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Marine News January 2025 Volume 36 Number 1

Marine News (ISSN#1087-3864) (USPS#013-952)

Editor’s Note

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As the New Year kicks off, the air is fairly crack- www.marinelink.com ling with electricity. That’s not because of the holiday

CEO lights; nor is it not meant to be a metaphor. This is also

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] a good time to admit that I was wrong: I never in my

Publisher & Editorial Director wildest dreams thought that the electri? cation of ma-

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] rine vessels would evolve to where it is now. I believed

Editor that the so-called “hour of power” needed by harbor

Joe Keefe • [email protected]

Tel: 704-661-8475 tugs and workboats would always necessitate the use of internal combustion engines. That’s no longer true.

Contributing Writers

Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, Barry Parker, Jeff Vogel

Batteries have evolved to a point where increasingly smaller packages pack bigger power payloads.

PRODUCTION

Production & Graphics Manager

The headliner for this edition, however, is Passen-

Joseph Keefe, Editor,

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected] ger Vessels and nowhere else is the use of hybrid and [email protected] pure electric propulsion solutions more prevalent to-

SALES day. That’s largely a function of point-to-point, regu-

Vice President, Sales & Marketing lar routing where recharging can conveniently take place. As Barry Parker’s focused

Terry Breese • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 article on the recapitalization of the domestic passenger vessel ? eet shows, the many newbuilds hitting the water are far cleaner and more economical than their work-

Advertising Sales Managers horse predecessors. Small and midsized yards are busy, and that’s a very good thing.

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271

What’s happening in those yards is all the more remarkable. To that end, also in this edition, Rhonda Moniz takes a close look at what Siemens Energy is doing to speed

John Cagni • [email protected] up the decarbonization of the passenger vessel industry. It just might surprise you.

Tel: 631-472-2715

This edition also digs deep into domestic dredging. We sat down with Dredging Con-

Frank Covella • [email protected] tractors of America’s CEO, Bill Doyle, in December. Never at a loss for words, Bill also

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 shows himself to be the ideal leader for the nation’s dredging companies, advocating on

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670 their behalf where necessary, and producing a plethora of data to back it all up. It turns out that dredging is far more sophisticated business than one might think, led by forward-

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

Tel: 516-441-7258 thinking executives who have rolled up their sleeves to renew and improve an already impressive collection of niche workboats. That’s a discussion you won’t want to miss.

CORPORATE STAFF

If all of the foregoing weren’t enough, this month’s edition also addresses one of the

Manager, Marketing biggest worries on the American waterfront. The supply of quali? ed mariners is arguably

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] inadequate for the next sealift crisis, but there are also concerns that what today’s cadets

Accounting are being trained to do, isn’t what they’ll be needed for. Armed with a raft of statistics

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 and data, we look at all that, and more. Along the way, we discovered that the U.S. Mari- time Administration is doing all it can to make sure that we’ve got adequate manpower.

Manager, Info Tech Services

Vladimir Bibik

Actually, what we really need is more “woman” power. Turn the page and discover why.

Circling back to electricity – apparently the future of workboat propulsion – it

CIRCULATION

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected] is also clear that the advent of batteries and electric propulsion present their own

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320 unique challenges, especially in way of safety. All those new ferries and mariners need to be protected. It turns out that industry has that covered as well. In this edition,

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