Whitehead elected IPC president

The International Propeller Club of the United States elected and installed its leaders for the coming year at its 91st annual convention. Representatives of the IPC’s more than 75 chapters around the globe elected retired Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joel Whitehead to a two-year term as president. Whitehead is a member of the Club’s Port of New Orleans chapter. He is president of J. Whitehead & Associates Inc., a maritime and homeland security consulting firm in the Washington, D.C. area. (Source: Maritime Logistics Professional 11/24/17) Gulf Coast Note: At the close of his 34-year career, Whitehead served for three as Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District in New Orleans. He was responsible for CG operations and oversight of the maritime and offshore oil industry in 26 states and the entire Gulf of Mexico; and 10,300 miles of inland waterways including the entire navigable lengths of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Tennessee River systems.