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Offshore Energy Editor

Decarbonization, Emission Reduction, The Path need to have the vessels, the personnel, the

Bartolomej Tomic [email protected] to Zero … whatever you call it, however you logistics infrastructure to install and main- feel about it, the future of maritime is increas- tain it will be off the charts.

Production Manager ingly de? ned by mandates from authorities

Irina Vasilets

In this edition we have a pair of features [email protected] which determine the types and amounts of addressing this topic directly, the ? rst from

Production & Graphic Design emissions from commercial ships and boats.

Nicole Ventimiglia

Paul Bartlett starting on page 22 which [email protected]

Last month news from the IMO came out examines how shipyard capacity (or lack

Corporate Staff regarding the adoption of a revised strategy

Manager, Marketing thereof) could effectively pump the brakes

Mark O’Malley to reduce GHG emissions from ships, the momalley@marinelink on decarbonization. Immediately following 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG

Accounting on page 26 is a feature from Phil Lewis,

Emissions from Ships. Whether you think

Esther Rothenberger

Director of Research, Intelatus, which takes [email protected] this was a step too far or that the measure 212-477-6700 ext 6810 a look a bit further down the road in analyz- was not taken far enough is irrelevant. The

Manager, Information Technology Services ing the inevitable impact of offshore ? oat-

Vladimir Bibik [email protected] important takeaway here is that the course ing wind and its demand for new anchor

Circulation toward emission reduction is set, and the

Kathleen Hickey [email protected] handling tug construction.

212-477-6700 ext 6320 restrictions are going to only get more oner-

While I am loathe to pick favorites, I must

Sales ous and costly to ship and boat owners glob-

Vice President, Sales admit that my nod for the ‘must read’ of this

Terry Breese ally. That said, the immediate future from [email protected]; +1 561-732-1185 edition is our interview with Hydrocomp’s the operational side is business as usual, as

Lucia Annunziata

Don MacPherson (and no, not because I [email protected]; the technology and the infrastructure for the +1 212-477-6700 ext 6240 wrote it). I’ve known Don and Hydrocomp vast majority of future fuels is still a genera-

John Cagni founder Jill Aaron for most of my 30+ [email protected]; +1 631-472-2715 tion away. But taking a blind eye now as to years in this seat, and my interview with

Frank Covella how your ? eet is going to look and operate [email protected]; +1 561-732-1659

Don earlier this year on the topic of the in the future is not advised.

Mike Kozlowski business of measuring ship emissions covers

August is our traditional look inside [email protected]; +1 561-733-2477 a lot of ground, including both GHG and shipbuilding, and to that end the decarbon-

Gary Lewis radiated noise emissions. Don offers some [email protected]; +1 516-441-7258 ization discussion tendrils reach deep inside fairly candid insights on the good and bad

International Sales the ship design and construction business.

Scandinavia & Germany of the rules to monitor and measure emis-

Roland Persson

Energy transition in its cumulative form

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 sions, as well as some excellent insights on

Ystad, Sweden is happening right now, globally, with the [email protected]; +46 411-184 00 the business of designing and building clean rapid expansion of offshore wind as a power

Germany, Austria & Switzerland and quiet ships in our feature The KISS

Tony Stein source. The whole offshore wind phenom- [email protected]

Principle & Managing, Measuring Ship +44 1892 512777 ena will entail an offshore construction

Emissions, starting on page 34.

and maintenance program on a scale never Founder: before seen, not even in the offshore oil and

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980]

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000] gas sector. To put it simply, there will be a

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019] ton of ‘stuff’ going in to the water, and the

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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