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Marine News September 2025 • Volume 36 Number 9

Contents

Features 8 8 Insights: Eddie Belk, USACE Edward (Eddie) Belk retired from USACE after 38 years of service. By Tracy Zea, President/CEO, Waterways Council, Inc. 20 Hybrid Patrol Boats 20 Interest in hybrid patrol boats is growing as boat builders demonstrate their many bene? ts.

By Wendy Laursen 28 Maritime Dominance Begins with

U.S. Ship Repair and Conversion Ship & boat repair & conversion is central to 28 rebuilding the U.S. maritime industrial base. By Bob Kunkel 34 Ferries Fast-Track Clean Propulsion Cleaner ops centered on reduced greenhouse gas and particulate emissions have seen wide adaption in the passenger transport space.

Tim Schenck Colonna’s Shipyard Marell Boats Waterways Council, Inc.

34 By Barry Parker 4 Editor’s Note 16 Digitalization 24 Repair Barge OS: Real-Time Visibility, Fire to Full Power: Restoring 6 Authors Predictive Intelligence to Barge Dutra’s TSHD Stuyvesant 10 Training By Greg Trauthwein Logistics Using Mistakes as Training Gold By Celia Konowe

By Heather Combs, CEO, Ripple 40 Vessels 12 Washington Watch 18 Fuel Transition 45 Products U.S. Reciprocal Tariffs & 8 Steps for Ports to Upgrade from Inbound Supply Chains 46 Classi? ed Advertising Diesel to Propane

By Jonathan Todd & Phil Nester, By Jim Bunsey, PERC 48 Advertisers Index Benesch Law

On the Cover

Ship & boat repair and conversion is a central plank in rebuilding the U.S. maritime industrial infrastructure, as mandated by the Trump Administration.

Pictured is Bayonne Dry Dock in Bayonne, NJ.

(Cover photo courtesy Bayonne Dry Dock) 2 | MN September 2025