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Eric Haun [email protected] ersonally and professionally I have always considered myself a “glass half full”

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Michelle Howard [email protected] kind of guy. Optimistic perhaps to a point of annoyance to those personally closest to me, in business I’ve found this trait of assistance in evaluating the various forces

Editorial

Joseph Fonseca - India that drive the maritime industries. Today, admittedly, it’s hard to ? nd optimism in

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil

Peter Pospiech - Germany any of the maritime niches. The tanker market stands strong, but the historical pen- chant for overbuilding when times are high has more than a few sounding warning

Production bells. The cruise shipping industry is on a historic run, but in the grand scheme of

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Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] global maritime it is miniscule.

Corporate Staff

Despite pervasive negativity, the overview ‘silver lining’ is the fact that the maritime industry re-

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting mains the most economical and environmentally benign means to move massive quantities of stuff

Information Technology around the globe. It always has been, and always will be. That’s not to say there will not be quan-

Vladimir Bibik

Emin Tule tum leaps in technology and changes that will not signi? cantly impact the market in general. Today, the best example is the increasing size of ships, which has not only impacted individual markets

Subscription profoundly (ie. consolidation in the container sector), but has had signi? cant ripple effects on the

Kathleen Hickey [email protected] entire transport chain.

At the very core of much of this change you will ? nd classi? cation societies, and strictly by

Sales chance I had an unprecedented opportunity recently to interview at great length the leaders of ABS,

Lucia Annunziata [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220

ClassNK and DNV GL. Signi? cantly during my journey to Sea Japan last month I was afforded the

Terry Breese [email protected] +1 561 732 1185 chance to interview the new chairman of and President of ClassNK, Koichi Fujiwara, in his Tokyo

Frank Covella [email protected] +1 561 732 1659 of? ce. This 12-page feature starts on page 30, and while all of the conversations were separate, they

Mitch Engel [email protected] +1 561 732 0312 all had a common thread: The Role of Data and Technology and the Evolution of Class.

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] +1 561 733 2477

I must admit that we have bandied about big headlines like “Big Data” recent and often, and I

Dawn Trauthwein [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6230 remember with distinction a feature that we published on the “Evolution in Class” in sister-publi-

Jean Vertucci [email protected] +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 cation Maritime Professional, primarily because we published an image of Charles Darwin on the front cover, one of my favorite covers of all time.

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But the change happening in maritime and class today is truly transcendent, as the availability,

Scandinavia

Roland Persson [email protected] analysis and utilization of data comes with the promise of making the business of moving commer-

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Ystad, Sweden cial vessels more safe and seamless. Within class itself, technologies such as drones, HD video and t: +46 411-184 00 f: +46 411 105 31 data promises to fundamentally change the way in which the classi? cation societies conduct their

Western Europe

Uwe Riemeyer [email protected] business.

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Evolution is certainly not limited to commercial maritime, and in follow-up to our ? rst sit-down

United Kingdom

Paul Barrett [email protected] in February 2015 with Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, the

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Commandant explains how the USCG itself is in the midst of a historic transformation, both in it t: +44 1268 711560 m: +44 7778 357722 f: +44 1268 711567 procurement of physical assets and the recruitment and retention of people. No stone is left un- turned, as Adm. Zukunft – starting on page 44 – weighs in on everything from Cyber Security to the procurement of some new heavy icebreakers, and everything in between.

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