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The Digital Path

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Greg Trauthwein [email protected]

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Rob Howard [email protected]

Web Editor

Eric Haun [email protected] “To be a top performer, you must embrace technology,” said Søren Meyer, Chief Strat- fascinating endeavor, starting with our

Web Contributor egy Of? cer, Maersk Tankers, speaking at the Marine Money Week conference in New own archives of hard bound copies of

Michelle Howard [email protected]

York in June.

“Maritime Activity Reports” from 1939.

Editorial Contributors

Elaine Maslin - Scotland

Meyer was referring to the industry-wide digitalization evolution currently

The historical digging on this project

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil underway in the tanker shipping sector, as part of a panel discussion with Frank was neither short nor easy, and I offer

Peter Pospiech - Germany

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia

Coles, President, Transas Group, Wartsila Voyage Solutions; and Scott G. Borger- my sincere gratitude to Regina Ciardi-

Production son, Ph.D., CEO, CargoMetrics Technologies LLC. Coles, whose ? rm Transas was ello – who many of you may remember

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] acquired by Wärtsilä earlier this year for $246.5 million as the driver for its Voyage served as a managing editor with MR

Solutions business, simply says: “Forget about the future … the future is now.”

Corporate Staff in the late 90s and early 2000s, for

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

Just as we were sending this edition to press, the announcement came that Kongs-

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting her tireless efforts in interviewing a berg had struck a deal to purchase Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine, which at the

Information Technology broad spectrum of generations across

Vladimir Bibik time of the announcement was valued at about $662 million. The ? nal sale price the maritime industry, then seamlessly

Emin Yuce will be resolved at a later date, and to be clear the deal does not include Bergen delivering a 100-year synopsis for the

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Kathleen Hickey [email protected] engines or the Rolls-Royce Naval business. The sale is hardly a surprise, as earlier anniversary edition. My thanks also to this year Rolls-Royce signaled its intention to sell this business unit.

the Bouchard family, who offered our

Sales

Lucia Annunziata [email protected]

Mergers & Acquisitions are common fodder across all industries, but the recent staff exclusive access and insights to the +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220 uptick of M&A in the maritime sector should signal that the abyss is near, or just family business, entrusting us with the

Terry Breese [email protected] +1 561 732 1185 passed, and collectively the global maritime market is looking at brighter ? nancial task of putting together a keepsake his-

John Cagni [email protected] times. 631-472-2715 +1 torical piece. (Note: The BTC supple-

Frank Covella [email protected]

Speci? cally the trend toward the bigger getting even bigger continues, as size and ment was mailed with select copies of +1 561 732 1659 scale becomes more important than ever as ship owners and operators simultane- this edition. If you did not receive one,

Mitch Engel [email protected] +1 561 732 0312 ously digest a historic and prolonged down cycle, all the while facing a laundry simply drop me a note on trauthwein@

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] list of technological hurdles, from the ? nal adoption of Ballast Water Management +1 561 733 2477 marinelink.com and I’ll be happy to

Jean Vertucci [email protected]

Systems to the new global cap on sulfur coming in 2020, and in tandem with the forward a copy.) +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 persistent beat of environmental regulation controlling emissions and the march toward (eventual) decarbonization.

International Sales

Scandinavia & Germany

Central to this edition is Henrik Segercrantz’ offering, “Trending Digital,” starting

Roland Persson [email protected]

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 on page 32. Segercrantz is a long-time friend and contributor, having served the

Ystad, Sweden t: +46 411-184 00 f: +46 411 105 31 maritime industry in a professional capacity for more than four decades. Based in

Helsinki, he has direct access to many of the leaders in the push toward digitization,

United Kingdom

Paul Barrett [email protected] ie. Wärtsilä and its growing portfolio of companies, systems and products.

Hallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden

Health, Essex CM11 1PU UK t: +44 1268 711560 m: +44 7778 357722 f: +44 1268 711567 #BTC100

About this time a year ago we initiated the project to publish the “100th Anniver-

Classi? ed Sales +1 212 477 6700 sary Edition” for Bouchard Transportation Company, a 68-page magazine dedicated to the ? ve generations of BTC leadership, starting with Captain Frederick Bouchard

Gregory R. Trauthwein

Founder: in 1918. Sitting in this position for now more than a quarter of a century, I can say

John J. O’Malley 1905 - 1980

Editor & Associate Publisher

Charles P. O’Malley 1928 - 2000 without hesitation that digging into the historical past of any maritime company is a [email protected]

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