, class and regulators.” To support this, LR has implemented assurance frameworks for maritime AI systems. In 2022, it announced a collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute which provides fast and cost- CLassNK China Classi? cation Society 14 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • May 2023 MR #5 (1-17)
Bookshelf Working Boats: An Inside Look at Ten Amazing Watercraft, by Tom Crestodina Reviewed by Alan Haig-Brown, Sept. 2022 seiner, and Bristol Bay gillnetter, ? sh for salmon and Crestodina provides knowledgeable detailed drawings of the workings of each gear type. He gives similarly detailed
an ROV or AUV on features of particular inter- within the government. You can’t say numbers like that. So est. Toward the end of my time with NOAA, Dr. Alan Leon- we said: “Well, we can get the deeper water done with current ardi and I chaired what was called the National Ocean Map- technology but we really
Column Autonomous Vessels Autonomous Cargo Ships and New Collision Regulations By Alan M. Weigel, Blank Rome LLP practices, there are no international standards for the safe The possibility now exists design, operation or maintenance of autonomous vessels. for ships to navigate the globe with no one
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. But there are challenges. By Tom Ewing All American Marine Eric Haun Volvo Penta 32 4 Editor’s Note 18 Column: Autonomous Vessels 43 Products By Alan Weigel 6 Authors 44 Editorial Calendar 38 Pro? le: Ahead Sanitation 10 Insights: Systems, Inc. Jörg Franzke
numerous applications for safety and security of navigation, pro- tection of marine environment, ef? - ciency of shipping and others.” Jan Safar, PhD and Alan Grant, PhD are researching VDES with the R&D arm of the General Lighthouse Author- ities of U.K. and Ireland. In September 2021 they presented a
at Bay Ship Xavier Beale has been appointed vice Pitre Aryan-Zahlan Bay Ship & Yacht founders Bill Elliott president of human resources and trades and Alan Cameron have stepped back, (HR&T) at HII’s Newport News Ship- and Joel Welter, currently chief naval building division, effective April 1. Beale architect
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Feature Emissions © Alan Smillie / Adobe Stock Moving Forward with Emissions - Is it Tiers, Tears or Fears? By Robert Kunkel s International Maritime Organization (IMO) with alternative sources of energy and fuels. Two paths that and U.S. Environmental Protection Agen- simply require a hybrid
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Tech File A Mini-Tractor for the US Navy By Alan Haig-Brown oduteh Marine, of Tacoma, Wash., has gained ? tted with s single Schottel SRP 150 azimuthing drive. recognition on meeting the stringent conditions The drive has a 41.3-inch propeller in a nozzle. The for- of military contracts. In 2020 they
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Investment 42 Marine Lighting Spotlight By Sen. Roger Wicker 6 Authors 43 Products 37 Tech File: Mini-Tractor 10 Insights: Chris Deegan, By Alan Haig-Brown Gibbs & Cox Chief Executive 44 Editorial Calendar 38 Tech File: Solid 44 Classi? ed Advertising 16 Column: Waterways
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Feature Water Treatment There are thousands of vessels discharging in U.S. waters that are still working on a solution for BWM, including treatment.” – Alan Orthmann, PE, Marine Engineer, Glosten Glosten program implementation. She called the new MARAD shores) reported discharging ballast in U.S. waters
guide is ap- proachable and straightforward in introducing compli- cated subjects and establishing pathways to move logically from one step to the next. Alan Orthmann, PE, a marine engineer with Glosten, was the guide’s project manager. “Start with the Guide Nav- igator,” Orthmann advises. “Whether you are
as CEO Trade association the Dredging Con- of Strickler Adams to Director of Marine tractors of America hired Richard A. Bal- Logistics and hiring of Alan Dodd as Di- zano as Chief Executive Of? cer and Ex- rector of Business Development. ecutive Director. Balzano recently served DSC Dredge for three
Tech File Seaspan Cavalier Repower: Long Life, Big Hours Third repower for a hardworking tug with a long service life in its wake By Alan Haig-Brown e got 59,115 hours on those engines, with- hole in the tug’s port side and install both starboard and out ever removing a head,” says Seaspan In- port
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Sveinung Odegard 18 Column: Passenger Vessels 7 By the Numbers: COVID’s 41 Tech File: Tug Repower By Mike Corrigan Infrastructure Impacts By Alan Haig-Brown 20 Column: Passenger Vessels 10 Insights: Joe Hudspeth, 42 People By Colleen Stephens BAE Systems, Power & 43 Products Propulsion
ech file T US COAST GUARD SURF BOATS: Service Life Extension By Alan Haig-Brown ince the days of wooden hulls and human power, They replace the original 435-hp Detroit 6V92TA mains. lifeboat crews have put to sea through dangerous The new engines exceed the contracted requirements in surf to save the
new workboats to enter service in 2020. 18 22 4 Editor’s Note 10 Column 38 Tech File Wasted Words USCG’s 47 MLB By Randy O’Neill By Alan Haig-Brown 6 By the Numbers MarTID 2020 Training Report 36 Innovative Products 40 Tech File of 2020 Workboat Controls 8
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