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Photo on the Cover: Royal Caribbean Group | Photo this page: FMD 18 Robots in the Engineroom

Departments

Fairbanks Morse Defense is developing robotics in-house to address the US 4 Authors & Contributors

Navy’s need for future autonomous vessels.

6 Editorial

By Greg Trauthwein 8 Training Tips for Ships:

Emotional Intelligence 20 Meet the CTO: Juha Kytölä, Wärtsilä 10 Back to the Drawing Board:

Insights on how this Finnish icon is investing in the technologies and facilities that

The Worst Ship Ever will drive the maritime industry for the coming generation.

12 Safety: Fire? ghting

By Greg Trauthwein 14 Safety: Passenger Vessels 16 Digital Transformation 24 Underwater Radiated Noise 40 Digitalization:

Underwater Radiated Noise is the lesser-discussed emission problem, but that’s 1-on-1 with “Mr. ECDIS” starting to change. 42 Opinion:

By Wendy Laursen Where is the IMO?

48 Buyer’s Directory 45 Classi? eds 28 Great Ships of 2023 48 Advertisers Index

A collection of 10 Great Ships that de? ne shipbuilding in 2023: 28 • NSMV 1: Empire State 30 • MOL Wind Challenger 32 • GLDD Hopper Dredge Galveston Island 34 • Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas 36 • USCG Offshore Patrol Cutter Argus 37 • Shimizu’s Blue Wind 38 • Hapag-Lloyd’s Berlin Express 38 • MISC’s Seri Damai 39 • AET’s Eagle Vellore 39 • A.P. Moller - Maersk’s Laura Maersk 2 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • December 2023

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