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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs Zero-Emission Mooring Service of a Tanker Consulmar achieved a milestone by executing what it calls ing boat Castalia, which operates on full electric propulsion. the world's ? rst zero-emissions mooring service for a tanker. Equipped with two 150 kW
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 23the rule new projects might be set within historical vessel routes, con? icting with existing maritime uses and users. The USCG’s fairway proposal is based on BOEM’s exist- ing WEA projections (contained in the December Notice). The 18 proposed fairways, traf? c separation schemes and precautionary
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 16OpEd Shipbuilding U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding and Repair Industry Ensures American Strength at Sea By Matthew Paxton, President, Shipbuilders Council of America As Senator Roger Wicker force, the U.S. is falling behind. China, Korea and Japan of Mississippi once said, “Growth in commercial ship-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 6Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contributors 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 1 Tom Ewing 5 Barry Parker is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- of bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tac- ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. tical support, including
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 2Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contents Features 20 Navigation and Wind Farms 20 Competing ocean uses are raising existential questions. As the U.S. offshore industry continues to ramp up, many topics still need to be resolved By Tom Ewing 26 2024 U.S. Shipbuilding Report If
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22R&D MATT HART Matt Hart, Manager & Platform Leader, Marine & Stationary Power Systems, Wabtec, offers insights on how the megatrends of decarbonization, energy transition and autonomy all inspire Image courtesy Wabtec and impact the marine power solutions from Wabtec. By Greg Trauthwein Matt, to start
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Maritime Risk Top Marine Business Risks in 2024 By Rich Soja, North American Head Marine, Allianz Commercial yber incidents such as ransomware attacks, data linked to several large ? re incidents at sea in recent years. breaches, and IT disruptions are the biggest worry Regularly assessing and updating
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10Back to the Drawing Board Let’s Set Some Standards for Micro Cargo By Rik van Hemmen s zero carbon cargo efforts are progressing, it is becoming more apparent that the lowest hanging fruit is in the last few miles. This is where a large amount of carbon is expended in delivering small A parcels to
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 42People & Companies Rella Hired as Wiltshire Leading Port Everglades St. Johns President Glenn A. Wiltshire has taken over as Joe Rella has been appointed as presi- acting director of Broward County’s Port Rella Barton dent of St. Johns Ship Building. Everglades Department. Barton Named Vineyard CEO New
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 35academies and elsewhere. In addition to building the simulators, Virtual Marine owns and operate a series of training centers, including three in the Americas: Newfoundland, Broussard, La. and Robert, La. Harnessing the power of technology Over the years, Virtual Marine has witnessed signi? cant advancements
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 23Passenger Vessel Safety occur on a sightseeing vessel or an Ohio River dinner cruise? This contrast between speci? c – sometimes very speci? c – and general comes to mind when considering the numerous safety advisories pertaining to recent amphibious DUKW boat tragedies or the 2019 Conception dive boat
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35JIM MCNEILL: LEADING EARTH’S CITIZEN WARRIORS ACROSS THE SEA By Celia Konowe n the face of intensifying climate change and McNeill, former scientist and internationally renowned associated environmental unknowns, one world British explorer, has more than 36 years of experience travel- explorer has
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 26SUBSEA VEHICLES DEFENSE Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Test Vehicle. The Navy’s top of? cer wants more players on the ? eld Unmanned Underwater Systems = Force Multiplier Source: Boeing By Edward Lundquist peaking at the Surface Navy Association’s an- (i.e., a mix of ships that avoids ‘putting too
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21COATINGS Figure 6. The M/V Mark W. Barker sports exterior topcoats in The Interlake Steamship Company’s distinctive red (hull) and brown (freeboard). coat with a DFT of 20 to 25 mils. Aluminum oxide was added for at least a decade before dry docking – nearly double the for slip resistance and texture
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 19COATINGS Figure 1. The M/V Mark W. Barker is speci? cally designed to navigate the occasionally narrow rivers and con? ned ports scattered across the Great Lakes region. All images courtesy of The Interlake Steamship Company Figure 2. Distinguished by its Figure 3. The Interlake Steamship square-shaped
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18TECH FEATURE A New Era for Great Lakes Freighters with Modern Marine Epoxies By Justin Peare, Marine Coatings Representative, Great Lakes Region & Matt Heffernan, Commercial Marine Business Manager, North America, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine he Motor Vessel Mark W. Barker – the ? rst U.S.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14The Path to Zero work to make OceanWings suitable for lyzed the vessel’s behavior in relation to its maiden voyage – marking it as the commercial vessels was actually a scale the use of its four OceanWings. ? rst modern wind assisted modern ship down of the original design. The wing- Their goals went
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13, Scaling Down for Commercial Ops The Inception of OceanWings automatically switching to ? ag mode to While technology or ideas coming The original Americas Cup rigid two- ensure minimal impact on the vessel and from the yachting world to ships would element mainsail was pushed by the enable safe operations
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12The Path to Zero © Jifmar Group Library Americas Cup Innovation & a Carbon-Free Shipping Future By Giorgio PROVINCIALI, CTO of AYRO and Former America’s Cup Performance Predictions Leader he Golden Gate Yacht Club sign, all of which were changed by the success in bringing the Americas Cup (GGYC)
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Authors & Contributors MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M ISSN-0025-3448 USPS-016-750 No. 1 Vol. 86 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Goldberg Haun (ISSN # 0025-3448) is published monthly Galdorisi except for March, July, and October by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 2NO.1 / VOL. 86 / JANUARY 2024 22 Roy Campe shows Maritime Reporter around the CMB.TECH workshop in Antwerp. Photo: Greg Trauthwein | Photo on the Cover: courtesy CMB.TECH 8 Big Ships and a Fuel Cell Future Departments With fuel cells having the potential to play a big role in decarbonizing the mari- 4
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 43Jonas Wüst, now CEO at Tethys Robotics, set out to build an autonomous underwater drone following a student research project at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), a public university in Switzerland. Professional divers and the Tethys ROV Underwater drone from Tethys