People & Companies New IMO W&O Supply W&O Supply has appointment Mi- Secretary-General Elected chael Hume as president. The International Maritime Organiza- tion’s Council (IMO) elected Arsenio An- tonio Dominguez Velasco from Panama as Lefton Joins RWE Velasco McDonald its secretary-general. He will
MN Environmental Marine Inc. Iridium Environmental Marine Inc. & Safety System). Iridium is the only ty broadband service, Iridium Certus. E NVIRONMENTAL mobile voice and data satellite com- Iridium has connected all manner of munications network that spans the mariners from solo adventurers, mer- M
On the Book Shelf 2022 SHIPPING & PORT ANNUAL Who Developed Containerization? “An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” – Charles Kettering By Angus Kress Gillespie ust for fun, try asking a friend a few questions. Who a metal platform of the tanker, above ve developed
Marine News June 2022 • Volume 33 Number 6 Contributors 1 2 345 1 Jeffrey Bowles ing and naval architecture experience. His background is the Director of DLBA Naval Architects (formerly covers naval, commercial and recreational craft. Donald L. Blount & Associates, and now a part of Gibbs & Cox
Insights Thruster Technology UV Tail Shape and Vehicle- Propulsor Performance Successful underwater vehicle (UV) performance is all about a properly functioning system. The components of a UV’s Vehicle-Propulsor-Drive system are not individual performers. They must be in harmony. By Donald MacPherson
Authors & Contributors MacPherson Maslin Weinstein services. A graduate of Webb Institute, MacPherson Weinstein Don is a Fellow of the Society of Naval Donald MacPherson is Technical Steve Weinstein is the senior vice Architects and Marine Engineers, and Director of HydroComp, Inc., a research president
September 2020 Volume 63 • Number 7 Contents On the Cover (Retired Navy Rear Admiral and Deputy NOAA administrator Tim Gallaudet meets with scientists at NOAA’s National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center in 2018 in Boulder, Colorado. Credit: NOAA) 12 Funnel Vision Christine Spiten left
by Jan Wilhelmsson, an experienced propulsion systems and thrusters for TSGI Promotes Sebastian, Brann The Shearer Group, Inc. (TSGI) pro- shipping executive and Nautilus Labs’ commercial marine applications and moted Joshua S. Sebastian, P.E. to Vice new Chief Commercial Of? cer (CCO). superyachts.
People & Companies John Gallagher, who had served as Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen Resigns Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen has decided to President since 2019. step down from his role as CEO of Wilhelmsen takes a stake in Ahrenkiel chemical tanker operator Stolt-Nielsen Wilhelmsen Ship Management ac- Ltd. He will
OFFSHORE WIND FLOATING WIND Photos courtesy Stiesdal Ports at Leith and Peterhead have announced major redevelop- portunities in ? oating offshore wind, from design through to ments to accommodate ? oating offshore wind projects, with manufacturing and O&M. Peterhead also signing an agreement with
OFFSHORE WIND FLOATING WIND ver the past 12 months, the ? oating offshore wind sec- ture, renewables, at Aker Solutions, told the conference that tor appears to have had a major dose of adrenaline. there will need to be thought put into ports, potentially pick- While the largest development, to date
Who’s News? Latest People & Company News NOAA NOAA Craig McLean, NOAA, to Retire Nancy Hann, NOAA Director of NOAA Research to Retire Hann to lead NOAA OMAO, Corps istrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Re- Craig N. McLean, assistant administra- search (NOAA Research) for nearly sev- The U.S. Senate con?
SHIPPING & PORTS CONTAINERSHIPPING CHALLENGES Supply chain issues tied to liner shipping have been front page news throughout 2021; just about every- one agrees that there’s a problem. T e underlying cause is right out of Economics 101: a surge in demand for moving containerized cargo, in the face of
Thruster Tech Underwater Propulsion Capturing performance data for Design of UVs By Donald MacPherson, Technical Director, HydroComp, Inc. onducting a sea trial is a nec- responsible for the drag load on the sys- If we cannot directly measure these essary step upon delivery of tem. The Propulsor produces
Authors & Contributors Bat Kidorf Konowe Lundquist Maslin Munoz MacPherson Thompson of its GAIAS (Galápagos Institute for the Scotland, covering technologies, from well Bat Arts and Sciences) program. intervention to subsea robotics. David Bat is President of Kimberlite International Oil? eld Research
July/August 2021 Number ume 64 ume 4 • N Num Vol ol ol lume e 64 4 • Number Vo Volume 64 • Number 5 5 5olume 64 • Numb b 564 • Number 5 On the Cover TechnipFMC’s Gemini ROV. Photo from TechnipFMC. 8 Thruster Tech Capturing performance date for unmanned vehicle design. By Donald MacPherson 22 The Coral
CRUISE SHIPPING Royal Caribbean’s TRACELET? Besides tracing, its capabilities enable better management of onboard social distancing. Source: RCCL sale of Azamara to the private equity ? rm Sycamore Partners- Line Industry Association (CLIA) had made unsuccessful ef- with RCL noting: “The transaction
CRUISE SHIPPING By Barry Parker n early 2021, the somber news from the cruise sector con- tinued. For some cruise brands, their own version of “lock- downs” will have spanned an entire year. By late January, I 2021, Carnival and others were hesitantly pegging their restarts for April/May 2021, and for
Feature Fireboats A third vessel, the Authority III, is a 90-footer, crewed A builder’s perspective by three ? re? ghters. Response time is 5 minutes. Bob Clark is Contracts Manager for MetalCraft Marine, Crews are all maritime certi? ed. All Captains have a major ? reboat manufacturer with facilities
ech file T Propeller Considerations for Inland River Pushboats By Donald MacPherson, Technical Director, and Adam Kaplan, Project Manager Propeller Tools, HydroComp Images courtesy of HydroComp Figure 1 – Pushboat hull nland river pushboats operate in a harsh environment. ence of the vessel. Transiting
Authors Contributors & Marine News November 2020 Volume 31 Number 11 Carpenter MacPherson Jennifer Carpenter is Presi- Inc., a research consultancy dent & CEO of The American specializing in applied hydrody- Waterways Operators (AWO), namic and propulsion system the national trade association
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Opinon: The Final Word COVID-19, Climate Change & Changing the World, Together Our planet is facing its greatest challenge, and it’s not coronavirus. Asbjørn Halsebakke ponders how greater political action could help the maritime industry meet its most ambitious environmental goals. hy hasn’t the climate