Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs “Wall Climbing Robot” Danish Pilot calls gets ClassNK Nod LEGO Model "A tribute build to a work life at sea" Image courtesy MOL, Sumitomo Heavy Industries lassNK granted its Innovation Endorse- Image courtesy Espen Andersen/DanPilot ment for
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE Northern Lights JV to have their CO2 offtaken by lique? ed Clients CO2 carriers, shipped to the onshore plant in Øygarden for an As part of the ? rst phase of the project, 80% funded by intermediate storage, and then transported by a 110 km pipe- the Norwegian government
HYDROGEN HUBS & BATTERIES ral Resources Defense Council, the in? uential advocacy group, future. Like the H2theFuture and the HV, it also received of vote in publications examining and promoting the hub concept re- of con? dence from the US DOE. The port says: “The HCH2 minded policy-makers (and
It is not an easy task and to be Esthetic Design Sensitized on it and discovered that Karstensens was building two ? sh- can be frustrating at times. ing vessels that, while not quite as sexy and EDS perfect as A few years ago, I partnered in the purchase of a 1986 Tran- 1970’s West Coast tuna seiners
cially viable, and have been required to Notably, the Senate Environment and the Inland Waterways Trust Fund to provide at a 20% cost-sharing commit- Public Works Committee approved its stretch much farther, with clear ben- ment, this amendment would add a new version of WRDA on May 4, 2022, e? ts
Feature Inland Waterways that can have a 50-year lifespan; running out of fuel is not Wash., for example, has its eye on a new low carbon fuel an option. There are parallel concerns. Rich cited a Port- standard adopted in Washington, effective in 2023. land City Council policy to limit, and eventually
200 vessels, out of a global that risk potential escalation and severely endangers the total of 44,000. By allowing China to control the waters of democratic independence of the nation. the Indo-Paci? c, America is ceding its leadership, severely Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network
Fire Safety NFPA Certi? cated Marine Chemists – A Century of Fire Protection and Life Safety By Lawrence B. Russell and Guy R. Colonna, P.E. Courtesy NFPA try representatives including the American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) asked NFPA for assistance in the development of a ? re prevention standard
BROOKLYN On March 3 Equinor and bp an- nounced an agreement to transform the South Brooklyn Marine Termi- nal into an OSW hub. This $250 million project ($57 million from New York) will prep this site for staging and assembly. An Equinor press release references “economic recovery and increasing
Feature Passenger Vessels WSF It’s a Winding Path Back to ‘Normal’ By Barry Parker he year just ended, 2021, might be described Law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) signed into as being about “trying to get back to normal”, law in mid-November, has the potential to expand the across the entire
ver since open vessels were enclosed into com- partments, ventilation has been a paramount concern, for passengers, crew and the existence of the ship itself. E In 2021, and for the next few years, HVAC experts cite three top priority issues: the COVID-19 pandemic; en- ergy ef? ciency; and ? nding safe
OPINION: SHIPPING & PORTS SOUTH AMERICA Chile’s Constitutional Future: What it means for shipping By Felipe Simian, CEO, Nachipa © Val Traveller/AdobeStock elipe Simian, a third-gen- of politics as usual and a rejection of tive outcome and respect the historic eration shipowner and ship the politicians
People & Companies ald Suhlmann will become chief ? nan- Agnevall Takes Over as cial of? cer of Damen Shipyards Group, Wärtsilä CEO Håkan Agnevall has taken over as and Mario Herrebout, current general counsel and company secretary, will ? ll president and CEO of the Finnish ma- rine equipment maker
Government Update Cosmic Rays: The Unseen Menace © Peter Jurik/Adobe Stock ost people are aware of risks inherent in our in- ers standing in the way of plans for interplanetary travel by creasingly electronic maritime industry. There crewed spacecraft. Cosmic rays also pose a threat to electron- is
COLUMN Cheer the Year! As we head toward the end of a very chaotic and COV- tenance (O&M), which has always been a fully Federal re- ID-? lled 2020 and try to re? ect on the positives, the inland sponsibility. The Administration noted this new fee would waterways had a pretty good year overall. Waterways
COLUMN Washington Watch By Jeff Vogel Working Out the Election’ s Impact on the U.S. Workboat Industry By the time this article is published, voting will have New England. Ultimately, the Administration declined to concluded in the 2020 United States presidential election. issue such a waiver, and
Insights | Federal Maritime Commission 2020 SHIPPING & PORT ANNUAL FMC: Ocean Shipping Challenges Abound By Michael A. Khouri, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission ince early Spring 2020, American consumers have the earliest phase of this Fact Finding, Commissioner Dye and received a practical
were allowed to so trade within their in ‘such citizens free from any trust or United States Code repealed the uncod- particular ‘great district’. Vessels could ? duciary obligation in favor of any per- i? ed portions of Title 46, including the be separately licensed to trade between son not a citizen
Risk Assessment By Rik van Hemmen standards. However, the last thing that anybody wanted vesting of those oysters? And why don’t we have any people to do was eat these oysters. These oysters were supposed getting sick from those oysters? (Note the similarity to the to stay in place and thrive and clean
u.S. ShIpbuILdINg 2020 yearbook “The National Shipbuilding Research Program provides a unique and valuable forum for Navy and industry to collaborate, resolve broad challenges and reduce total ownership cost for Navy ships, submarines and unmanned vessels. NSRP will remain an important component as
INSIghtS: Lake CarrIerS aSSoCIatIoN 2020 yearbook U.S. Flag Shipping on The Great Lakes By Thomas Rayburn & Eric Peace or U.S.-fag shipping on the Great Lakes, 2019 was a on the Great Lakes. Canada, a signatory to the International good year. Total cargos were 90 million net tons, up 7.5 Maritime
and adversaries from leveraging the ing are shared fundamental areas of concern, not only for the world’s oceans against us. The navies of the democratic and individual nations and the Alliance in general, but also for the peaceful countries of the world and the international mari- maritime industry
PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Kennedy Falkner Green Fenimore & Mayes ogy software development, force mea- Graham, Chapman Crowley Awards surement systems and Starrett Special Join NTSB Board Scholarships Gage Department. The National Transportation Safety Crowley Maritime Corp. presented Board is set to
PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Massport McCarthy Holvik Barrie Fitzpatrick Meyran Schmaltz Wieland Verble ter of Science degree in Environmen- (Massport) Board of Directors voted to on November 8th, 2019. Joining Rob- tal Science from UNC Chapel Hill. make Michael Meyran the Authority’s ert Allan Ltd.