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Marine News March 2026 Volume 37 Number 3

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 have been at this for nearly 34 years now, and www.marinelink.com when the photos to accompany our feature on

Captain Paul C. LaMarre III came in, I can

CEO

John C. O’Malley • [email protected]

Isay there are few if any that have inspired me to belt out “God Bless America!” But as you’ll read

Publisher & Editor

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] starting on page 24, it’s far more than just a photo,

Tel: 516-810-7405 as LaMarre, the Port Director, Port of Monroe and

Contributing Writers

President, American Great Lakes Ports Association

Joseph Keefe, Celia Konowe, Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, [AGLPA], is a third-generation mariner that, as the

Barry Parker headline proclaims, is “From the Lakes, on the Lakes and for the Lakes.”

PRODUCTION

Production & Graphics Manager

As much as any U.S. coastal mega port, Gulf of

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected]

Greg Trauthwein, Editor,

America energy play or inland rivers tow and barge [email protected] business, the story of the Great Lakes is a quintes-

SALES sential U.S. maritime story, as true and blue as the

Vice President, Sales & Marketing 1897-built tugboat America that LaMarre captains. [yes, ‘1897’ … not a typo!].

Terry Breese • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414

LaMarre is a strong voice for the U.S. maritime sector as a whole, and when talk turned to the much-discussed and politically-hyped, but yet-to-crystalize into a fully

Advertising Sales Managers funded U.S. shipbuilding and maritime renaissance, he’s succinct:

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271 “My family has scars all over our bodies from decades of trying to restore America’s

John Cagni • [email protected] maritime dominance, as I’m sure many [reading] this interview will feel the same

Tel: 631-472-2715 way. The Great Lakes is a unique area because the Lakers have a following, and

Frank Covella • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 people are aware of the vessels, who they are owned by, who they work for, what they’re carrying. We aren’t talking about commercial goods from places like China.

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

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

We’re talking about the raw materials that fuel industrial America: the iron ore that is in the steel in your automobile, the coal that’s keeping your lights on, the limestone

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

Tel: 516-441-7258 that’s in your driveway and the grain that’s on your kitchen table.”

CORPORATE STAFF

Looking down toward the Gulf of America and that other highly valuable U.S.

Manager, Marketing commodity – oil and gas – Barry Parker writes that the outlook for the offshore sup-

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] port vessel (OSV) business has brightened considerably since the dark days of the

Accounting previous decade and is possibly in a “Goldilocks moment” — not too weak and not

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 too strong, with money starting to ? ow back in … albeit slowly. The wild card here, of course, the depth and breadth of the recently started war in the Middle East. At

Manager, Info Tech Services

Vladimir Bibik the time of the writing three short weeks ago, oil had settled in the $60 range, only to spike more than 30% almost overnight as uncertainty surrounding nearly 20%

CIRCULATION

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected] of the world’s oil supply comes into question with the close of the Strait of Hormuz.

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320

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