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Editorial

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CEO John C. O’Malley hat, exactly, is a [email protected] ‘Great Ship or a Great

President & COO

Publisher & Editor

Boat’? Taking this to

Greg Trauthwein

Photo Justin Zurre [email protected]

Wthe micro and personal

Editor - MarineNews level, I’ve owned several boats in my question begs ... will Ane Mærsk be con-

Eric Haun lifetime, and when I ? rst make the purchase I sidered ‘Great’ once she is retired in 20-30 [email protected] can assure you that I think it’s a ‘great boat’. years? Only time will tell.

Offshore Energy Editor

Amir Garanovic

Much time and money is spent researching, As is the case with ships, ‘great stories’ are [email protected] shopping, inspecting, test-driving and bring- subjective to the reader, and our aim perpetu-

Production Manager

Irina Vasilets ing the boat home to our slip. In retrospect, ally is to deliver compelling content that [email protected] after I’ve sold a boat and moved on to bigger, informs, educates and entertains, across all

Production & Graphic Design

Nicole Ventimiglia better or more practical as life situation platforms, print, electronic and social chan- [email protected] dictates, my view on the boat has most likely nels. In this edition, in my humble opinion

Corporate Staff

Manager, Marketing changed. For me its re? ecting [primarily] on [and not because I wrote it], we present

Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink the amount that boat has cost me, in time and a great interview with George Whittier,

Accounting money lost for problems, big and small, that CEO, Fairbaks Morse Defense (FMD).

Esther Rothenberger [email protected] crop up along the way. When I re? ect on my 30+ year career, one +1.212.477.6700 ext 6810

Annually we present what we see as the de? ning highlight has been the ability to

Manager, Information Technology Services most signi? cant deliveries of the calendar pick the brains of leaders across business,

Vladimir Bibik year, but does the incorporation of new academia and government globally. Earlier

Circulation

Kathleen Hickey | [email protected] design and technology necessarily make a this year I took the trek to Beloit, Wiscon- +1.212.477.6700 ext 6320 vessel ‘Great.’ sin, for a visit to FMD, and I walked away

Sales

Vice President, Sales

The short answer is no. thoroughly impressed with the history, the

Terry Breese [email protected] | +1.561.732.1185

In fact I would argue that true greatness of facilities, the people. In turn, Whittier joined

Lucia Annunziata any vessel, anywhere can only be determined us recently for a Maritime Matters: The [email protected] +1.212.477.6700 ext 6240 once it has served its full operational life, as Marinelink Podcast, and in the world of

John Cagni only then can one re? ect on the attributes that what has become perpetual ‘corporate speak’ [email protected] | +1.631.472.2715 made it great: What was the pro? tability of what I found was an engaging, informative

Frank Covella [email protected] | +1.561.732.1659 that vessel over its lifetime? While technol- and passionate leader who is driving FMD

Mike Kozlowski ogy X solved one problem, what additional, to become an industrial juggernaut with a [email protected] | +1.561.733.2477 unexpected problem did it create? laser focus on the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast

Gary Lewis [email protected] | +1.516.441.7258

This is a transcendent period in maritime Guard.

history, with the con? uence of decarboniza- Read the story and/or listen to the podcast,

International Sales

Scandinavia & Germany tion, digitalization and automation reshaping and share your thoughts on this, or another

Roland Persson, Orn Marketing AB, Box 184,

S-271 24, Ystad, Sweden ship design, construction and out? t before feature focus that you think would be ‘Great’.

[email protected]; +46 411 184 00 our eyes. Ultimately it will be a generation or Founder:

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980] longer before the scales are truly tipped away

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000]

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019] from, for example, the use of traditional fos- sil fuels as the primary source of marine fuel, but the clear leaders in the sector are invest- ing mightily – the NYKs, the A.P. Moller Gregory R. Trauthwein - Mærsk’s – as embodied by our cover story Publisher & Editor and “Ship of the Year” Ane Mærsk. So the [email protected] 6 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • December 2024

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