Mission and Programs

Our Mission:

• To advocate responsible and beneficial resolution of issues that are associated with international, regional, and local regulations governing sulphur transportation and logistics — from production facilities and terminals by rail, truck, barge, and marine vessel — on behalf of its members.
  
  
• To monitor, share, evaluate, address, and expand knowledge about environmental, health, and safety issues impacting sulphur operations, logistics, handling, and storage and improve global practices through information sharing.
  
  
• To encourage global sulphur use for industry stakeholders.
  
  
• To serve as the most predominant and reliable source of market information for the sulphur industry worldwide; to be a repository for historical databases; to monitor trends in sulphur and sulphur products markets worldwide and provide timely reports on events, issues and developments that impact the sulphur industry
  
  
• To maintain and provide information that can serve to inform and educate stakeholders and others on key targeted areas of sulphur advocacy and respond to potentially detrimental misinformation regarding sulphur, its origin, transportation, handling, storage and uses.
  
  
• To provide member support in areas where TSI has expertise.

Programs:

• Transportation Regulation & Logistics
        Jeff Angle, ConocoPhillips Company, Chair
        Steve Lassonde, International Commodities Export Corp. (ICEC), Vice Chair
  
  
• Sulphur Advocacy
        Robert McBride, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Chair
        Mike Lawrence, Martin Operating Partnership, L.P., Vice Chair
  
  
• Environment, Health & Safety
        Jack Cohn, Savage Services Corporation, Chair
        Tom Yarnick, ExxonMobil Refining and Supply, Vice Chair
  
  
• Sulphur Information & Image
        Peter Zissos, Shell Sulphur Solutions, Chair
        Ronald Sanchez, ConocoPhillips Company, Vice Chair

Our Vision:

TSI is the global advocate for sulphur, representing all stakeholders actively engaged in producing, buying, selling, handling, transporting, or adding value to sulphur. Our vision is to create a common voice for sulphur producers, consumers, and service providers to promote the ongoing and uninterrupted efficient and safe handling and transport of all sulphur products while protecting the best interests of the environment.