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Tom Mulligan - UK

As this is our ‘Ferry Annual,’ the original intent was to ‘rank and report’ on the Top 10

While we often cover ‘digitaliza-

Lisa Overing - Florida

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil

While nothing is impossible, the self-imposed task at hand tion’ trends and focus on technology ferry companies globally.

Peter Pospiech - Germany

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia proved to be improbable, as simply put the industry is too fragmented with no com- and technique that is designed to

Production mon measuring stick. make many facets of the ship design,

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Of course there are some common denominators such as passenger and freight construction and operation more

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] volumes, but is the biggest necessarily the best? There are fnancial considerations of efcient, I am very pleased to ofer

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Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager course, and in a perfect world each company would be publicly listed so that compari- a two feature section on Artifcial

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting son and contrast would be readily available. The are not. Intelligence.

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Vladimir Bibik

With that, the mandate was posed to one of our regular contributors, Barry Parker, In the frst piece, “The Amazing who if you know him well is quite comfortable digging for numerical data across World of Mixed Reality” starting on

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Kathleen Hickey [email protected] various platforms. After much consideration and discussion, we decided that a hybrid page 36, our science and technology approach – pun intended – was the best course forward, and in this edition, starting on writer Tom Mulligan goes deep with

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Jean Vertucci [email protected]

Tomas Tillberg is one of those rare people that can engage you in conversation and looks at Elliot Bay Design Group’s +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 makes hours seem like minutes, and, as a side, he has a knack for some outstanding use of virtual reality as a valuable tool passenger vessel design, too! Since I have covered his business and projects innumer- in vessel design, giving owner the

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