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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24FEATURE INTERVIEW U.S. Navy photograph by Brian Suriani/Released Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck (right) Commander of U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) explains the tradition of the Navy ‘looping ceremony’. Lt. Robert P. Ellison assumes the title of MSC’s Flag Aide during the ceremony. NEEDS MILITARY MORE
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20INTERVIEW One-on-One with ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND As the U.S. offshore wind industry endures a predictable number of stops and starts during its adolescence, common mantras are ‘learn from the established European model’ and ‘embrace technology transfer from the offshore oil and gas
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 48ADVERTISER INDEX Page Company Website Phone# 23 Ahead Sanitation www.aheadsanitationsystems.com (337) 330-4407 29 All American Marine www.AllAmericanMarine.com (360) 647-7602 35 Bristol Harbor Group www.BristolHarborGroup.com (401) 253-4318 7 Caldwell Lifting Solutions www.caldwellinc.com (800)
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 28Feature Shipbuilding WindServe Marine you don’t have the sustained backlog.” Previous editions of Marine News’ U.S. Shipbuilding re- port have noted the increasing concern about what ABS’s Bleiberg (moderating the Marine Money panel) called “the big push for sustainable” shipping”, adding that: “What we
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 20Feature Navigation South Fork Wind COMPETING OCEAN USES RAISE EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS By Tom Ewing 20 | MN April 2024
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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: 4Crowley’s new harbor Tel: 212-477-6700 tug, eWolf, the ? rst in the U.S. capable of Contributing Writers running on power supplied entirely by on- Tom Ewing, James Kearns, Barry Parker, Jeff Vogel board batteries. I recently traveled to San PRODUCTION Production & Graphics Manager Diego to
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 2Competing 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 nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a 26 complicated business. Marine News explores this challenging
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 35, Virtual Marine enhances training effectiveness and provides valuable insights. competencies by engaging “That data is really important to our customers because them in challenging simulation they want to know, ‘How effective are our coxswains? Are they gapping anywhere where we need to focus?
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 22Feature Passenger Vessel Safety © Olivier / Adobe Stock MANY DIFFERENT VESSELS BUT ONE GOAL – PASSENGER SAFETY By Tom Ewing 22 | MN February 2024
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 6Marine News February 2024 • Volume 35 Number 2 Contributors 3 1 24 6 5 7 8 1 Tom Ewing 5 Edward Lundquist is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- is a retired naval of? cer who writes on maritime and ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. security
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 4“By the Numbers” look at U.S. Tel: 212-477-6700 offshore wind, has been tracking this in- Contributing Writers dustry very closely. He notes that setbacks Tom Ewing, James Kearns, Barry Parker, Jeff Vogel have slowed industry progress but that fed- PRODUCTION Production & Graphics Manager eral and
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 2Goal: 22 Passenger Safety The passenger vessel industry and its regulators are hard at work to achieve their shared top objective: safe operations. By Tom Ewing 28 US Offshore Wind: Down but Not Out It’s been tough going for the U.S. offshore wind 28 industry, but there’s still reason to believe the
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 31at their mid-life point rather than module that plants itself on the bot- in Charleson, S.C. Likewise USS San incur the expense of the costly mid-life tom; the power and sensing modules; Franscisco was decommissioned in refueling. San Francisco was in com- and the business end, which is a Mark 2022
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10Captain and use of her own engines and ancillary equipment, but during the re? oating the vessel passes over an abandoned anchor and tears out the bot- tom. Fuel oil spills and the vessel is ? ooding and settles down. The Owner now has to call the QI and the designated Salvage and Marine Fire? ghting
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6Authors & Contributors Frank Ewing Gullick Konowe Skucas Lundquist Paradise Strachan Ewing Konowe the changing landscape of the electric Tom Ewing is a freelance writer Celia Konowe is from Reston, Va., and industry, advising clients regarding specializing in energy and environmental has a bachelor’s
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24speed by 10%, it would reduce underwater radiated noise by 40%, but nothing’s ever that simple. By Wendy Laursen Photo credits: © Jifmar Group Library / Tom Van Oossanen and AYRO 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • December 2023 MR #12 (18-33).indd 24 12/5/2023 12:29:05 P
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 11disaster, I was asked to perform a study and de- termine how much less oil would have been spilled if the Exxon Valdez had been designed with a double bottom. I estimat- ed about 50% less oil would have been spilled. I was mercilessly grilled in depo- sition by opposing attorneys and their ex- perts ? ercely
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4van Hemmen One full year (9 printed issues) $140.00; two years $180.00 (18 printed issues) including postage and handling. Ewing MarineLMS. Lundquist Tom Ewing is a freelance writer Edward Lundquist is a retired specializing in energy and envi- Haun naval of? cer who writes on naval, ronmental issues
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 64ADVERTISER INDEX Page Company Website Phone# 39 Ahead Sanitation www.aheadsanitationsystems.com (337) 330-4407 29 All American Marine www.AllAmericanMarine.com (360) 647-7602 49 Arcosa Marine www.arcosamarine.com (615) 400-4373 3 C Job Naval Architects c-job.com/offshore Please visit our
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 58been promoted to SVP, tor of engineering. global communications and brand. SAFE Boats’ Board Adds New Members Silver Ships Names William “Dean” Lee and Tom Sánchez Lee Norton Powers COO Silver Ships promoted longtime Norton have joined SAFE Boats In- ternational’s board of directors. 58 | MN November
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 37Feature Shipyards By Tom Ewing hen asked about the top issues facing if operating policies are murky. shipbuilders, executives at the Ship- As an example, Paxton and Zorensky cited a CBP ruling builders Council of America (SCA) linked to the installation of wind tower monopiles (steel W listed a number
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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: 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