Page 2: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (April 2023)

NO.4 / VOL. 85 / APRIL 2023

Photo on the cover and on this page courtesy Curtin Maritime 16 The Path to Zero: OSVs Power Fuel Transition

Departments

The fuel switch is on, it’s real and it will be driving vessel design, construction and operations decisions for decades to come.

4 Authors & Contributors

By Barry Parker 6 Editorial 8 By the Numbers: Japanese Shipowners 9 Training Tips for Ships 22 Interview: Kevin Sligh Sr., Director, BSEE 10 Offshore Floating Wind

After his ? rst year on the job at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforce- 12 Bridge Management ment (BSEE), Director Sligh discusses the challenges ahead in offshore wind.

16 The Path to Zero

By Greg Trauthwein 20 Interview: Kevin Sligh, Sr., Director, BSEE 39 Tech File 26 Curtin Maritime: Mining for Gold 40 In the Shipyard

Captain Martin Curtin built a maritime and dredging powerhouse. In an interview 45 Classi? eds with MR he gives blunt assessment of the choking impact of regulation that is 48 Buyer’s Directory ‘purely political fodder’; and the increasing challenge to ? nd the next generation.

48 Advertising Index

By Greg Trauthwein 36 Plotting Your Course

Tim Janssen and his Sofar Ocean crew are hyper focussed on extracting data from the ocean to improve weather routing via Way? nder.

By Greg Trauthwein 2 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2023

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