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CEO John C. O’Malley he news cycle on nearly [email protected] every media – consumer and

President & COO

Publisher & Editor business, regardless of focus

Greg Trauthwein

Photo Justin Zurre [email protected]

Tor industry – is dominated in Europe – the world’s most mature market by the speed of change being doled

Offshore Energy Editor – and Asia. You can read Alisa’s assessment

Amir Garanovic out by the Trump administration, changes [email protected] starting on page 28.

which promise to have direct, sometimes

Production Manager

And then there’s Bob Kunkel.

dramatic material impact on every audience

Irina Vasilets [email protected]

Anyone who knows Bob Kunkel, a regular we serve, from maritime to offshore energy

Production & Graphic Design contributor to our pages, knows that when to subsea. Regardless on which side of the

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] you ask him a question, you will receive a di- aisle you sit, the dramatic swings in priorities

Corporate Staff rect, no-nonsense answer. Case in point is the as U.S. administrations change has become a

Manager, Marketing

Mark O’Malley recent OpEd he wrote for sister- central focus of board rooms large momalley@marinelink and small as businesses navigate

Read Bob Kunkel’s publication Marine News’ April

Accounting

Esther Rothenberger 2025 edition, an opinion that the myriad changes and assess the

OpEd Here [email protected] +1.212.477.6700 ext 6810 also ran directly on MarineLink.

potential impact for the coming

OPINION: Hold

Manager, Information Technology Services four years.

the Bricks, Start the com as it was too timely to hold:

Vladimir Bibik

OPINION: Hold the Bricks,

Most reading assume, for

Discussion on the

Circulation

Kathleen Hickey | [email protected] example, that the offshore wind

Future of Domestic Start the Discussion on the Fu- +1.212.477.6700 ext 6320 ture of Domestic Shipbuilding. business in the United States has

Shipbuilding

Sales

You can visit MarineLink.com been left for dead; but has it? Phil

Vice President, Sales

Terry Breese and simply search “Bricks” to

Lewis, Director of Research, [email protected] | +1.561.732.1185 read it immediately, you can scan

Intelatus, wrote a piece for the

Lucia Annunziata [email protected] the QR code to the left, or you

March/April edition of sister- +1.212.477.6700 ext 6240 can check out the April edition of publication Offshore Engineer

John Cagni [email protected] | +1.631.472.2715

Marine News. Regardless, Kunkel that gives an insightful assess-

Frank Covella puts into perspective the most ment of where we’re at, but also [email protected] | +1.561.732.1659 recent moves by the Administra- where in the U.S. wind market

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] | +1.561.733.2477 tion – moves that have, for the there are still glimmers of opportunity [visit

Gary Lewis ? rst time in my 30+ years in this seat put

OEDigital.com for the latest edition]. In this [email protected] | +1.516.441.7258 maritime and shipbuilding directly in the edition of Maritime Reporter, Alisa Reiner

International Sales political spotlight and discussion – and how

Scandinavia & Germany takes an alternate view, examining in depth

Roland Persson, Orn Marketing AB, Box 184, these political initiatives and the Jones Act

S-271 24, Ystad, Sweden the Asian market for offshore wind. While [email protected]; +46 411 184 00 are on a collision course when it comes to most operating in and around the U.S. renew- shipbuilding. Give the OpEd a read; just put able market are lining up to pay last respects,

Founder

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980] down the bricks ? rst.

the world outside of our borders are popping

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000]

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019] champagne as offshore wind grows at speed

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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