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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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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: 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: 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 - 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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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
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42CASE STUDY ROV DVL TECH Tethys Robotics’ underwater drone in Lake Zurich during a harbor inspection. All image courtesy Nortek Tethys Robotic’s new ROV Leverages Nortek DVL Tech new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from Swit- pulse along a minimum of three acoustic beams, each pointing zerland’s Tethys
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word Copyright William/AdobeStock Where is the IMO? Tasked to ? ght climate change, what’s up with United Nations ocean shipping agency charged with the responsibility to regulate GHGs? By T. Nelson Thompson hy can’t global ocean shipping, an industry based in an unassuming brown
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 29Blue Sky Maritime Coalition “We need a sustainable maritime fuel.” – Jennifer States, VP and chief strategy of? cer, Blue Sky Maritime Coalition tugboat for a demonstration project along the Hudson River. Amogy’s am- monia powerpack—an ammonia fed fuel cell, mountable in a container or on a
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 28Feature Power & Propulsion Seabulk Towing Seabulk’s ? rst ever electric-hybrid tugboat, Spartan, was built by Master Boat Builders and delivered in 2022. is based. Kirby’s role goes beyond vessel operating. The ing. Thus, these vessels may be candidates for electri? cation vessel was built in
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 27Feature Power & Propulsion not subject to speci? c IMO decarbonization measures such pair of Cat 3512E’s, each rated at 2,213 bhp, driving a Schot- as the Carbon Intensity Index, or CII), stressed that “due to tel SRP 430FP Z-drive unit. The same yard has two tugs un- signi? cant inherent differences in
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 14Insights model that we’re building now. For ports where you don’t that runs a ? eet of seven tugboats and a number of barges need 95 tons, that makes a lot of sense. We’re pretty bullish for salvage and other work on the river. on [the RAscal] model.” Not only do these segments help DMI ride out dips
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 13Insights business is building tugboats for customers throughout the U.S., this can sometimes mean coming up with new ways to solve challenges bound to arise in the shipbuild- ing industry. The yard is situated in what Manning described as “an odd location for building boats”, nestled between a road and
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 6Marine News November 2023 • Volume 34 Number 11 Contributors 1 24 35 7 6 8 9 1 Jennifer Carpenter 5 Edward Lundquist is president & CEO of The American Waterways Op- is a retired naval of? cer who writes on maritime and security erators, the tugboat, towboat and barge industry’s ad- issues.
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 44People & Companies Diversi? ed Marine Names Crowley Hires Fowler Crowley has appointed James Fowl- Manning President & COO er as senior vice president and general Diversi? ed Marine, Inc. has promot- ed Frank Manning to president and manager of its shipping business unit. COO. The company’s founder
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 31Montgomery Locks and Dam on upper Ohio River Michel Sauret / USACE “We look forward to the day that we have not just a groundbreaking, but a ribbon cutting when we’ll be able to achieve the full bene? ts of this system,” Stephaich said. Mary Ann Bucci, executive direc- tor at the Port of Pittsburgh
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 29Feature Inland Waterways nomic Development (NED) plan for improving the Em- Pittsburgh—were each constructed prior to 1936 and have sworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams with the oldest and smallest lock chambers on the Ohio River. new expanded lock chambers. At each of the three sites, Of
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 28Feature Inland Waterways Michel Sauret / USACE INLAND WATERWAYS: M I AKING ROGRESS P ON NFRASTRUCTURE By Eric Haun he United States’ vast network of navigable in- gable rivers and enabling the ef? cient ? ow of commerce— land rivers is vital to the nation’s economy, serv- are in desperate need of
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 27Lee was asked: as you review H2 as a possible new fuel, what indicators are you looking for that would demonstrate a H2 project’s feasibility and viability for the maritime industry? For context, Lee suggests that new fuels will require a bit of a shakeup in traditional thinking among mariners. That’s
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 6Marine News October 2023 • Volume 34 Number 10 Contributors 1 24 35 9 7 6 8 10 1 Jim Bunsey uting writer for Marine News and MarineLink.com. is the director of commercial business development at the Propane Education & Research Council. 6 Edward Lundquist is a retired naval of? cer who writes
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 2Marine News October 2023 • Volume 34 Number 10 Contents Features 22 Making Hydrogen Work: Demo Project 22 in San Francisco Port Hornblower is collaborating with government and private partners to demonstrate the feasibility and viability of using hydrogen as a marine fuel. By Tom Ewing 28 Inland