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Just when you think the news cycle has

Vice President, Sales

Rob Howard settled down a bit, Coronovirus erupts largest and most in? uential of the Japanese [email protected] from mainland China and – courtesy of a ship owners, and having this interview in

Editorial Contributors seamless, interconnected transport system this edition is timely not only to discuss the

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil – starts to spread rapidly, globally. I am myriad of projects the shipowner has in the

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia about as far from an ‘alarmist, sensationalist works to reduce emissions, but also because

Production

Irina Vasilets media guy’ that you’ll ever ? nd, and even this is the edition will take with us to Tokyo [email protected] further from an infectious disease expert, and Sea Japan 2020. The interview starts on

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] but the impact on maritime, both in this page 38, and it’s worth a read to discover isolated case and in planning for the inevi- how it is using “The “K” Line Environmen-

Corporate Staff

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager table outbreak of future cases, will leave tal Vision 2050” to make technical and ? eet

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting an indelible mark on the risk management decisions today regarding the look, size and

Information Technology

Vladimir Bibik planning of our community. Massive cruise out? t of its ships as it aims to slash emis-

Web Contributor ships with thousands or passengers sitting sions 50% by 2050.

Michelle Howard; [email protected] in quarantine in various world locales is bad The path to running a ? eet of environmen-

Subscriptions

Kathleen Hickey [email protected] optics for the vibrant and growing cruise tally compliant vessels is neither straight, sector; it’s an even worse experience for the clear or inexpensive. Today there are more

Sales

Lucia Annunziata vacationers that simply wanted a little R&R questions ranging from fuel choice to out? t; [email protected] at sea and in port. On the industrial side, the decisions that can make or break you ? nan-

Terry Breese [email protected]; +1 561 732 1185 inability or reduced capacity to deliver and cially. We offer here a pair of features to add

John Cagni lift raw materials and ? nished products from perspective. Starting on page 20 is “Cutting [email protected]; +1 631-472-2715 the Chinese market, even in the short term, through the Smoke” by Georgios Plevrakis

John Constantino will have a profound impact. Stay tuned of ABS, with some insightful commentary [email protected]; +1 561-732-0312 here and especially on MarineLink.com as on the ins and outs of future fuels and their

Frank Covella [email protected]; +1 561 732 1659 the situation evolves. impact on ship design. In our “Scrub-

Mike Kozlowski

Pandemic fears aside, welcome to the bers” feature starting on page 32, Barry [email protected]; +1 561 733 2477 ‘Green Marine’ edition of Maritime Report- Parker was given the mandate to look at the

International Sales er & Engineering News. While I hesitate economic side of installing and operating

Scandinavia & Germany

Roland Persson to say that any of our editions are easy to scrubbers. From my experience if you ask

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 produce, this one ranks high on my list of 10 people you’ll get 10 different answers on

Ystad, Sweden [email protected]; +46 411-184 00 favorites for the simple reason that there is the matter of scrubbers, but when all is said

Germany a plethora of insightful, rich technical and and done the tech choices made on environ-

Brenda Homewood [email protected]; business information available. The trick is mental compliance are more dependent on +44 1622 297123 picking the right direction to proceed. another type of ‘green.’

United Kingdom

Paul Barrett

Central to this edition is our interview

Hallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden with Toyohisa Nakano, Executive Of? cer,

Health, Essex CM11 1PU UK [email protected]; +44 7778 357722 in charge of Ship Technical and Environ- mental Affairs for Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha,

Classi? ed Sales +1 212 477 6700

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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Editor & Associate Publisher

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980]

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