Mr. Schulz is President of the Ports of the Delaware River Marine Trade Association (PMTA), an organization of steamship agents, ship owners and direct employers that negotiates labor contracts in the Ports of Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington, Delaware, with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA).
Proceeds of the event will go directly to fund services offered by SCI, a 165-year-old ministry that provides for the spiritual, physical and emotional needs of the more than 65,000 seafarers that call at the regional port annually.
"Uwe Schulz has shown commitment, leadership and a personal dedication to the growth and success of our port region for more than a third of a century," said the Reverend James Von Dreele, CEO and Executive Director of SCI Philadelphia. "Most recently, his role in the forefront of The Maritime Stakeholders Group in working to ensure the viability of a superport for our waterfront region has brought remarkable attention to Philadelphia from interests around the world. This award is long overdue for Mr. Schulz."
He is a co-founder of the Maritime Stakeholders Group (MSG), a group that represents labor, management and other affiliated maritime businesses that promotes the maritime interests in the Delaware River Region in preserving maritime land for maritime use instead of residential and other commercial uses.
An active member in the Philadelphia Maritime Community, Uwe has served as President of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Maritime Society, Board of Directors of the Maritime Exchange, Seamen's Church Institute and Chilean/American Chamber of Commerce and as a Trustee of the PMTA-ILA Funds.
A seafarer himself, Schulz graduated with honors from the State University of New York Maritime College and joined Local 88 of the Master, Mates and Pilots. He served as a deck officer, including Master in the American Merchant Marine. He was also a Commissioned Officer in the United States Naval Reserve. Following a stint with Waterman Steamship Company, Uwe came ashore in 1972 for a 23-year tenure in various capacities with the former Associated Container Transportation (ACT) Pace/Blue Star Line in Port Elizabeth and then to Philadelphia, where he settled.
In other professionally related activities, Uwe serves as a Director of National Maritime Safety Association (NMSA) and is a Director of the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. (USMX), a management group that negotiates the Master Contract on the East and Gulf Coasts with the International ILA.
He has served as a visiting professor at the Maine Maritime Academy lecturing in Chartering and Maritime Contracts and has lectured as well at the University of Delaware Maritime Studies.
