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Publisher John C. O’Malley @ShipNews [email protected]

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Greg Trauthwein [email protected]

He invited me down to Miami to meet with

Part of the reason I love my job is the

Vice President, Sales

Rob Howard cavalcade of events to start 2020, and him, Patrick Dahlgren and Anders Aasen [email protected] the ability to have money, markets and the – the collective heads of RCCL’s Global

Editorial Contributors world change on a dime. No, I don’t like Maritime Organization – for some exclusive

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil nor enjoy the pain and suffering brought by insights on how the cruise line is making

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia global disease. But seriously, I’d like a show tech development decisions based on data.

Production

Irina Vasilets of hands of those that could have predicted It was a worthy trip indeed, and starting [email protected] the breadth, depth and length of the current on page 40 you can read about RCCL’s

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected]

COVID-19 virus and its impact on every- digital journey, including some amazing thing. projects which have resulted in signi? cant

Corporate Staff

Mark O’Malley, Marketing Manager

While the world is awash in analysis, I energy savings.

Esther Rothenberger, Accounting think it will be some time until we get an The other big feature in this edition was

Information Technology

Vladimir Bibik accurate picture – if even possible – of the a little closer to home … in fact a 25-min-

Web Contributor cumulative economic carnage that is spread- ute ferry ride across New York Harbor on

Michelle Howard; [email protected] ing globally. By all accounts, it will be short the Staten Island Ferries to meet with Jim

Subscriptions

Kathleen Hickey [email protected] lived and ? scal ships will right themselves DeSimone, who has led the iconic ferry … the big question is ‘when’? service for more than 16 years. This is a

Sales

Lucia Annunziata

It was less than two months ago that we follow-on feature to our shorter bit last [email protected] were talking about the global cruise market, month on Staten Island Ferries’ maritime

Terry Breese [email protected]; +1 561 732 1185 its historic growth in ? eet, tech and destina- training practices, and this month we focus

John Cagni tions, with projections on how fast and high on ? eet development and maintenance, [email protected]; +1 631-472-2715 it could grow. Now, you can’t open the news including a trio of “Ollis” class newbuilds

John Constantino without seeing the handful of ships and their currently under construction at Eastern [email protected]; +1 561-732-0312 passengers stranded in quarantine, quite Shipbuilding. DeSimone is well-known to

Frank Covella [email protected]; +1 561 732 1659 literally with no place to go. By recent esti- many reading these pages, and he doesn’t

Mike Kozlowski mates the big cruise lines have shed 40% of disappoint with his characteristic candor and [email protected]; +1 561 733 2477 their market value since the start of the year, insight. I also had the chance to spend some

International Sales and the industry collectively is undoubtedly time with John Waterhouse, Chief Concept

Scandinavia & Germany

Roland Persson strategizing on the next step when this cur- Engineer at Elliott Bay Design Group, who

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 rent crisis resides. shared some of the ? ner points of the new

Ystad, Sweden [email protected]; +46 411-184 00

Ironically, I was recently in Miami in the designs that are geared to keep these ferries

Germany of? ces of Royal Caribbean Cruises to meet running ef? ciently and effectively for 40

Brenda Homewood [email protected]; with a trio of ship optimization executives years or more.

+44 1622 297123 to discuss RCCL’s digitalization strategy

United Kingdom

Paul Barrett to meet emission and ef? ciency goals. I

Hallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden met Anshul Tuteja, AVP of Global Fleet

Health, Essex CM11 1PU UK [email protected]; +44 7778 357722

Optimization, in late 2019 in New York

City at a small roundtable hosted by ABB.

Classi? ed Sales +1 212 477 6700

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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Editor & Associate Publisher

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980]

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000] © Royal Caribbean Cruises [email protected]

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