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Marine News May 2025 Volume 36 Number 5

Marine News (ISSN#1087-3864) (USPS#013-952)

Editor’s Note

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We’ve been talking about ‘the next generation’ for longer than I can remember, and when you look up

CEO and down the waterfront, we, as an industry, are in-

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] deed ‘aging out’ and a clear line of succession is fuzzy

Publisher & Editor at best. But the tide will turn, particularly as industry

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] leaders such as Crowley and Saltchuk increasingly ex-

Contributing Writers tend their outreach to younger and younger sets of

Joseph Keefe, Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, Barry Parker eyes, ears and minds. Scan the QR code to the left to read the April 2025 eMag edition dedicated to the

PRODUCTION

Production & Graphics Manager maritime workforce development.

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected]

Looking ahead to the cumulative towboat, tugboat and barge market, companies serving the critical role

SALES

Greg Trauthwein, Editor, of moving raw material and ? nished goods in and

Vice President, Sales & Marketing [email protected] around the US’ vast waterway system are in the same

Terry Breese • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 boat – no pun intended – as every other corporate leader that has faced uncertainty in the wake of the re-

Scan to read

Advertising Sales Managers the April 2025 cent tariff blitz that has momentarily upended many

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected] eMag edition

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271 markets and traditional trade patterns. Per usual, the best way to cut through the smoke and mirrors is to

John Cagni • [email protected] follow the money, and in this edition we’re pleased to

Tel: 631-472-2715 have Barry Parker take a fresh look at several industry

Frank Covella • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 leaders, from Kirby to Moran to McAllister and many points in between to see how markets, money and assets are moving. In maritime, now faced with unsettled mar-

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670 kets, a push to decarbonize and the true advent of digital revolution, scale is increas- ingly important and if you want the “Cliff’s Notes” version of Parker’s article it comes

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

Tel: 516-441-7258 down to one word: CONSOLIDATION.

While general market’s spasms and moves to slash government spending have re- sulted in uncertainty, I see palpable excitement. I’ve covered this market for more

CORPORATE STAFF than 33 years, and in the last four months I’ve heard more from the federal level on

Manager, Marketing

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] maritime – more attention, more action and more pledge of investment in the U.S. shipbuilding – than I’ve heard cumulatively in the last three decades.

Accounting

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

On a ? nal note, I’d like to leave you with a ‘great read alert’. It’s certainly not new,

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 but if you’ve not read “FREEDOM’s FORGE” by Arthur Herman, pick it up today.

Manager, Info Tech Services

The book was recommended to me by FMD CEO George Whittier, and it is an

Vladimir Bibik inside look at the U.S. industrial machine, it’s build-up and role in helping the U.S.

CIRCULATION secure victory in WWII. There’s a passage that summarizes the geopolitical climate,

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected] the political climate, the state of the U.S Navy and the prevalence of ‘misinformation’

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320 from the media, and when I read it I literally stopped and asked myself “is this the 1930s or 2025?” The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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