  • Director, Commercial Systems Integration at Teekay Shipping
  • Manager Marine at Petro Canada
  • Director, Operations at Canarctic Shipping Company Ltd.
Education
  • University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
  • University of Plymouth
  • Camosun College
Connections
88 connections
Industry
Maritime
Websites

Dermot Loughnane’s Summary

Performance-driven, entrepreneurial executive with domestic and international experience in operations, business development, strategic planning, in both start-up and growth organizations. Thrives in dynamic and fluid environments while remaining pragmatic and focused.

Dermot Loughnane’s Specialties:

Talented in developing new business and contract negotiation in diverse trades and in an international context. Self-starter with track record of initiative, personal responsibility, ownership of work and reputation for removing obstacles and making things happen.


Dermot Loughnane’s Experience

  • Principal consultant

    Tactical Marine Solutions Ltd.

    (Maritime industry)

    November 2007Present (2 years 1 month)

    A marine management consultancy with the proven ability to lower costs and improve the performance of your shipping operations

    Tactical Marine Solutions offers shipping companies and their customers - the marine departments of energy and resources companies - better solutions to complex or under performing shipping systems.

    We introduce performancing systems that not only implement the right KPIs, but also establish a feedback loop to constantly improve your operations, long after we have left.

  • President and CEO

    Skaugen PetroTrans

    (Maritime industry)

    October 2006November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

    Skaugen PetroTrans (SPT) is a jointly owned company of I.M Skaugen ASA (50%) and Teekay Shipping Corporation (50%). SPT is the world's largest company performing ship-to-ship
    transfers of crude oil and operates out of Houston, Texas. On a daily basis, SPT lighter 1.1 million barrels of crude a day, or 15%of all seaborne crude oil into US ports. SPT operates 9 Aframax tankers and 8 Lightering Support Vessels.

    My responsibility at SPT was to establish the vision for SPT and communicate that vision to the employees so as to engage and motivate them to succeed. I lead the strategic process to establish
    the strategies, tactics and plans to implement the vision.

  • Managing Director

    Teekay Australia

    (Maritime industry)

    April 2003January 2007 (3 years 10 months)

    Teekay Shipping (Australia) is the largest owner and operator of ships in Australia. As Managing Director I was fully responsible for 800 employees, 16 ships, 10 tugs, with gross annual revenue of over $100 million AUD.

    The primary objective and job purpose of the position of Managing Director, Australia is to ensure that the Company fleet operates efficiently in a safe and environmentally sound manner and that it provides a competitive, reliable shipping service in the carriage of crude oil and finished products. Teekay Australia is a profit centre and as such was supported by growing business in ship management and marine services.

  • Director, Commercial Systems Integration

    Teekay Shipping

    (Public Company; TK; Maritime industry)

    March 2001April 2003 (2 years 2 months)

    Lead a complex programme to implement an integrated commercial system to run worldwide marine operations. This system now runs across multiple departments (chartering, operations and accounting) within head and external offices and in order to be successful it required me to build consensus amongst most of the senior management of the company.

  • Manager Marine

    Petro Canada

    (Public Company; Oil & Energy industry)

    February 1997February 2001 (4 years 1 month)

    Headed the Marine department responsible for all marine activity in Petro-Canada, both in the Upstream and Downstream. The breadth of Petro-Canada’s refining and marketing operations required me to work with a number of departments to implement the company
    marine policy, both within Canada and without. My department was responsible for transportation of all crude oil as well as other imported feedstocks and distribution by sea of the finished products.

  • Director, Operations

    Canarctic Shipping Company Ltd.

    (Maritime industry)

    19951997 (2 years )


Dermot Loughnane’s Education

  • University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

    MBA , Finance , 19951997

  • University of Plymouth

    DMS , Shipping and Transportation Management , 19901991

  • Camosun College

    Master Mariner , 19881988


Additional Information

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Dermot Loughnane’s Groups:

  •    KIVA
  •    Maritime Executive
  •    University of Plymouth Alumni Network
  •    Arctic Exploration and Production

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  • new ventures
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