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- Aker Rhymes with “Soccer” Maritime Logistics Professional, Q4 2013 #8
In an extraordinary end to an unusually buoyant year for U.S. shipyards, a flurry of new blue water, commercial orders flooded into Tier I shipbuilders in the fourth quarter of 2013. As the year comes to a close, the biggest problem facing U.S. builders was solving the quandary of how to find, train and ultimately retain qualified shipfitters to toil on the vessels sitting on those fat backorder books. While these are nominally ‘good’ problems to have, they are problems nonetheless. Industry is, nevertheless, finding imaginative ways to adapt existing human resources models as a way to cope. Within the pages of this edition, you’ll find out how and why.
Small and large, brown water or blue water, East Coast, West Coast and Gulf Coast, everyone is busy. And, while the newbuild and replacement work going on in the OSV and inland sectors was perhaps easy enough to predict in a rebounding economy, the blue water commercial revival was not. U.S. yards are now accomplishing the seemingly unthinkable: flourishing in an environment that does not necessarily include a steady diet of government, Coast Guard and/or Navy hulls.
Leading the charge to redefine American shipbuilding is Aker Philadelphia Shipyard and its youthful CEO, Kristian Rokke. Riding an enviable backlog of pure commercial, deep draft hulls that stretches all the way to 2018, Rokke and his management team are not resting on their laurels. Nor have they forgotten from where they came: the nadir of 2011, when their total workforce shrank to just 300 employees. The completely modernized shipbuilder – already negotiating for more options with existing customers – has succeeded in this location where others could not. Utilizing innovative partnerships, public/private financing and profit sharing deals, Aker gladly shares risk with closely aligned customers. Arguably the model for the market that it serves, the story of Aker’s remarkable resurgence begins on page 32.
Perhaps more interesting than the shipbuilding revival itself has been the seed from which the entire upswing has emanated. The so-called ‘shale boom’ and the supercharged energy production of the lower 48 states has changed not only global shipping patterns, but also redefined demand for U.S. tonnage in any number of vessel categories. Within these pages, Barry Parker’s simultaneous look at energy and shipping explains how the equation of the energy transportation business and the countless variables that form the sum of its whole, are changing.
Finally, I can’t look at success and the maritime markets without also noting that this edition marks our third full year of publishing Maritime Professional magazine. Our fully audited subscription list, coupled with the Web site of the same name, combines with our in-depth coverage to create industry’s best business journal. As we tackle the most interesting and compelling aspects of today’s maritime markets, I’m also mindful that we need to raise the bar even further. That we have the opportunity to do that is in large part due to the support and input of readers – like you. Join us in 2014 for more of the same.
(As published in the 4Q edition of Maritime Professional - www.maritimeprofessional.com)
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- YoungShip’s Birgit Liodden Maritime Logistics Professional, Q2 2013 #50
stakeholders to take a fresh look at how to recruit the industry’s future leaders. It takes energy to keep up with Oslo-based Birgit Liodden. Maritime Professional magazine nevertheless caught up with her long enough at the annual Connecticut Maritime Association’s 2013 Shipping Conference to gain some insights
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- INSIGHTS Focus: Robert Kunkel Talks Power and Propulsion Marine News, Jul 2014 #12
Vice President of the Connecticut Maritime Association, a contributing writer for many maritime and technical trades publications, including Maritime Professional Magazine and MarineNews. He continues as the Technical Advisor for several Private Equity firms, financial institutions and Coastal Connect, developing
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- Marine News Insights: Engine Room Challenges Marine News, Jul 2015 #12
of Transportation from 2003 until 2008. A past Vice President of the Connecticut Maritime Association, he is a contributing writer for Maritime Professional Magazine and of course, MarineNews. A graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Kunkel sailed as a licensed engineer and eventually continued
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11II-era unexploded mines and artillery shells. Post-con? ict mine clearance in the Black Sea will be critical to the safety and security of regional maritime opera- tions. But this will be neither quick nor easy given the volume of mine-like ob- jects scattered across the bottom of the Black Sea, and
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6Dalhousie University. Laursen Wendy Laursen has 20+ years of experience as a journalist. In that time, she has written news and features for a range of maritime, engineering and science publications. She has completed a Master of Science research degree in marine ecology as well as diplomas in journalism
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4approach in terms of the Contributing Writers Kevin Hardy number of team members sent to speci? c events.. Celia Konowe We have media serving the global maritime, subsea, offshore energy, ports and logistics Edward Lundquist David Strachan markets, which in this context means that we attend a lot of exhibitions
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43is no going fuel cell power will all provide critical account of the ‘graceful deterioration’ of back: there has to be both a systematic pathways to maritime decarbonization, electronic systems. approach to understanding digital sys- Lehtovaara stresses. “But there is not The ‘ship as system’ approach
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word Seeing the Ship as a System Shipping must engage with the decarbonization realities that lie ahead by changing the way it crafts maritime legislation to re? ect its place in the interconnected, interdependent world economy, said Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports. ABB Marine & Ports
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40AWARENESS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SYSTEM BATTLES COGNITIVE FATIGUE IN WATCHKEEPERS All images courtesy Groke Technologies Today’s evolving maritime security risks pose all-too-familiar threats to international shipping, and as just one of the many causes of fatigue, they add to the cognitive
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., and Bricks: 2500 pcs. enterprise owned by the Danish state, MOL Ship Management Co., Ltd. Scale: 1:25 takes his love of maritime and LEGOs The “Wall Climbing Robot” can move to high Length: 61.5 cm to new heights, creating a LEGO model With: 22.5 cm places that were previously
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38and the installation plan, aligning with its comprehensive "Guidelines for Shipboard CO2 Capture and Storage Systems." Image courtesy Crowley 38 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (34-44).indd 38 4/5/2024 11:08:17 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37simulators. “This is fundamental for a saf- for safety onboard the next generation of also ensures future of? cers are comfort- er, smarter and greener maritime future.” vessels, it is clear that tomorrow’s sea- able working with cloud-based tools, as farer is going to have to be more technol- these will
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36in previous years." tool for engineering studies." Image courtesy ABS – Terje Heierstad, VP Business – Vassilios Kroustallis, VP, Global Development, Maritime Business Development, ABS Simulation, Kongsberg Digital Clou u u ud d d d d d d s si im mu ul lati io on n n n n t t training g Image courtesy
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35issues that hensive experience. Wärtsilä will supply its latest technology need to be addressed. One of the most important is the familiar- for a new maritime training center in Finland that will have ization of the crew with new and emerging fuels and technol- two engine room simulators along with two
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34has integrated NORBIT’s oil spill detection system with its K-Pos DP system for simulation-based training of offshore professionals at Equinor. 34 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (34-44).indd 34 4/5/2024 8:43:52 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32has a 400t main crane featur- can be stacked in multiple layers for delivery to the marshal- ing NOV’s knuckle boom design which features integrated 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (18-33).indd 32 4/5/2024 8:29:20 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30WTIVs. The end may be in sight, but the race for bigger cranes is still having an impact on offshore wind project ef? ciency. By Wendy Laursen 30 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (18-33).indd 30 4/5/2024 8:27:59 A
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28the end-to-end logistics the force will require in a future major con? ict. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Bellino 28 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2024 MR #4 (18-33).indd 28 4/5/2024 8:27:05 A