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Marine News September 2025 Volume 36 Number 9

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

Editor’s Note

New York: 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271 ince the Trump administration retook the www.marinelink.com helm in January 2025, there has been much

CEO talk about the revitalization of the U.S. mari-

John C. O’Malley • [email protected]

Stime and industrial sectors. While there have

Publisher & Editor been a string headline-making deals which have seen

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected]

Tel: 516-810-7405 shipyards from around the world come to the U.S. shores to ink deals with U.S. ship and boat builders in

Contributing Writers

Joseph Keefe, Celia Konowe, Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, the quest to get a piece of the U.S. Navy or the Arctic

Barry Parker

Icebreaker ? eet rebuilds, medium and small yards – the heart of the U.S. maritime sectors – have mostly

PRODUCTION seen nothing to date.

Production & Graphics Manager

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected]

Critically, much of the spotlight has eluded a core

Greg Trauthwein, Editor, component of any country’s maritime infrastructure: [email protected]

Ship & Boat Repair and Conversion. This month

SALES

Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Bob Kunkel takes on the topic in typical Bob Kunkel

Terry Breese • [email protected] fashion: informed, experienced, straight to the point with BS to the side. I certainly

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 don’t want to steal Kunkel’s thunder, which starts on page 28, but his message can be

Advertising Sales Managers neatly summarized in two of the sentences he writes:

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271 • The quickest way to reestablish our manufacturing base and accomplish the

John Cagni • [email protected]

White House goals is understanding the importance of our repair yard capacity.

Tel: 631-472-2715

Frank Covella • [email protected] • All are ? xated on new construction for all of the wrong reasons. Yet most of us in

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 shipbuilding understand the majority of top-tier foreign yards in South Korea,

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

Japan and China started as repair yards.

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

Turning to the newbuild side, an exciting and growing prospect for new business

Tel: 516-441-7258 and innovation continues to be the ferry/passenger vessel market. While it’s safe to say that ‘emission reduction’ is not a national political imperative today, there are rap-

CORPORATE STAFF

Manager, Marketing idly advancing hybrid and all-electric technologies globally that are being deployed

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] in the U.S. newbuild market, too, and increasingly diesel/hybrid, all-electric and

Accounting even hydrogen – and the ferry market is the tip of the spear.

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

Regular Marine News contributor Barry Parker examines, starting on page 34, a

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 raft of new projects where all of the above and then some are being built into the

Manager, Info Tech Services ferry ? eets of today, many driven by individual organizations and municipalities that

Vladimir Bibik continue to prioritize performance and the environment. While Parker brings the

CIRCULATION emerging tech to the fore, he does so under the context of the ? nance behind it.

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320

Admittedly many of the new projects come with ? nancial triggers and support, and though ‘hybrid’ and ‘all-electric’ grab the headlines, diesel powered and fueled still do the vast majority of the work. But the tide is changing.

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