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Pushboats, Tugs & Barges

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Marine News March 2021 • Volume 32 Number 3

Contents

Features 22 WRDA 2020 Maritime business of? cials applauded passage of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA), which contains critical 22 waterways and harbor programs and policies.

The next steps will be critical.

By Tom Ewing 28 The U.S.’ First Purpose-built

Maritime Training Ships The new National Security Multi-Mission

Vessels (NSMV) being built at Philly Shipyard herald a new dawn for maritime training in the U.S.

MARAD James Lowe / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 28

By Tom Ewing 4 Editor’s Note 15 Column: Inland Waterways 36 Tech File:

By James Kearns

Graphene-based Coatings 6 Authors 18 Op/Ed: Training 37 Tech File: Autohydro Software

By David Hume 8 By the Numbers: 38 Vessels

Title XI Shipbuilding Loans 20 Op/Ed: Decarbonization

By Karrie Trauth and Tahir Faruqui 41 Products 10 Insights: Jennifer Carpenter, 42 People & Company News 34 Tech File:

President & CEO, American

Fernstrum’s Green Solutions 43 Editorial Calendar

Waterways Operators

On the Cover

Innumerable market and operational challenges have done little to prevent the tug, towing and barge industry from doing what it does best: pressing on.