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  • The Shipyard Weekly, published by the Shipbuilders Council of America, recently quoted a Wall Street Journal report by staff reporter Bill Paul on a "worrisome trend" implicit in Russia's expanding ocean shipping fleet which now "blankets the globe." His timely article makes these points: "Soviet shipping policy, in contrast to Western policies, considers every merchant vessel a military ship first and a commercial ship second." "The 'greatest disparity' between U.S. and Soviet 'combat capability' is in their merchant marines." "The Soviets have been on a shipbuilding binge for years, and they are still going strong." "With the Soviet emphasis on hard currency, the Russians can 'pitch their prices 25 percent below whatever (Western) commercial rate is offered.'" "Western shipowners are convinced that Moscow is influencing Western shipping policy." "A major concern to U.S.

    planners is the military implications of the big Russian commercial fleet." "The Soviets, whose state-owned shipping companies can operate at a loss for long periods, now are capable of destabilizing shipping rates at will . . ." Mr. Paul reports that the Soviet Union is supporting "proposal by the shipping committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (to) prevent most Western shipowners from flying a low-cost flag of convenience by requiring the owner to have a majority of his assets in that flag country, which few of them do." Advanced by developing countries which "want to limit developed nations' access to flags of convenience as a means of increasing their own participation in world shipping," Russia's motive, Mr.

    Paul says, is to reduce "low-cost shipping competition." Soviet merchant marine, as of January 1, 1982, numbered 2,449 vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over; U.S. commercial fleet, not including Great Lakes vessels, totaled 574. Gross tonnages were 16,542,000 and 13,516,000, respectively.

    Deadweight tonnages were about equal. In containership category, U.S. outshines U.S.S.R., but in other categories of major shipping resources (freighters, tankers, roll-on/roll-off vessels and bulk carriers), Russia holds the lead.

    Ratio of bulk carriers, in particular was 8 to 1 in numbers and 7 to 1 in gross tonnage.

  • The top ten cruise lines carried 8.3 million passengers on 3.840 North American cruises in 2003, up eight per- cent over 2002. the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd) reported recently. And a recent report in the Wall Street Journal (Tuesday, February 24). indicates that cruise pricing is on the rise

  • The break up and sinking of the tanker Prestige last month off the coast of Spain is sure to create grass root changes in the maritime market that far exceed the economical and ecological damage caused. While it is impossible to determine, exactly, what new measures may be, there is an undeniable

  • The nation's railroads will receive major profit windfalls in the next few years due to a change of accounting methods allowed them in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, according to a study conducted by the Chicago law firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook. The study was jointly published by a coalition

  • The tragic events in New York and Washington D.C. of September 11, 2001 have left an indelible mark on the world. In the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks, millions of words, both public and private, have been spoken and written in a futile attempt to offer perspective and reason. To date

  • The marine industry, which traditionally hits a lull during the summer months, has been boiling over with new projects and business prospects, mainly centered on the business of keeping U.S. shores secure from further terrorist incursion. The Coast Guard Deepwater project, which was well in the works ye

  • plentiful coal for affordable energy and that will continue to be the case whether or not the U.S. is the supplier. In an August 3, 2014 Op-Ed to the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania wrote, “The EPA’s war on coal has troubling economic implications for every American and U.S. business. As

  • Florida Times-Union to write "the maritime industry is about to provide the federal government with a $360- million interest-free loan." And, The Wall Street Journal wrote, "farmers and other off-road users of diesel fuel who are exempt from the tax are outraged by the provision because it requires

  • of direct human control. A Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS) involves both automated systems and remote control operations. In August 2016, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Ship Operations Explore Autonomous Sailing.” The article suggested that by 2030 there would be remotely

  • As the workboat industry marches toward Subchapter M, and ever closer to the International Safety Management (ISM) Code, the appointment of a Designated Person Ashore (DPA) becomes more important, the position’s job functions become more defined, and the selection of the right individual becomes more

  • to our training, we made good decisions, we didn’t give up, we valued every life on that plane—and we had a good outcome,” Sullenberger told the Wall Street Journal.    For the maritime industry, crew training and hiring procedures have been garnering more attention over the past decade. In prior times

  • McCain and Congressman Mac Thornberry – co-chairman of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees – memorialized this sentiment recently in the Wall Street Journal writing, “Continuing to slash defense invites greater danger to national security while shamefully asking the country’s military men and women

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