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SHORTSEA SHIPPING ? fth Hybrid delivery. More Hybrid

Embracing Domestic Sustainability applications will come.

U.S. shipbuilding and a small sec-

New technology and a Farmer’s tor of domestic operators have already embraced the sustainability model by Market mentality is our path for- ward. Build quality and innovation. building the ? rst LNG propelled con- tainer ships and LNG bunker barges. The Jones Act debate is a tireless loop

Environmental considerations took and the domestic ? eet will not be a precedent in those decisions and they continuous series build nor should it should be recognized for that effort. be a rush to an overstated market and

We need to continue this path in our or be marketed to provide military shipbuilding practices and move away comfort. The speed of technological from generic designs and machinery information will no longer allow ships that will be obsolete within the next operating on our coasts that are 30 to 40 years of age. Be disruptive, look decade. The tag is correct. It is ‘dis- ruptive’ to current operations and towards sustainability and understand with that said we should recognize the costs associated with that environ- mental strategy. We can be competi- that we could create a local sustain- able marketplace. No different than tive in that market.

Be local, ship local, buy local – organic agriculture creating its farm- er’s markets to move and sell fresh that is domestic shipping. That is our quality product priced above the large Farmer’s market. box stores.

In a digital world, the introduction of innovative technology is a daily function of social media and Inter- net activity. The future of shipping is discussed everyday within Amazon,

Robert Kunkel, President

Facebook and Instagram. Rolls Royce of Alternative Marine and Wartsila design departments are

Technologies, previously introducing unmanned platforms served as the Federal working off of data provided by cur-

Chairman of the Short Sea Shipping rent AIS systems and long range traf-

Cooperative Program under the ? c centers to move autonomous trans-

Maritime Administration and port forward. Battery technology, gas the USDOT from 2003 until technology, fuel cell technology – all 2008. A past Vice President of the theoretical applications ten years ago

Connecticut Maritime Association, in automotive and aircraft design – he is a contributing writer for is now being applied to all form of

MarineNews. A graduate of the transport including shipping.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy,

Scandlines has christened their

Kunkel sailed as a licensed engineer newest hybrid ferry, the M/V Berlin and continued his career in ship as part of ambitious environmental construction at NASSCO and strategy. A hybrid propulsion system

Hyundai Heavy Industries, among powered by a Corvus Energy ESS others. He is a senior member of (Energy Storage System) is capable of the Special Committee on Ship producing 6000 kW or nearly half of

Operation with ABS and an elected the diesel electric propulsion system member of the NCB.

design of 15,500 kW. This is their www.marinelink.com

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