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Authors Contributors &

Domenic Carlucci is currently Tom Ewing is a freelance writer the ABS Manager for Machinery, specializing in energy and envi-

Electrical and Controls Technol- ronmental issues.

ogy. Since joining ABS in 2008

Carlucci has held several senior Pat Folan is a partner in Tug &

MarineNews

March 2019 roles in asset integrity manage- Barge Solutions and has operat-

Volume 30 Number 3 ment, life cycle risk and reli- ed towing vessels from Maine to ability, design and plan review, Corpus Christi, TX, including the and product and service devel- Alabama Rivers, Lower Missis- opment. With extensive experi- sippi, Great Lakes and Erie Ca-

Carlucci ence in the marine and offshore nal. Tug & Barge Solutions exists industries, Carlucci’s expertise to help companies and mariners includes: hybrid power applica- adapt and then grow with Sub M. tions, ship systems operations Reach him at pat@tugandbarge- and maintenance, systems de- solutions.com signs, risk and reliability analy- sis (FMEA, RCM), and condition/ Robert Kunkel, President of performance monitoring. He Alternative Marine Technologies, served in the U.S. Navy as a previously served as the Federal

Nuclear trained Surface Warfare Chairman of the Short Sea Ship-

Offcer. Mr. Carlucci received ping Cooperative Program un- his Bachelors of Science in der the Maritime Administration

Mechanical Engineering from and the USDOT from 2003 until

Carpenter Escher

Duke University and a Master’s 2008. A past Vice President of in Business Administration from the Connecticut Maritime Associ-

University of Houston. ation, he is a contributing writer for MarineNews. A graduate

Jennifer A. Carpenter is Ex- of the Massachusetts Maritime ecutive Vice President and Chief Academy, Kunkel sailed as a li-

Operating Offcer of The Ameri- censed engineer and continued can Waterways Operators. his career in ship construction at NASSCO and Hyundai Heavy

In 1960, Tom Escher, the Industries, among others. He is grandson of the founder and a senior member of the Special now the current owner, started Committee on Ship Operation working as a sweeper and a me- with ABS and an elected mem-

Ewing Folan chanics helper on the Red and ber of the NCB.

White vessels. In 1997, Escher purchased the Red and White Lisa Overing is an award-win-

Fleet, becoming the third gen- ning marine journalist and copy- eration of the family to own and writer. Lisa served on the board operate the business. In Septem- of directors of Boating Writers ber 2018, Red and White Fleet Int’l from 2007 - 2012. She is welcomed Enhydra, the newest published in nine languages for and largest addition to the feet. some the world’s leading yacht-

Enhydra is the frst 600-passen- ing titles. Additionally, she is ger hybrid-drive vessel operating creative director for Megayacht in the United States. Escher will Media, an advertising agency for be building more zero pollution marine businesses. Email:

Kunkel

Overing passenger vessels. [email protected]

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