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CEO John C. O’Malley [email protected]

Publisher & Editorial Director

Greg Trauthwein @ShipNews [email protected]

Offshore Energy Editor

Bartolomej Tomic [email protected] service the new offshore wind ? elds.

Personally, there is no story that I like to

Science & Technology Editor cover more than a good shipyard story, and In that regard, Greg Lennon, ABS’ new

Tom Mulligan [email protected] we have a great one this month with our VP of Global Offshore Wind offers his cover feature focus on Fincantieri Mari- thoughts in a recent interview with Mari-

Production Manager

Irina Vasilets nette Marine (FMM) and its preparation time Reporter TV, an interview which is [email protected] as it gears up to build the U.S. Navy’s new presented here in brief starting on page 22.

Production & Graphic Design

Nicole Ventimiglia

Constellation-class frigates. Predictably much of the hold-up centers on [email protected]

We spoke with Dario Deste, CEO, Fin- ? nance, and more speci? cally getting fund-

Corporate Staff

Manager, Marketing cantieri Marine Group (FMG) and Mark ing for some of the larger, costlier assets

Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink

Vandroff, CEO, FMM for an inside out when there is still a fair amount of uncer- look at how the company is investing, not tainty surrounding the long-term ? nancial

Accounting

Esther Rothenberger only in FMM but in its ‘system of yards’, return. Lennon contends that creativity is [email protected] 212-477-6700 ext 6810 including Bay Shipbuilding and Ace Marine needed, looping in key stakeholders in gov-

Manager, Information Technology Services in Wisconsin, as well as its new ship repair ernment and private equity, among others, to

Vladimir Bibik [email protected] facility in Florida. The story starts on page take these newbuild plans from the drawing

Circulation

Kathleen Hickey [email protected] 38. board to the shipyard.

212-477-6700 ext 6320

While ‘government shipbuilding’ is the Finally, I’m happy to present our inter-

Sales number one focus of this February 2022 edi- view with Cadeler CEO Mikkel Gleerup

Vice President, Sales

Terry Breese tion, focus number “1A” is offshore wind on this company’s ambitious plans in build- [email protected]; +1 561-732-1185 and all that it entails. ing a new ? eet of advanced WTIVs for the

Advertising Sales Managers

National Sales Manager

We have been beating the offshore wind international market. While the U.S. market

Lucia Annunziata [email protected]; drum long and loud for many years now, has been stuck in neutral regarding pulling +1 212-477-6700 ext 6240 and while progress has been hauntingly the trigger on newbuilds, Cadeler and many

John Cagni slow, it appears that real money is starting others in Europe are ordering large quanti- [email protected]; +1 631-472-2715 to ? ow. ties of new, technically advanced tonnage

Frank Covella [email protected]; +1 561-732-1659

The latest report from Philip Lewis, across the full spectrum of vessel types and

Mike Kozlowski

Director of Research at Intelatus Global sizes. Our interview with Gleerup, which [email protected]; +1 561-733-2477

Partners, ? nds that at the end of January was recorded for our Offshore Engineer

Gary Lewis [email protected]; +1 516-441-7258 2022, in the U.S. alone there were more brand, starts on page 28.

International Sales than 45 projects in development represent-

Scandinavia & Germany ing $136B in CapEx expenditure and $4.4B

Roland Persson

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 in annual OpEx opportunity. The numbers

Ystad, Sweden [email protected]; +46 411-184 00 surrounding offshore wind are starting to

Germany, Austria & Switzerland grow exponentially, but that growth has

Tony Stein [email protected] not yet translated into the bountiful number +44 1892 512777 of new ship and boat contracts for U.S.

United Kingdom, France, Italy & Spain shipyards that will be required to install and

Paul Barrett

Hallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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

Editor & Associate Publisher [email protected] Founder:

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