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Marine News July 2026 Volume 37 Number 7

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

Editor’s Note

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While many sectors of the maritime market – ie. www.marinelink.com all things Navy, Coast Guard + autonomous vessel design and construction – continue to move at warp

CEO

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] speed, the promise of the Trump Administration’s ‘Maritime Renaissance’ continue to miss a dynamic

Publisher & Editor

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] and critical sector of the U.S. market: small- and mid-

Tel: 516-810-7405 sized boat commercial builders and operators, includ-

Contributing Writers ing the supply chains that feed them.

Joseph Keefe, Celia Konowe, Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz,

To put it in perspective, I’ve been in this maritime

Barry Parker editorial seat since August 1992 when I joined sister- publication Maritime Reporter & Engineering News as

PRODUCTION

Production & Graphics Manager managing editor. The early ‘90s were generally a bleak

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected]

Greg Trauthwein, Editor, time for much of the U.S. commercial maritime mar- [email protected] ket, which was still hungover from the after effects of

SALES the Reagan-era ‘600-Ship Navy’ plan and was in the

Vice President, Sales & Marketing midst of an oil price crash and the loss of the staple offshore oil and gas business in

Terry Breese • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 the Gulf. Long story short, when President Reagan pushed for a 600-ship navy, the majority of U.S. maritime entities dropped much commercial maritime design and

Advertising Sales Managers build work to help feed the high-ticket U.S. Navy business. But when the plug was

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6240 Fax: 212-254-6271 pulled on the navy build up – driven by the demise of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War – the U.S. industry found that the processes involved in serving navy

John Cagni • [email protected] contracts did not readily transfer to commercial competitiveness. Fast track to 2026

Tel: 631-472-2715 and you will ? nd many similarities and differences. While the push for resources for

Frank Covella • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 navy and defense work is real, there are many technology companies entering the boatbuilding space that are effectively reshaping the landscape. Take autonomous

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670 boat platform Saronic, for example: Saronic is a tech start-up that has raised more than $2.5B to date, leveraging that capital to quickly ramp-up its manufacturing

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

Tel: 516-441-7258 footprint, including a massive 500,000+ sq. ft. campus optimized for the assembly line-style production of its smaller 24-ft. Corsair ASVs; the acquisition of the former

CORPORATE STAFF

Gulf Craft shipyard in Franklin, Louisiana, 100-acres plus a massive $300m facility

Manager, Marketing expansion to focus on prototyping and manufacturing larger vessels; and last but

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] not least, Port Alpha, its long-term plan to develop a next-generation autonomous

Accounting shipyard. A most interesting point on the company made by CEO Dino Mavrookas

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 during our late 2025 interview: while it is gunning for Navy work, its taking a ‘com- mercial ? rst’ approach.

Manager, Info Tech Services

Vladimir Bibik

The focus on Saronic is neither praise nor endorsement, rather a powerful example of the the people, companies and trends driving U.S. shipyards today. What this all

CIRCULATION

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected] looks like 10, 20, 30 years from now … your guess is as good as mind. But when

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6320 we’re all done and dusted, the mid-2020’s will be viewed as a watershed moment in

U.S. maritime history.

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