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Marine News March 2026 • Volume 37 Number 3

Contents

Features 18 18 U.S Shipbuilding Arctic ice is now a U.S shipbuilding thermostat –

Let’s turn up the heat!

By Bob Kunkel 24 Captain Paul C. LaMarre III From the Lakes, on the Lakes and for the Lakes,

Captain LaMarre discusses building ports, people & opportunities on the Great Lakes.

By Greg Trauthwein 24 32 A Measured Recovery for the

OSV Market The outlook for the offshore support vessel (OSV) business has brightened considerably since the dark days of the previous decade and is possibly in a “Goldilocks moment” — not too weak and not too strong. By Barry Parker

HOS American Great Lakes Ports Association ILS Ship Design & Engineering 32 4 Editor’s Note 14 Washington Watch 38 Tech Feature

U.S.-Venezula Relations Digitalization and Icebreaking 6 Authors

By Mark Ignash

By J. Philip Nester 8 By the Numbers 16 Event Update By Greg Trauthwein 42 Vessels Maritime Risk Symposium 2026 10 Insights 45 Products By By Dr. Joe DiRenzo III, CDR Aimee Andres, Executive Director, Robert Crane, USCGR (Ret), 46 Classi? ed Advertising and Colonel Randy Pugh, USMC (Ret) Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals 48 Advertisers Index By Greg Trauthwein

On the Cover

Capt. Paul C. LaMarre III, Port Director, Port of Monroe and President,

American Great Lakes Ports Association [AGLPA] gives insights on the operating ef? ciently, effectively and safely on the Great Lakes system – the

United States’ ‘Fourth Sea’.

© American Great Lakes Ports Association 2 | MN March 2026