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Marine News May 2025 • Volume 36 Number 5

Contents

Features

Manson Construction 14 14 Insights: Fred Paup Manson Construction’s chairman discusses the evolution of the $500m business. By Greg Trauthwein 18 Reviving a Heavy Lift Giant Matt Fish, MD, Xenos Marine and Kevin 18

Teichman, T&T Salvage revived TX-10000.

By Greg Trauthwein 22 Update: Chickamauga Lock Project Nearly two decades long, the Chickamauga Lock

Project highlights the good, the bad and the ugly of USACE funding. 22 By Greg Trauthwein 26 Navigating Stormy Waters,

Consolidation Ahead Inland and Coastwise transport of oil and re? ned products were brightening. Now, all bets are off. By Barry Parker © Andrew Levine/Wirestock USACE Photo Xenos Marine

Creators/AdobeStock 26 4 Editor’s Note 12 Training 40 Fuel Transition Mariner Safety Drills Propane & Ports

By Heather Combs, Ripple Operations By Jim Bunsey, PERC 6 Authors 8 Washington Watch 34 Offshore Energy 42 Vessels Barge, Inland & Water Transport Is U.S. Offshore Wind Dead? 44 Deck Machinery

By J. Philip Nester, Benesch Law By Philip Lewis, Intelatus 45 Products 10 By the Numbers: 38 Tech File 46 Classi? ed Advertising USACE Funding 2018-2023 GravityVibe Self-Unloader 48 Advertisers Index

On the Cover

Before tariff events unfolded in late March 2025, markets for inland and coastwise transportation of oil and re? ned products were brightening. (Photo: Courtesy McAllister Transportation) 2 | MN May 2025