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Finland: Where Icebreakers are Born

Captain Pasi Järvelin on the bridge of Arctia icebreaker

Polaris. Järvelin has more than 40 years’ experience in the maritime industry, including 36 years on icebreakers, and was part of the concept team that developed the vessel. 44

Photo on the Cover: Photo credit Rick Wilson/Courtesy Crowley : Photo this page: Eric Haun 26 Making the Case for Methanol

Departments

If there’s one vessel that sparked the rapidly increasing number of methanol- 4 Authors & Contributors fueled newbuilding orders, it’s the new container feeder, Laura Maersk.

6 Editorial

By Wendy Laursen 8 By the Numbers:

OSVs 34 Graziuso Charts Crowley’s Digital Path 10 Training Tips for Ships:

Erika Graziuso, CIO, Crowley, brings a breadth and depth of non-maritime experi-

Data & Analytics ence to bear in her quest to drive Crowley’s digital transformation.

12 Back to the Drawing Board:

By Greg Trauthwein

Max Planck’s Maxim 18 Legal Beat: USCG Suspension 44 Finland: Where Icebreakers are Born & Revocation Proceedings

Finnish companies have designed about 80 percent of the world’s icebreakers, 22 Digitalization: and about 60 percent of them have been built by Finnish shipyards. Moving from Talk to Action

By Eric Haun 24 CTO in Focus:

Don Hairston, AAT 30 Ship Design: 50 Philippine’s FastCat is on a Mission “We need more wave data.”

The Pastrana family drives change in the Philippines ferry business with a ? eet of 40 Gensets: Flex Fuel Drives, modern RoPax ferries. Today it operates 20, by 2030 it aims to have a ? eet of 60.

but CapEx & OpEx Rule

By Greg Trauthwein 54 A Guide to Get Port Funding 64 In Focus: W&O 60 $1B Offshore Wind Prize for U.S. Shipyards 66 Tech Feature: Gears

The growing CTV and SOV market represents a long-term demand for at least 60 68 Tech Feature: Autonomy to more than 130 vessels.

73 Opinion: Maritime Comms

By Philip Lewis, Research Director at Intelatus Global Partners 76 Buyer’s Directory 77 Classi? eds 80 Advertisers Index 2 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • November 2023

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