Welcome to Highliner Maritime, LLC. We offer engineering and consulting services for the marine industry. We are passionate about what we do, and we have the expertise to help you solve your toughest marine-related problems. Contact us today.
Welcome to Highliner Maritime, LLC. We offer engineering and consulting services for the marine industry. We are passionate about what we do, and we have the expertise to help you solve your toughest marine-related problems. Contact us today.
We support clients from across the maritime industry. Major markets that we serve include:
Marine Construction
Full engineering support for marine construction companies, spanning crane and lift stability, structural modifications, lashings, grounding, tidal and current effects.
Designers & Builders
Engineering support for naval architecture firms and shipyards engaged in preliminary and contract design, hull or structural modifications to existing designs, and representation at shipyards.
Alaska Fishing Fleet
Engineering and regulatory support for the Alaska and Pacific Northwest fishing fleets, including a focus on small owner/operators, stability assessments, machinery modifications, and hull modifications.
Marine Transportation and Offshore
Engineering support for deck, cargo, tanker and supply barges and vessels, including stability, deck structural analysis, seafastening, route planning, station keeping, and regulatory compliance.
Our clients benefit from our technical and practical expertise in naval architecture and marine engineering. Some of our unique capabilities include:
Have a unique marine-related problem? Let us know! We are happy to discuss how we might be able to help. Contact us today.
Highliner Maritime, LLC is the combined effort of two friends and partners with very different backgrounds, united by a shared passion for the maritime industry.
Joseph Kennedy, PE
A licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Washington, Joseph has over 20 years of experience in the maritime industry, both at-sea and shoreside. He spent five years in the United States Navy, serving aboard the USS Higgins as a Hull Maintenance Technician. He spent eight years as a commercial fisherman in Alaska's Bering Sea. After returning to school to become an engineer, Joseph has accumulated a decade of experience related to vessel stability, structural and machinery modifications, and lifting operations, for commercial and government vessels, including US Navy submarines. He thinks about engineering problems from the perspective of the end user: the crewmember. He has a Merchant Mariner Credential (100 ton Master, 200 ton Mate, AB Unlimited) and a Bachelors Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of New Orleans. He is also US Top Secret clearance eligible.
Kyle E. Marlantes, PhD
Kyle is a technical expert in ship hydrodynamics, ship motions, and dynamic stability. With nearly a decade of experience developing and supporting custom hydrodynamics software tools for the maritime industry, if a tool doesn't exist to do the job -- or to do the job well -- he often creates it. He has consulted on topics related to hydrodynamics, seakeeping, crew comfort, and high-speed vessel seakeeping, and has published extensively on related topics. Before forming Highliner Maritime, LLC, he was a part-owner and Vice President at Creative Systems, Inc. the company behind the naval architecture software program GHS. His software tools have been used worldwide on marine construction, salvage, marine transportation, and seakeeping evaluations by companies, government agencies, universities, and classification societies. He holds PhD and MSE degrees from the University of Michigan, and a BSE from the University of New Orleans, in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
Complete CVs are available upon request.
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