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Eric Haun [email protected] o say that the shipbuilding market has been tough Concerning shipbuilding opportunities I suggest you take

Web Contributor

Michelle Howard [email protected] of late is a bit of an understatement, as shipbuild- a look at the proposed $500 million shipyard project gaining ing globally is in the midst of a historic slump. A steam in Trinidad and Tobago (page 58), as this project takes

Editorial

Joseph Fonseca - India number of key market and economic drivers – from real world conditions – in this case the widening of the Panama

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Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil the precipitous plunge in the price of energy to the cumulative Canal and the export of LNG from the U.S. – and leverages

Peter Pospiech - Germany

William Stoichevski - Norway slowdown in global trade, not to mention more than a fair share them for a country’s industrial growth, economic gain and of geo-political factors – have collectively dragged the ship- stability.

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Irina Vasilets [email protected] building business to a crawl. That, of course, is the theoretical Earlier this year, our U.K.-based contributor Tom Mulligan

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] ‘glass half empty’ view. attended a DNV GL event in London which served as the basis

Corporate Staff

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

I prefer to see the ‘glass half full.’ for his article, “How the shipping industry is going to change

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting

In shipbuilding as in life, balance is key. Many of the indus- over the next 10 years” starting on page 68. A heavy dose of

Information Technology

Vladimir Bibik try veterans that I regularly lean on for insight and analysis the aforementioned communication technology is the basis for

Emin Tule readily admit that this market, particularly in the offshore much of the change to come. sector, is one of the toughest that they have ever seen. (As a Looking at the heavy machinery side of the business, our Fin-

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Kathleen Hickey [email protected] point of reference, most of my ‘regulars’ have between 30 and land-based contributor Henrik Segercrantz had the opportunity 50 years of experience). On the shipbuilding side, we certainly to spend three days with some of the most prominent maritime haven’t reached the depths of the late 1970s and early 1980s propulsion in? uencers in the world, courtesy of his attendance

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Lucia Annunziata [email protected] when new ships were delivered and promptly driven to the ship and reporting from the CIMAC 2016 conference in Helsinki. +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220

Terry Breese [email protected] breaking yards. Today the market is in perpetual change, as it From Rolls-Royce to ABB to MAN to Caterpillar and many +1 561 732 1185 always has been, as it always will be. Trade routes are chang- more, Segercrantz delivers exclusive insights from some of the

John Cagni [email protected] +1 631-472-2715 ing, particularly on the energy side, as an energy independent brightest minds in marine power.

Frank Covella [email protected]

United States steams toward becoming a net energy exporter. Finally, I am happy to intoduce a new section to the maga- +1 561 732 1659

Mitch Engel [email protected]

Trade routes are changing as ships … particularly the contain- zine, “Voices,” starting on page 28. This special interview +1 561 732 0312 ership ? eet … keep getting larger, and consolidation of the section will become a monthly staple and represent our best

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] +1 561 733 2477 long oceangoing routes consolidate before our eyes. Communi- efforts to deliver a diversity of insight and opinion from all

Jean Vertucci [email protected] cation and connectivity technology – call it “Big Data,” call it levels and geographic region. Case in point: it starts with a +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 “The Cloud,” call it the “Internet of Things” or call it whatever pro? le of Imad Shanta, a refugee from Syria who is now a the next marketing-driven ? avor-of-the-month name will be trainee at Hapag-Lloyd, and includes market perspective from

International Sales

Scandinavia – is arguably the biggest driver for change, as it collectively Johan Carlsson, Volvo Penta’s CTO; George Contos, the

Roland Persson [email protected]

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 has the potential to most profoundly impact the ef? ciency and second generation CEO of World Wide Metric; Nick Brown,

Ystad, Sweden t: +46 411-184 00 f: +46 411 105 31 pro? tability of a shipping company’s operations. the Marine and Offshore Director at Lloyd’s Register; and a

Western Europe

This edition, our traditional “SMM” edition headed to Ham- special tribute to “Mr. Diesel,” the ubiquitous Ole Grøne, who

Uwe Riemeyer [email protected] t: +49 202 27169 0 f: +49 202 27169 20 burg in early September to the biggest and best shipbuilding recently celebrated his 40th year with MAN D&T.

United Kingdom and ship machinery exhibition on the planet, is literally packed I look forward, as always, to your comments on the copy

Paul Barrett [email protected]

Hallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden with a number of signi? cant articles and sections. within, as well as your suggestion for future coverage.

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