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COVER STORY CURTIN MARITIME

The United States historically has been a capitalist’s dream, providing opportunity to those with a vision and the gumption to take the risks to turn that vision into reality. Martin &Xrtin a young tugboat captain with a dream and an entrepreneurial spirit, started Curtin

Maritime in 1997, growing the business from a single, converted large army tug to a company with a large and growing ? eet, employing 270 today. While the company succeeds, it and its brethren face challenges aplenty, choked by regulation; and increased costs to ? nd and groom the quali? ed crews to power the next generation.

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