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- PRMSA Appoints Lugo Executive Director Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1977 #10
Roberto Lugo D'Acosta, a wellknown figure in both Puerto Rican shipping and governmental circles, has been appointed executive director of the Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority.

PRMSA operates Navieras de Puerto Rico, whose fleet of ro/ro and container vessels provides the most comprehensive ocean cargo service in the U.S./Puerto Rico trade to San Juan from six East and Gulf Coast ports.

A 12-year steamship veteran, Mr. Lugo most recently was in charge of the Puerto Rico operations of Transamerican Trailer Transport (TTT), which operated large ro/ro vessels in the U.S./ Puerto Rico trade, 1968-74. Previously, the new PRMSA executive director served as Seatrain's vice president and general manager in Puerto Rico.

From 1951 to 1964, Mr. Lugo held policy making posts with the Island government. He was comptroller of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO), director of the Maritime Department of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority, and held a variety of positions in the Treasury Department.

Mr. Lugo is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico.
- Letters Maritime Reporter, Aug 2003 #9
source whose contribution and commitment to the marine sector is well known. His review of the non-contiguous liner trades characterized the Puerto Rico fleet as "antique," and accurate description of the self-propelled vessels serving the trade. That section, however, did not mention the tug/barges
- Ruddie E. Irizarry Named President Of PRMMI— Carr, Calderon Also Named Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1978 #30
of PRMMI. Mr. Irizarry, in turn, announced two other high-level PRMMI appointments in the U.S. PRMMI, with 17 offices in the U.S. and four in Puerto Rico, serves as the cargo booking and operational arm of Navieras de Puerto Rico, the single largest ocean cargo carrier in the U.S./ Puerto Rico
- Turnkey Logistics: The Crowley Way Maritime Logistics Professional, May/Jun 2017 #40
60 years of experience in the Puerto Rico trade corridor provides Crowley with the knowhow, means and staying power for the 60 that will surely follow. In March, the announcement that three new, ship-to-shore container cranes were scheduled for delivery to Crowley Puerto Rico Services’ Isla Grande
- PRMSA Names Irizarry Deputy Executive Director Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1977 #40
Ruddie E. Irizarry has been named deputy executive director of the Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority, it was announced in San Juan, Puerto Rico, by PRMSA's executive director Roberto Lugo D'Acosta. Mr. Irizarry becomes PRMSA's second highest official, after an 11-year career in the maritime in
- TMT Adds Two Double-Deck Barges To Florida-Puerto Rico Operations Maritime Reporter, Jan 1977 #32
addition of a fourth double- deck barge to its fleet has allowed Trailer Marine Transport Corporation to upgrade its service from Miami, Fla., to Puerto Rico by replacing smaller barges with double-deck barges, according to a recent announcement by Robert Homan, general manager of TMT, Jacksonville
- Puerto Rico's First Shipyard Launched With $9-Million Loan Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1977 #23
Puerto Rico has won U.S. Farmers Home Administration approval of a $9-million loan which paves the way for immediate construction of the Island's first shipbuilding yard, to be located at a 68-acre site on Guanica Bay. This new venture into heavy industry is expected eventually to create about 800
- Op/Ed: Facts Do Matter - A Defense of the Jones Act Marine News, Nov 2017 #38
amount of the opposition facing the Jones Act. Much of America woke up one morning to horrible pictures of the damage done by Hurricane Maria to Puerto Rico. Thereafter, they were told by CNN, “Huff Po,” and social media that the Jones Act is exacerbating these problems. As these stories were the first
- nv charts Debuts New Puerto Rico Charts Marine News, Jan 2014 #56
nv charts has released updated chart sets for Region 11.1, Puerto Rico; meticulously surveyed and now available in time for cruising during the winter months. The set includes the north coast of the Dominican Republic , and is available in a variety of formats – paper, digital, memory cards for chartplotters
- Port of San Juan: A Case Study in Port Security Innovation Maritime Reporter, Sep 2018 #12
Thirty-six hours after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the port of San Juan was back up and running, scanning the incoming relief cargo as it arrived. Now, nearly a year after the historic storm, San Juan remains one of the most secure and efficient ports in the world, scanning and adjudicating cargo
- FOURTH FOR TMT CHRISTENED Maritime Reporter, Mar 1980 #44
Rey, Trailer Marine Transport Corporation's fourth triple-deck barge, departed Jacksonville, Fla., on January 18 for its maiden voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The El Rey (shown above), the final in a series of four mammoth triple-deck barges, was built in Portland, Ore., by the Marine and Rail Equipment
- Container & RoRo Tonnage — Non-Contiguous Liner Trades Maritime Reporter, Jun 2002 #35
The container and RoRo fleets of the established carriers serving Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are aged. While none of these trades is experiencing rapid growth, the involved vessels are expensive to operate and increasingly expensive to maintain. Replacement plans are well underway by one of the

