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Editorial

MARITIME

REPORTER

AND he U.S. maritime industry is

ENGINEERING NEWS experiencing a renaissance

M A R I N E L I N K . C O M like I’ve not seen in my

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T +1.212.477.6700 said it before and will write it again:

CEO

I’ve heard more about ‘maritime’ John C. O’Malley and ‘shipbuilding’ from the federal [email protected] government in the ? rst six months of

Publisher & Editor

Greg Trauthwein this year than I’ve heard in the past [email protected]

Photo Justin Zurre 33 years combined … and that’s no

Offshore Energy Editor

Amir Garanovic exaggeration. understatement, as Russia’s dominance in the [email protected]

I was in Virginia a few weeks ago for the

Arctic – as outlined in great detail in Alisa

Subsea/Robotics Editor

Celia Konowe

Society of Naval Architecture and Marine

Reiner’s article in the October 2025 edition [email protected]

Engineers (SNAME) Annual Conference, – as stirred a patriotic fervor to build fast. On

Production Manager

Irina Vasilets the ? rst I’ve attended in several years. Our

Balan’s panel at SNAME, veteran ship- [email protected] company’s relationship with SNAME ex- builder Jim Carr, SVP Engineering, Seaspan

Production & Graphic Design

Nicole Ventimiglia tends back for generations, and personally I

Shipyards summed it up best in discussion [email protected] have nearly three decades attending SNAME his company’s partnership with Bollinger

Corporate Staff

Manager, Marketing events. With a travel swing that included nine

Shipyards and Rauma Marine Constructions

Mark O’Malley consecutive weeks of air travel, I was 50/50 momalley@marinelink to build U.S. icebreakers: “This is the fastest when the SNAME event came into view. Af-

Accounting

I’ve moved on a shipbuilding program in my

Esther Rothenberger ter attending the 2025 event, I can unequivo- [email protected] career.” +1.212.477.6700 ext 6810 cally say that if you missed it, you’ve missed

Starting on page 53, our friend Phil Lewis,

Manager, Information Technology Services a good one. The annual meeting – while still

Director of Research, Intelatus, does what

Vladimir Bibik modest in size – had and energy and a vi-

Phil does best: Writes an in-depth, informa-

Circulation

Kathleen Hickey | [email protected] brance that I’d not personally seen in nearly tive manifesto on the the current status and +1.212.477.6700 ext 6320 20 years. The conference rooms and exhibit future direction of a market sector, in this

Sales

Vice President, Sales hall were ? lled with students of all levels case ... icebreakers.

Terry Breese [email protected] | +1.561.732.1185 seeking cues on the direction of their future

On a ? nal note, I’m happy to share my

Lucia Annunziata career, and the conference sessions I was interview with Matt Binsfeld, CEO, Bren- [email protected] +1.212.477.6700 ext 6240 able to attend were strong. The opener was a nan, starting on page 36 and entitled “From

John Cagni panel discussion moderated by Glosten CEO ‘Yard Dog’ to the C-Suite”. I met Binsfeld [email protected] | +1.631.472.2715

Morgan Fanberg and featuring an A-list of over the summer at WODCON ‘25 in San

Frank Covella shipbuilders, engineering and academia + an [email protected] | +1.561.732.1659

Diego, subsequently spending an hour with excellent panel on Iceabreakers, the cover

Mike Kozlowski him recording for our Maritime Matters [email protected] | +1.561.733.2477 feature of this edition, moderated by Genoa

Podcast. The Brennan story is quintessential

Gary Lewis

Design COO Laurie Balan and featuring [email protected] | +1.516.441.7258 maritime: multi-generational, multi-faceted another excellent line-up with the same mix. with highs and lows galore. In the end, a

International Sales

Scandinavia & Germany

As Fanberg said in opening his panel, “The strong company steadfastly committed to its

Roland Persson, Orn Marketing AB, Box 184,

S-271 24, Ystad, Sweden

U.S. maritime industry has moved from the family roots, its employee family, its com- [email protected]; +46 411 184 00 margins to Center Stage,” though admittedly munity and its country.

aside from the big U.S. Navy shipbuild-

Founder

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980] ing primes, many companies in the mid- to

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000]

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019] small-sector are still waiting to see how all of the political ? reworks positively impact their bottom line.

To say that icebreakers are ‘hot’ is an

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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