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Marine News March 2025 Volume 36 Number 3

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

Editor’s Note

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The ? nal two months of 2024 and the ? rst two in www.marinelink.com 2025 that followed were, in a word, a whirlwind for me.

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I could very well be talking about the recent elections,

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] but instead, I reference the renewed privilege of being

Publisher & Editorial Director trusted at the helm of MarineNews after a ? ve-year hia-

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] tus in retirement. The work is never easy, nor boring.

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At the same time, my enjoyment in seeing the ? nished

Joe Keefe • [email protected] product never ends. As I pass the baton back into better

Tel: 704-661-8475 hands, [my] long-suffering readers should know that I

Contributing Writers intend to continue contributing to this brand; as need-

Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, Barry Parker, Jeff Vogel ed and as directed by the publisher. I look forward to it.

PRODUCTION

This edition of MarineNews is particularly strong;

Production & Graphics Manager

Joseph Keefe, Editor,

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected] ticking all boxes on the editorial calendar with im- [email protected] pactful submissions, and a raft of information which will no doubt strengthen your brand, products and

SALES

Vice President, Sales & Marketing services. Maritime attorney Jeff Vogel returns to our pages this month with a tightly

Terry Breese • [email protected] woven synopsis of what’s happening inside the Beltway. And, the whirlwind there is

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 spinning particularly fast these days. There is much emphasis in the so-called main-

Advertising Sales Managers stream media about the impacts of DOGE and the new President’s policy changes on

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected] the general economy. As Mr. Vogel shows us, the impact to the collective domestic

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271 waterfront is, and promises to be even more impactful.

John Cagni • [email protected]

Separately, and no less important, our feature article is based in part on an unusu-

Tel: 631-472-2715 ally candid interview with Kasper Karlsen, Global Chief Operating Of? cer of the

Frank Covella • [email protected]

Svitzer Group. Svitzer doesn’t operate a single vessel in the Jones Act arena, but what

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 their 4,000 employees do (and how they do it) on board 456 far-? ung boats located

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected] in 141 ports and 37 countries around the globe, in a word, matters. Domestic mari-

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670 ners and operators of our impressive ? eet of ~4,000 workboats can, and should take

Gary Lewis • [email protected] notice. The story starts on page 26.

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Regular MarineNews contributor Rhonda Moniz is back this month, reporting on the enormously vital U.S. oceanographic research community, which depends

CORPORATE STAFF

Manager, Marketing on a complex network of ships and institutions for scienti? c discovery at sea. The

Mark O’Malley • [email protected]

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) is the central or-

Accounting ganization that provides scientists with access to advanced research ships and tech-

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected] nology to explore the world’s oceans. The challenges of keeping those ships a? oat and

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 in compliance is daunting. Follow along as Rhonda tells us why.

Manager, Info Tech Services

As always, no issue of MarineNews is complete without our long-running INSIGHTS

Vladimir Bibik feature. AWO President & CEO Jennifer Carpenter this month weighs in on the oner-

CIRCULATION ous California 2022 amendments to the Commercial Harbor Craft rule, a move that

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320 industry leaders, including AWO’s Carpenter, have called both “draconian and danger- ous.” They are spot on. Turn the page to ? nd out why. Meanwhile, and for our domestic

TO SUBSCRIBE: waterfront, the New Year’s ? rst quarter has been nothing short of a whirlwind. That’s

Subscriptions to Marine News (6 printed issues) for one year are not going to change any time soon. Looking ahead, you can keep abeam of new devel- available for $50.00; Two years (12 printed issues) for $80.00.

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