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- The Crowley Way page: 32
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on Q1 2014Walk in the front door at Crowley Maritime Corporation HQ in Jacksonville, Fla., and you learn nearly everything you need to know about the company. With your visitor’s badge, you are handed a “Safety and Evacuation” brochure, and the person you are there to meet – in our case Tom Crowley, Jr. – wal
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on Q1 2014Early adopters use performance monitoring and condition-based maintenance tools to cut costs, head off breakdowns, find efficiencies and ensure compliance. The only thing harder than finding a needle in a haystack, is finding the sharpest points in a haystack full of needles, which is essentially t
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on Q1 2014With a new simulator in full operation, SCI helps mariners complete assessments previously only available in large class settings or in the real world when exact conditions could be met on the water. The simulator offers affordable one-on-one assessments to help meet individualized training goals, o
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on Q1 2014Hobart Brothers Company’s Hobart 610 stick electrode features a concentric design, ensuring an even coating along its entire length and consistent arc performance. Operators gain greater control and weld quality as a result, along with reliable weld penetration and arc stability. The stick electrode
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on Q1 2014Jargoon announced that a new interface to AIS Hub has been added to Seall Passage Planner (SPP). The versatile passage planning software which was launched in November 2013, provides AIS by using the SPP Virtual AIS Radar. This allows quick access to vessel traffic within the coverage of the Hub’s t
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- Registries: Strength in Numbers page: 28
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on Q1 2014100m gt strong, International Registries and the Republic of the Marshall Islands Registry prove that quality and safety are not mutually exclusive. When International Registries, Inc. and its affiliates (IRI) and Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Registry recently pushed through 100 million
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- The Changing Face of Piracy page: 24
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on Q1 2014Rich Energy Targets helps to keep Piracy in the Public Spotlight The release of the Captain Phillips movie starring Tom Hanks in October 2013 and the hijacking of two Americans off the coast of Nigeria have brought more public attention to the oldest of all maritime risks: piracy. While piracy has
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- Energy: Moving it & Using it page: 8
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on Q1 2014Energy. We start 2014 with great energy and optimism for a robust and prosperous year in this, the most international of all businesses. That enthusiasm, however, should be tempered with the knowledge of what is in store for maritime stakeholders in terms of regulatory, financial and operational pre
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on Q1 2014Chief Maritime Officer and EVP, Carnival Corporation & PLC When Vice Admiral (ret) Burke joined Carnival Corporation & plc in December of 2013 as Executive Vice President and Chief Maritime Officer of Corporate Maritime Operations, it is likely that the way cruise ship lines do business may have
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- Cruising Beyond Compliance page: 16
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on Q1 2014The global cruise industry quietly takes a prime mover role in maritime scrubber technology. That’s just smart business. A recent issue of Virtuoso Life, a glossy magazine aimed at upscale travelers, featured a short article highlighting Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess, christened by Duchess Kat
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- Energy Growth Fuels Transactions page: 10
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on Q1 2014North America’s energy revolution is starting to have a profound impact on the maritime and offshore sectors. North America is undergoing a gradual revolution in energy production, and the transformation has begun to have a profound impact on the maritime and offshore sectors. Despite a few volat
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- Aker Rhymes with “Soccer” page: 8
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on Q4 2013In an extraordinary end to an unusually buoyant year for U.S. shipyards, a flurry of new blue water, commercial orders flooded into Tier I shipbuilders in the fourth quarter of 2013. As the year comes to a close, the biggest problem facing U.S. builders was solving the quandary of how to find, train
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on Q4 2013Domestic shipyards get creative in its approach to finding, training and keeping qualified shipfitters. The domestic, U.S. shipbuilding boom is here: blue water, brown water, offshore support, inland, and export maritime security platforms, too. The robust comeback has just about everyone on this s
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on Q4 2013When we caught up with NASSCO’s Parker Larson in December, he had only just been promoted to Director of Commercial Programs at the sprawling San Diego, Calif. shipyard. Previously NASSCO’s Program Manager for Commercial Contracts, he no doubt played a large role in the recent high profile deals won
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- When is a Ship Not a Ship? page: 18
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on Q4 2013Does your insurance coverage fit your operation? No business likes to hear the word “denied” from their insurance company. But when a business purchases an insurance policy, it enters into a contract that carefully outlines what insurance protection is being offered to the business, and what is not
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on Q4 2013Why the wild ride for company valuations? The financial crisis and global recession that began in 2008 had a major impact on almost every major world industry. Its effects can be examined by analyzing historical data and trends for the highly cyclical maritime industry, including both public comp
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on Q4 2013With “America’s Energy Renaissance” oil trade patterns are changing. The impact is far reaching, but not easily defined. Ship spotters around the Hudson River, which snakes north from New York towards Albany, have been abuzz since the middle of the year when the medium range (MR) tanker Afrodit
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on Q4 2013Ready or not, here it comes. Are you prepared? In March 2012, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) amended its regulations on ballast water management by establishing standards for the allowable concentration of marine organisms in ballast waters discharged in ports and coastal areas of the United States. T
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on Q4 2013As maritime security evolves, so too is the need for increased and standardized professionalism in the ranks of Private Maritime Security Companies. In many respects, the maritime security industry is still in adolescence. The growing pains associated with speed of expansion have led to disparity
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on Q4 2013Technology Can Drive Risk Management as Maritime Professionals Optimize Security The job responsibilities of Maritime Professionals inevitably include the requirement to understand risks, analyze options for risk mitigation, and make strategic and tactical decisions to ensure the viability of the