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Marine News September 2026 Volume 37 Number 9

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

Editor’s Note

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Since starting in the maritime industry in 1992 as www.marinelink.com managing editor of Maritime Reporter & Engineer- ing News, I’ve interviewed more than my fair share

CEO

John C. O’Malley • [email protected] of maritime industry leadership globally, and the best interviews are always face-to-face. So while it took

Publisher & Editor

Greg Trauthwein • [email protected] longer than I liked to have my ? rst interview with

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Stephen Carmel, Administrator, U.S. Maritime Ad-

Contributing Writers ministration, I respected the fact that he preferred

Joseph Keefe, Celia Konowe, Robert Kunkel, Rhonda Moniz, the in-person option. While attending the American

Barry Parker

Great Lakes Port Association’s annual meeting in

Chicago in late July, I was able to sequester Carmel

PRODUCTION

Production & Graphics Manager for more than an hour for a far-ranging conversation

Nicole Ventimiglia • [email protected]

Greg Trauthwein, Editor, and interview on all matters maritime. Trust when I [email protected] say, he did not disappoint. Previous to our meet in

SALES

Chicago, I did not know Carmel. But when he was

Vice President, Sales & Marketing nominated and con? rmed as Administrator, the consensus from some of my most

Terry Breese • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1185 Fax: 561-732-8414 trusted industry insiders was: “He’s the right man at the right time for this job.”

Our interview with Carmel in this edition of Marine News starts on page 22, but

Advertising Sales Managers this is the tip of the iceberg with much more to come across our various channels.

Lucia Annunziata • [email protected]

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Some of his choice insights: • On competing with China: “We cannot out-China the Chinese. We can’t beat

John Cagni • [email protected] the Chinese by being a cheaper version of China. That’s not how we’re going to win.

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We’re going to win by changing the terms of competition ... We have a peer competi-

Frank Covella • [email protected]

Tel: 561-732-1659 Fax: 561-732-8063 tor that is focused on dominating the maritime space.” • On nuclear propulsion: “SMR-powered nuclear technology will transform

Mike Kozlowski • [email protected]

Tel: 561-733-2477 Fax: 561-732-9670 trade and shipping every bit as much — or more — than the container did.” • On the importance of U.S. Inland waterways and the Great Lakes: The Great

Gary Lewis • [email protected]

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Lakes, the inland rivers, the ports, coastal waterways and the Arctic are all com- ponents of a single transportation and national-security network. Nowhere is the

CORPORATE STAFF weakness of that network more evident than on America’s inland waterways, which

Manager, Marketing he called “the absolute arteries of American commerce. We need some serious invest-

Mark O’Malley • [email protected] ment in the inland arteries that sustain the lifeblood of America: our ports, locks and

Accounting inland waterways system. It does no good at all to build out a robust seacoast if we’ve

Esther Rothenberger • [email protected]

Tel: 212-477-6700 ext 6810 let the interior of the country fall apart.” • On America’s biggest weakness [in a successful maritime revival]: “Our big-

Manager, Info Tech Services

Vladimir Bibik gest weakness — our biggest challenge — is our own attitude. We can revitalize our shipbuilding industry. We can revitalize our maritime industry. But we’re not going

CIRCULATION

Kathleen Hickey • [email protected] to get there if we abandon the ? ght before we take the ? eld.”

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