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on Q2 2013Terminal operations is a business that faces its fair share of challenges. Economic uncertainty, coupled with the demand to accommodate mega container ships, achieve faster turnaround times and accomplish far more with smaller budgets is weighing on the industry as a whole. Many terminals are also f
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- YoungShip’s Birgit Liodden page: 50
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on Q2 2013The new generation is now, and Liodden challenges maritime stakeholders to take a fresh look at how to recruit the industry’s future leaders. It takes energy to keep up with Oslo-based Birgit Liodden. Maritime Professional magazine nevertheless caught up with her long enough at the annual Connectic
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- Arctic Spill Response Heats Up page: 48
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on Q2 2013Nine oil and gas companies commit to advancing Arctic oil spill response. The oil and gas industry has made significant advances in being able to detect, contain and clean up spills in arctic environments. To further build on existing research and improve the technologies and methodologies for arc
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- From Norway to Brazil (and Back) page: 48
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on Q2 2013Norway’s involvement with this South American energy powerhouse predates the current oil boom. Today’s commerce model flows in both directions in ever increasing frequency and volumes. Make no mistake about it: Brazil is important to Norway. So important that the Norwegian government’s strategy for
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on Q2 2013From harvesting Canadian sealskins to breaking through Antarctic Ice, GC Rieber has always been at home in the world’s extreme environments. The business has now diversified into three key segments (ice support, seismic and subsea) and is focused on stability – balancing its ambitions with a conserv
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on Q2 2013When Energy flows to Money There is no argument: International maritime transport is the most energy efficient mode of mass transportation available today. The entire world fleet contributes less than 2.7% to global CO2 emissions according to a 2007 IMO report and those emissions are shrinking as “
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on Q2 2013HOS Moves to the Head of the Class with a carefully laid out master plan. By the end of next year, Hornbeck Offshore Services will have delivered 18 of the largest and most capable offshore supply vessels in the world. Concurrent with all of that, as many as 40 new drillships will also be delivere
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on Q2 2013U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Robert Papp takes (another) round turn. Almost three years since assuming command of the United States Coast Guard, Admiral Robert Papp still insists that his service will not be focusing on additional changes – not under his command. The reshuffling of organizational de
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on Q2 2013In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, there are enormous rebuilding efforts going on all around the waterfront. If you are a marine contractor participating in the rebuilding efforts, have you read your General Liability policy lately? The last thing that a marine contractor needs to worry about is
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on Q2 2013Maritime oil and gas business segments have exhibited mixed results in the past 12 months. In the United States, offshore business is slowly recovering from the devastating Macondo spill that resulted in an exodus of drilling assets to foreign shores. Service and equipment providers are showing caut
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- Insights: Registries Unwrapped page: 10
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on Q2 2013Debunking the myths about international ship registries, choice of classification society and a raft of other variables. Throughout the shipping world, ship registries, where a vessel is tied to laws of a particular nation, remain a subject of continual debate. As world trade has grown, registries
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on Q1 2013Costa Concordia: An opportunity for advancing human factor awareness? Will the casualty advance desirable critical thinking and cognitive awareness or merely trigger shortfall RRPP? A maritime casualty with everything a novelist could hope for – a huge state-of-the-art modern passenger vessel strik
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on Q1 2013Debating the merits of LNG as the preferred marine fuel; should you wait or dive right in? It’s much more complicated than you think. The case for the use of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) as marine fuel has been building steadily and has now achieved a position in the commercial propulsion equatio
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on Q1 2013Maritime security, over the last four years, has been synonymous with the effort launched by a multinational armada to combat the high seas criminality and the humanitarian and economic consequences of Somali piracy. The drama which has unfolded off the Horn of Africa, spreading into the Indian Ocea
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- CMA CGM - Showing the Way Forward page: 40
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on Q1 2013Success in a down market? It is possible, as MarPro found at one of the world’s largest carriers in one of shipping’s most volatile sectors. When CMA CGM signed a deal selling 49% of its Terminal Link division to China Merchants Holdings (International) for $535 million in January 2013, it sealed a
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on Q1 2013New technology, already in use by a major terminal operator, puts the requirement for 100% scanning of all inbound containers back on track. The breakthrough, however, represents so much more than that. In July 2007, U.S. legislators passed a law requiring 100% scanning of U.S. bound containers at
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on Q1 2013Anthony Chiarello, President & CEO, TOTE, Inc., is a fourth-generation maritime professional, starting with his great grandfather who owned a ferry service from Sicily to North Africa. When the family emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1800s, Chiarello Brothers (later changed to American Stevedores)
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on Q1 2013The recently announced promotion of Craig Perciavalle to President, Austal USA was a logical one. At Austal since 2007, he moves up after serving as Senior Vice President of Operations. Significantly, he oversaw Austal’s transition from a conventional commercial shipyard to an efficient, modular man
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on Q1 2013Risk is ubiquitous on the waterfront, and the effective identification, mitigation and management of that risk is critical to long-term success. Maritime Professional delivers insights from four acknowledged industry leaders from four distinct sectors and geographic regions as to the secret of their
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on Q1 2013Risk is a mantra at Det Norske Veritas (DNV), and to be fair, at every major classification society. By their very nature, the identification, management and mitigation of risk runs through every aspect of class. Sitting atop DNV – and if the recently announced merger goes through, the combined DNV