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Marine News September 2026 • Volume 37 Number 9

Contributors 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Robert Kunkel 4 Phil Nester is president of Alternative Marine Technologies and First is a Partner with the Transportation & Logistics Practice

Harvest Navigation, served as the Federal Chairman of the Group. He may be reached by telephone at 1-216-363-6240

Short Sea Shipping Cooperative Program under the DOT’s or by e-mail at [email protected].

MARAD from 2003 until 2008. He writes regularly for

Marine News.

5 Bianca Pielaat

With more than 25 years of seagoing experience, Bianca 2 Philip Lewis Pielaat is the Operations Director at Multraship, with a fo- is Director Research at Intelatus Global Partners. He has cus on building and developing the tug crews of the future.

extensive market analysis and strategic planning experience in the global energy, maritime and offshore oil and gas sec- 6 Barry Parker tors. Intelatus Global Partners has been formed from the of bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tactical sup- merger of International Maritime Associates and World port, including analytics and communications, to businesses

Energy Reports.

across the maritime spectrum. He is a freelance writer and regular contributor to this magazine.

3 Erik Milito is the president of the National Ocean Industries Associa- tion (NOIA), representing the interests of the offshore oil, gas, wind, carbon capture, and ocean mineral industries.

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