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& T-shirts” and we do without becoming a “stranded asset” is have not produced the cargo demand. not have to complete with China during Hawaii, Puerto Rico & Alaska. Need- Are there cargo requirements and the growth. less to say, and fully understanding the business models that would work? The model
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(USACE) allocated approximately $28.5 billion in construction funding across 278 water resources projects, spanning 47 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Source: United States Government Accountability Of? ce (GAO) February 2025 report entitled: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS:
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fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The DB Avalon has taken on multiple dredging projects in the Houston Ship Channel, San Juan Harbor in Puerto Rico THE FLEET When ‘innovative, emission-ef? cient maritime tonnage’ is and is now working in the Chesapeake Bay on the Baltimore the topic, dredgers
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past ? ve years.” pro? le dredging projects in the Houston Ship Channel, According to Doyle, Martin Curtin, the founder of Cur- San Juan Harbor in Puerto Rico and is now working in the tin Maritime is an “on-the-deck-plates” type of guy, un- Chesapeake Bay on the Baltimore approach channels. Cur- derstands
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to Act and associated laws “work to mission from Inside Sources. California, Alaska to Washington state, ensure TRANSCOM has the neces- Florida to Puerto Rico, and the lower 48 states to one another, we would be dangerously vulnerable. The Jones Act ensures these vital domestic trade lanes are independent
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earthquake that precipitated the one of the most de- structive tsunamis in recorded history, the 2010 Haitian earth- quake, and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. Both hos- pital ships were mobilized and staged to Los Angeles and New York City to provide medical services during the Coronavirus U
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design ele- ments found in the recently commissioned and success- ful research vessels Blue Manta and Shearwater built for All American Marine BlueTide Puerto Rico and Duke University, respectively. www.marinelink.com MN 69
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INTERVIEW RDML Tim Gallaudet, NOAA Samples Study NOAA’s Megan Cromwell retrieves as sample collecting during a dive off Puerto Rico. Photo: NOAA Samples Study Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar Alex- andra Avila recovers a crinoid sample collected using a re- motely operated vehicle during a dive in the Gulf of
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single sphere hadal lander, DOV Mary Carol, with one hand onto the ship after a test dive off San Diego in 2002. DOV Mary Carol later dove both the Puerto Rico Trench and Aleutian Trench. was to leave the 17” OD the same, but make the ID smaller, creating a thicker wall. We discussed modi? cations to
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of ex- Leadership Changes ecutive chair until his retirement. Fur- Mike Noone, president of TOTE man will retire from all executive offces Maritime Puerto Rico, has been pro- Mulherin Headley in September 2022. His current board moted to a new role as the company’s term continues until January 2024
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across eled container vessels—the Isla Bella and the Perla del Ca- the board? Digital technology help to do that and more.” ribe—that TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico utilizes to reliably “One of the biggest things is remote surveys. Of the ap- transport goods between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico. proximate 30
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that are at the cut- world’s ? rst LNG-powered containership put into ser- ting edge of contemporary knowledge and expertise. Hy- vice by TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico in 2015. Element droComp is often called upon for assistance with inland Markets supplied the renewable natural gas (RNG) used river craft and
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ferries in over 13 locations along the U.S. Paine continued. “But it will never replace anything that’s East Coast from Portland, Maine to San Juan, Puerto Rico. taken place on board the vessel. Our commitment is still And its ? eet is about to become even more modern. In to get a hand on a line, a
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to serve offshore wind farms, or if you Act waivers to make sure that they’re not being issued when want to repower your ? eet with LNG to serve the Puerto Rico not absolutely necessary. Clarifying that the constitution market or build barges to fuel LNG propelled vessels, it’s good and U.S. laws, including
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being taken up more broadly. In the container sector, where voyages follow standard routes, LNG took hold. In the U.S., Crowley and Tote’s Florida/ Puerto Rico trades are both served, with each company having a pair of gas fueled vessels, from an LNG fuel hub in Jack- sonville. CMA CGM is building nine
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Great Ships of all time USS Iowa (BB-61) Fires a full broadside of nine 16/50 and six 5/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. [Note concussion ef- fects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.] Of? cial U.S. Navy Photograph
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was considering a blanket 10-year waiver for the Correspondingly, Vice President Biden has been explicit transportation of lique? ed natural gas to Puerto Rico and in his support of the Jones Act, which has resulted in of- © chrisdorney / Adobe Stock November 2020 22 M
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to severe weather, among other fac- across the conterminous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, tors, and limited capacity at ATON major repair and refur- Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and even activities bishment facilities. The Coast Guard has developed plans in Saipan, Singapore and Japan—certainly no
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more to achieve in the coming years. “I Plant and Environment team, an entire think we’re in a new golden era of ocean test bed off the coast of Puerto Rico was exploration because this technology will destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Despite allow us to scale out a lot more. The other setbacks, including
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off (ConRo) ship El Coquí is one of two LNG-powered Commitment Class vessels providing shipping and logistics services between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico. Crowley 17 www.marinelink.com MN
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along with logistical support from the US Navy successfully tested their SubSeaSail G6 platform at multiple coastal sites off the Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Remote sensing applications for monitoring underwater unexploded ordnance were demonstrated by mounting a passive flter assembly to the G6
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degree from Fort Lewis College. and teamed with Electric Boat, de- of human resources for TOTE Mari- liver the world’s most technically ad- time Puerto Rico. She joined TOTE in U.S. DOT Secretary Chao vanced submarines,” said Fred Harris, 2008 as manager of learning and devel- among Those Honored
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dredging projects in the United States, such as in the Houston Ship Chan- nel, Baltimore, Savannah, Charleston, Port Canaveral, Boston, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The U.S. dredging industry has a long history of adapt- ing and building a ? eet tailored to meet the demands of the market in accordance with
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year, Crowley Maritime’s new Con/Ro El Coquí a 2,200 cubic meter LNG capacity, is suffcient to bunker two delivered its frst cargo from Florida to Puerto Rico. El Coquí, Marlin Class container ships; the Isla Bella and Perla del Caribe, a sub-Panamax container ship and ro-ro built by VT Halter, is operating