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The E-Pusher series fast-tracks fuel ? exibility.

Source: KOTUG

On the Cover

NDT’s new Data Barge.

Source: Nautilus Data Technologies

Features Departments 4 Authors & Contributors 20 U.S. Navy brings back the Frigate 6 Editorial Building new class of warship can be fraught with pain. USN is aiming 8 By the Numbers to change this with its new Guided Missile Frigate (FFG) program.

10 Training Tips for Ships By Edward Lundquist 14 Back to the Drawing Board 18 The Path to Zero 32 E-Pusher Advances Fuel Flexibility 24 Digitalization KOTUG’s E-Pusher series is working today, built around the premise 30 Ship Repair: Austal USA of fuel flexibility.

By Greg Trauthwein

Interviews 28 Ronald Spithout, President, Inmarsat 34 Inside the Data Barge 44 Charles Good, Chairman, Cox Nautilus Data Technologies and Elliott Bay Design Group provide an 48 Arild Risholm Saether, Navtor interesting new twist to the maritime digitalization discussion, with the 50 Tech Feature: LNG design, manufacture and delivery of an innovative 7MW data center 56 Tech Feature: Coatings housed on a refurbished 240-ft. deck barge. 56 Tech Feature: Heavy Lifting By Greg Trauthwein 62 Tech Files 66 Vessels: Nexans Aurora 40 A Seismic (Survey Vessel) Shift 68 History: Bear Hunting Despite oil prices recently edging past $80 a barrel, scars from two 68 The Final Word: Susan Ludwig recent oil industry downturns in five years have forced offshore 75 Buyer’s Directory seismic surveyors to look at ways to diversify.

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