Transportation Hazards
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 27SEA-KIT USV Maxlimer returning from HT-HH caldera in Tonga. © SEA-KIT International data and further assess ecosystem recov- ery. What is known, noted Caplan-Auer- bach, is that the impact of submarine vol- canoes on humans is rare. “The HT-HH eruption was a tragedy, but it was very unusual. It let us
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25Auerbach explained that ideally, “one ? ed layers of geothermal activity,” noted changes over an area of 8,000 km2. They would have both instruments: seismom- Skett, “and the change in salinity and dis- found up to seven km3 of displaced ma- eters to detect and locate subsurface ac- solved particles for
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11assist in identifying mines and act as a neutralization device. About the Author Bottom mines pose even greater chal- David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of lenges. Unlike contact mines, bottom Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory mines utilize a range of sensors to
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8INSIGHTS SUBSEA DEFENSE Copyright RomanenkoAlexey/AdobeStock WHEN THE SHOOTING STOPS: BLACK SEA MINE CLEARANCE WILL FEATURE ADVANCED TECH, CONOPS By David Strachan, Senior Analyst, Strikepod Systems ince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, mine warfare mines have been the weapon of choice for both
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43restraint on any haste to participation included a "Transition in er systems would include an outline reform CII until a better understanding Transportation" panel session covering of standards for secure data exchange, of the impact of changing vessel speeds how to reduce shipping’s carbon foot-
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24assumes the title of MSC’s Flag Aide during the ceremony. NEEDS MILITARY MORE SEALIFT MARINERS, NEW SHIPS COMMAND Founded as the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and renamed Military Sealift Command in 1970, MSC today not only support the Navy, but we are the Department of Defense’s provider
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 23offshore wind; and the foreign ? ag Maersk supply WTIV at Seatrium Singapore, together with U.S. ? ag feeder ATBs for transportation and installation of the Empire Wind. Three newbuild SOVs and three conversions/retro? ts were award- ed, too, and 22 CTVs were also announced. The ? rst US rock installa
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Prius Prime is the green- where we concluded that methanol is a prom- est car you can buy in the United States. ising sustainable liquid fuel for transportation The Council assesses vehicle “green scores” not only by Mdevices when batteries cannot do the job. While their on-road emissions, but also upstream
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 40, built by C&C Marine and Repair in Belle 12-inch General Eisenhower, and the 8-inch General Swing. Esperanza “Hope” Andrade The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) christened its new ferry in Galveston Bay. Named for the ? rst female chair of the TxDOT and ? rst Latina Secre- tary of State, Esperanza
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21the vi- ACP writes that when Atlantic projects are built “the opti- mal wind turbine generator (WTG) height would exceed ability of the Marine Transportation System (MTS), and this restriction” and that “a condition restricting height to the USCG is closely tracking issues of competing ocean uses
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 18of ploited. The International Ship and Port Facility Security the most vulnerable areas is the security around our mari- (ISPS) Code and the Maritime Transportation Security time operations. The Biden-Harris Administration’s recent Act (MTSA) of 2002 exemplify this lag, as they were con- Executive Order to
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 15seven, but it really takes now to make sure that folks understand that tug and barge a united industry, and so I just really appreciate the great transportation is the most sustainable mode of freight work of AWO members, of coalition partners, shippers, transportation? How can we make sure that our ports
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12modalities that have been approved. We are the challenges involved as well as forthright in describing all strongly supporting the Department of Transportation’s de- the bene? ts so that folks know that the industry is out there cision to allow oral ? uid testing as a drug testing alterna- and can make
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 8on the U.S. inland waterways system, which includes a vast network of 12,000 miles of connecting waterways and 219 locks. The U.S. Department of Transportation Freight Analysis Framework freight forecasts suggest total water tonnage will increase at an annual growth of 0.7% per year through 2040. Earlier
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 6naval of? cer who writes on maritime and 7 Jeff Vogel security issues. He is a regular contributor to New is a shareholder in Cozen O’Connor’s Transportation Wave Media titles. & Trade Group. He focuses his practice on strategic and operational matters affecting the United States 4 Joe Nicastro
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42meet gled for years to recruit an operational domain to help protect safety, security, and environmental re- and retain a suf? cient the marine transportation system from quirements. A January 2022 GAO re- workforce. The U.S. Gov- threats that could be delivered through port found that the Coast Guard’s
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38, CTO, Foreship, the prospect established infrastructure for production, storage, of generating ammonia using renewable energy sources makes and transportation. the prospect of ammonia in maritime even more attractive. “If • Global Availability: Ammonia is globally produced you do E-ammonia, going
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29synergies,” said Ebeling. “But we have an independent board of US directors at ARC. Our chairman is General John Handy, a former commander of U.S. Transportation Command. We have a strong U.S. citizen leadership team also, and that’s really to make sure that we maintain U.S. control of the com- pany and
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28cost the provides DoD access to MSP partici- were transported to the region, either government tens of billions of dollars pants’ global intermodal transportation on U.S.-? ag commercial ships or US. to try to replicate that … if they could network of terminals, facilities, logistic government owned
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12waterways around the Mississippi River to levels not seen for Retaining the top spot for another year is Fire/Explosion decades, impacting global transportation of crops such as grain. with 34% of industry respondents citing it as the leading 2024 business risk for marine and shipping businesses. Although
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 11, and as long And yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, we will have entered a as there are lots of waterfront delivery points, the delivery can bene? cial transportation cycle with the ability to achieve be done in smaller moving units. Those smaller moving units massive system wide ef? ciency increases. But
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10be packed in 8 feet wide boxes did we important, but it needs to be a single ? xed width and having achieve the incredible ef? ciency of intermodal transportation. spent a fair amount of time on this issue I am pretty certain Before that, cargo transportation was inef? cient mayhem, and that 5 feet is
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 42Jeff Bellerud as chief operating of? cer. Jonathan Daniels has been named ex- ecutive director of the Maryland Depart- Cribley Returns to C-I ment of Transportation’s Maryland Port Edison Chouest Offshore af? liate C- Administration. Innovation welcomed back Lucas Cribley as its new business development
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 39seeks to accelerate its ferry electri? cation program. The WSF ferry system, the largest in the country, is be- The Washington State Department of Transportation’s ing converted to hybrid-electric power by 2040 following (WSDOT) WSF in early December issued a request for in- mandates from the Washington