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Security is Job One

M A R I N E L I N K . C O M

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John E. O’Malley

John C. O’Malley [email protected]

Associate Publisher/Editorial Director

Greg Trauthwein [email protected] and process exposes vessel owners to a

I, like many of you that have served this market for two decades plus, have had the

Vice President, Sales litany of cyber security threats globally. opportunity to travel to Houston, Texas, several times each year, watching it emerge

Rob Howard [email protected]

William P. Doyle, a Commissioner with from the energy downturn of the early 1990s to become one of the major hubs in the

Web Editor

Eric Haun [email protected] the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission

U.S. for the energy, maritime and subsea markets, as well as this country’s fourth

Web Contributor (and, as my colleague Joe Keefe likes largest city. I, like many of you, watched in amazement and horror as Hurricane

Michelle Howard [email protected] to consistently remind me, a graduate of

Harvey delivered an unprecedented and punishing hurricane and ? ood of biblical

Editorial the Massachusetts Maritime Academy) proportions, impacting a wide swath of the Gulf Coast. Stories have been pouring

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil warns that the maritime industry must in from our friends and colleagues in the region, and while recovery will be neither

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia ‘redouble’ efforts to secure IT systems easy nor fast, southern Texas, like Louisiana and Mississippi in the wake of Katrina, and data, lest they suffer the fate of will rebound.

Production

Maersk when its services were disrupt-

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] ed by the Petya Virus. Following Doyle

Earlier this summer I was in Denmark and Sweden for a week, primarily in

Corporate Staff on page 28 is Jame Espino’s breakdown

Malmö to put the ? nishing touches on our MOU with the World Maritime Univer-

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting of the USCG draft cyber guidelines for sity regarding a global maritime training survey, full details coming in this space

Information Technology maritime facilities.

shortly. While in the area I had the opportunity to meet with a long list of execu-

Vladimir Bibik

Emin Yuce

Maritime Security in another sense is tives, including Daniel Grunditz, the CTO of Chris-Marine. While I certainly knew covered by Edward Lundquist in this of the Chris-Marine brand and reputation, on this occasion – as I have found many

Subscription edition, with his overview of the new times in similar facility and shipyard visits around the globe – you really don’t

Kathleen Hickey [email protected]

U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ger- know a company until you sit with them in their of? ce. Grunditz is the feature of ald R. Ford, which houses an array of our “Voices” focus starting on page 22. On the surface, the Chris-Marine premise is

Sales technologies to help support its mission straight forward: diesel engine care. But when you dig a little deeper, as I was able

Lucia Annunziata [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220 in what is proving to be an increasingly to do in my few hours at the Chris-Marine headquarters in Sweden, you ? nd that

Terry Breese [email protected] unstable and unpredictable world.

+1 561 732 1185 this company of 120 employees with traditional engineering and heavy machinery

John Cagni [email protected] roots in fact transcends many of the topics and trends that we cover regularly in our 631-472-2715 +1 pages, namely the use of ‘Big Data’ and information to help it serve its clients – ves-

Frank Covella [email protected] +1 561 732 1659 sel owners and shipyards – more ef? ciently and effectively.

Mitch Engel [email protected] +1 561 732 0312

Mike Kozlowski [email protected]

Maritime Security is the main topic of this edition, and to be honest it could be the +1 561 733 2477 main topic of every edition, as it broadly encompasses so much that each of you see

Jean Vertucci [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 and do on a daily basis. The evolution cycle of the traditional ship owner is unlike anything we have seen in a generation, as the Amazon’s, Google’s and Uber’s of the world are pressing the tech envelope, squeezing ef? ciency to dizzying new heights

International Sales

Scandinavia along the way. But with the promise comes peril, as connecting ship, machinery

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