the group as CFO; Francesca Merlino Port of Oakland has been promoted to chief mar- Horne Orlowski Schneider Promotes Sánchez keting of? cer; Phil Anzai has been The Port of Oakland has appoint- named SVP of strategy and business ed Emilia Sánchez as its new direc- development; and Melissa Gunder- son
Column Legal Beat Bringing the Capital Construction Fund Program Ashore By James Kearns, Special Council, Jones Walker LLP On May 5, 2023, base amount, providing a total of more than $662 million the White House announced that the Environmental Pro- for FY 2023. The NOFOs that have been issued for
Marine 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.
Eric Haun 62 Classi? ed Advertising 64 Advertisers Index On the Cover Empire State is the lead vessel in a series of ? ve new ships purpose-built by Philly Shipyard for training cadets at America’s state maritime academies. Delivered to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration
PHILIPPINE'S FASTCAT FERRIES “[Hong Kong mogul] Sir Gordon Wu came to our of? ce, and we also went to his of? ce in Hong Kong; he was interested to get into this business. He told me: ‘Mary Ann, as long as there's water, you have business. The name of the game is ef? ciency.’ So I guess the challenge
PHILIPPINE'S FASTCAT FERRIES Hitting bottom did not mean quitting, and the decision was made to change its course. “We will give our country what it needs – safe maritime transportation,” said Mary Ann. So in 2010 the company switched gears and decided to take the plunge and invest in new, modern tonnage.
Marine 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
Legal Beat Sexual Assault and Harassment Owners and Operators Must Comply with Heightened Reporting Requirements By Sid Lewis and Sara Kuebel, Jones Walker LLP n response to increased awareness of the prevalence of broadly apply to any documented commercial vessel, regardless sexual assault and sexual
Column Autonomous Vessels Recognizing and Meeting the Challenges of Autonomous Vessels By Grady S. Hurley, Jones Walker LLP created a lively debate over utilizing and regulating such Uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), automated vessels, maritime autonomous surface ships technology. Recent articles
Marine News June 2023 • Volume 34 Number 6 Contributors 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 1 Tom Ewing the Short Sea Shipping Cooperative Program under the is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy DOT’s MARAD from 2003 until 2008. He is a past VP and environmental issues. He contributes regularly of the
Marine News June 2023 • Volume 34 Number 6 Contents Features 20 The Journey to Remote Vessel Operation 20 Conducting maritime and subsea operations lean- crewed or entirely remotely, is a problem with many moving parts. We meet one company that can lay claim to world dominance in this rapidly
ships, the momalley@marinelink on decarbonization. Immediately following 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Accounting on page 26 is a feature from Phil Lewis, Emissions from Ships. Whether you think Esther Rothenberger Director of Research, Intelatus, which takes [email protected] this
, all eyes are on foating wind and the Honest Discussion About AI impact it might have on anchor handler construction. 20 Smart Shipyard Technology By Phil Lewis 40 CCUS: Northern Lights 46 In the Shipyard 30 The Power of Two 54 Tech Focus: Green Hydrogen Inside the conversion of the VLGC BW Gemini to
Marine News August 2023 • Volume 34 Number 8 Contributors 3 1 24 6 5 7 8 1 Tom Ewing Wave Media titles. is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and environmental issues. He contributes regularly 5 Jennifer McQuilken to this magazine. is a freelance writer and communications
. More than $20 billion dollars Bots, were literally thrown off the dock to show how fast they has been raised or allocated towards blue tech via private, phil- can gather data and get back using an RF link to a handheld anthropic, and governmental investors.” tablet. The Bots are used for environmental monitoring
that serve these markets with big 20 Fire Safety: questions about energy carrier and energy converter selection for their newbuilds. Mis-Declared Cargo By Phil Lewis 22 OCIMF & The Human Factor 40 Tech Feature: Batteries on Icebreakers 34 Ardmore Builds a Better Fleet 45 Classi? eds Garry Noonan, Director
ployment of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030 and 110 GW by 2050,” said Phil Lewis, director of research at Intelatus Global Partners. “Yet despite the demand drivers and local content preferences supported by the Jones Act, there has been relatively limited newbuilding activity for crew
ADVERTISER INDEX Page Company Website Phone# 29 Ahead Sanitation www.aheadsanitationsystems.com (337) 330-4407 31 All American Marine www.AllAmericanMarine.com (360) 647-7602 43 Arcosa www.arcosamarine.com (615) 400-4373 37 Blount Boats www.blountboats.com (401) 245-8300 65 Clean Gulf
Foundations ? rmly in place for and retro? ts are key to marine 30 GW by 2030 75 Products industry growth By Phil Lewis, Intelatus Global Partners By Timothy Stickney, Key Equipment Finance 77 Editorial Calendar 12 Insights: 30 Column: Offshore
MTR 100 Ocean In? nity https://oceanin? nity.com/ Image courtesy Ocean In? nity Ocean In? nity is going even bigger with its emerging Ar- Phil Hart, Survey Systems Integration Specialist, at mada Fleet. Ocean In? nity’s ? rst 78m vessel is undergoing Ocean In? nity, says it’s enabling as much acquisition
, oper says. No cause for alarm. proliferation resistance and very long refuelling cycles,” says Among the keenest green-marine advocates, there’s an Phil Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus, a market analysis admission that rare earth elements will not be enough to de- organization in the energy,
3,000 attended from nearly 800 busi- clude all vessels? A spokesperson replied that, yes, “all ves- nesses and 25 countries. Speakers included NJ Governor Phil sels which are primarily constructed or reconstructed for use Murphy, US DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm and BOEM’s in the construction, service
C-LARs LLC, a Texas based Ashtead Appoints Middleton XOCEAN completed the acquisition manufacturing company, for the supply Ashtead Technology appointed Phil of Geomara, a specialist hydrographic of control systems including Active Middleton as Survey and Robotics survey company, as part of its strategic
more than 150 years. This a pro? le of the U.S. offshore wind seg- momalley@marinelink was the ? rst time that I personally had the ment prospects by Philip Lewis, director of Accounting opportunity to go one-on-one with Pieter research, Intelatus; and the second a look Esther Rothenberger rothenberger@mari