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- Cost Of Naval Operations In Persian Gulf Region Continues To Escalate Maritime Reporter, Dec 1990 #32
Supplemental Funding Package Likely The projected cost for U.S. naval operations related to Operation Desert Shield through September 30 has more than doubled—from $230-million to $490-million —according to figures released by the Pentagon recently. Pentagon officials attributed the increase to various factors, including a $10-per-barrel increase in the price of oil, increased operating tempo for ship steaming and aircraft flight operations and additional personnel costs required by the call-up of Reserve units. The skyrocketing costs of U.S.
operations in the Persian Gulf region has increased the likelihood t h a t Congress will be asked to approve a supplemental appropriations bill soon after it reconvenes.
The combination of increased ship steaming and aircraft flight operations will add $175- million to the overall bill for Desert Shield, the Pentagon says. Deployed ships usually only steam for 51 days per quarter but, those ships currently deployed as part of the "intercept" effort—designed to enforce U.N. mandated sanctions against Iraq—are expected to increase steaming to 90 days per quarter, a 76% increase.
Navy involvement in the deployment of other U.S. forces is also increasing Service costs.
The eight SL-7 class Fast Sealift ships being used to transport equipment to Saudi Arabia have cost $34-million to activate, crew, equip and deploy. The activation and operation of 16 Roll-On Roll-Off ships from the ready reserve fleet has cost an additional $95-million. A further $9-million in added costs has resulted from the activation and deployment of two Navy prepositioned ships required mainly for aviation logistics support.
The skyrocketing costs of Desert Shield and the looming end of the fiscal year will most likely cause the President to seek a supplemental funding package, Pentagon officials say. The DOD will have three options to fund operation in the Persian Gulf. These include seeking a supplemental appropriation; reprogramming funds between existing programs and soliciting contributions from foreign nations.
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said there "is some cost sharing going on" but declined to specify what countries were giving and how much they have contributed. Mr.
Williams also noted t h a t it would be possible for the President to utilize a little known law, the so-called "Feed and Forage Act" of 1861 that would allow DOD to "spend now and send Congress the bill later." This act has been used by DOD seven times since 1963, often due to late appropriations, he said.
Mr. Williams also noted that naval forces of other nations are actively participating in the U.S. organized blockade of Iraqi and other regional ports. However, while U.S. ships have boarded several vessels to examine cargo and determine destination, Mr. Williams said he was unaware of any boardings undertaken by foreign naval vessels. The multinational naval force now in the Gulf or on its way to the region represents the largest such flotilla in recent history. The Pentagon estimated the cost of the Desert Shield operation in Saudi Arabia to be $2.5-billion through the end of the fiscal year. In early August the cost was estimated at $1.8-billion. The cost includes support for ground troops, reserve call-up and deployment of three aircraft carrier battle groups to the area.
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- Titan Is Challenged In Persian Gulf Maritime Reporter, Mar 2001 #31
Titan Maritime recently had its expertise put to the test with the wreck removal operation of a 426 x 105 x 28 ft. (130 x 32 x 8.5 m), 7,279 grt materials barge. The vessel was transiting the area of Mina Saqr Port in Ras A1 Khaimah, United Arab Emirates on February 3 when it capsized and sank with
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- Seventeen Additional RRF Vessels Activated For Persian Gulf Crisis Maritime Reporter, Jan 1991 #53
maintained by MarAd, have been ordered into activation by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) to help support the U.S. military men and women in the Persian Gulf. The total number of RRF vessels in activation status to date is 65 of the 96- vessel fleet. Of the 17 new vessels activated, 16 are breakbulk
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- Sources Of U.S. Oil Imports And U.S. Oil Companies' Role In The Mideast Maritime Reporter, Mar 1991 #48
today are both far smaller than they were 20 years ago. Oil Supply Data Sources Of U.S. Oil Imports Before The Embargo Of Iraq/Kuwait Oil The Persian Gulf supplied 25.3 percent of the crude oil and petroleum products imported into the United States from January to July 1990: 8.2 percent from Iraq
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- IMPROVING CURRENT STRATEGIC SEALIFT CAPABILITIES Maritime Reporter, Nov 1991 #64
a dramatic practical test. According to the Military Sealift Command, as of April 15, 1991, 10 million tons of cargo had been shipped to the Persian Gulf. The ships utilized for this massive operation, as shown in table 2, were chartered from U.S. and foreign-flag commercial operators or activated
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- Appropriations Conference Approves Use Of Foreign Ships For Ready Reserve Force Maritime Reporter, Nov 1991 #39
the purpose of enhancing our nation's sealift capability. They are too old and too slow and lack many of the required de- sign features. As the Persian Gulf war proved, the military needs ships that have 24-knot speed capability and are maintained in a reduced operating status to ensure quick deliverabil
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- Gulf Crisis Confirms Need For Global Naval Force Maritime Reporter, Feb 1991 #40
Sealift Program Receiving $1.3 Billion Editor's Note: The U.S., like its European Community and Japanese counterparts, is dependent upon the Persian Gulf for a large percentage of its oil needs. In recently published comments, Commander W.H. Nelson, U.S. Navy, a strategic analyst at the Center for
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- 24/7 Voyage Security Risk Assessment … at the click of a mouse Maritime Reporter, Mar 2020 #62
maritime security incidents in West Africa, ‘Gulf of Guinea 2007-2018’; and several publications assessing the ever-changing security situation in the Persian Gulf and Iran, including a decision brief produced in June 2018, ‘Tanker transits through the Persian Gulf’; a July 2019 Whitepaper, ‘Shipping operations
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- M.A.N.-GHH Completes Floating Dock For Iran Maritime Reporter, Jan 1986 #8
construction yard of M.A.N.'s Machinery, Plant and Systems Division (M.A.N.-GHH) on the Weser River. The dock had been ordered by Iran for the Persian Gulf Shipyard Project (PGSP) at a contract price of approximately $18 million. Immediately after launching the dock, named Dolphin, was taken over
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- Intermarine USA Launches Second Navy Minehunter Maritime Reporter, May 1992 #72
the Navy for Reserve Affairs. The ship is a larger version of the successful Lerici Class Italian Minehunters that were so effective in the Persian Gulf mine clearance during Operation Desert Storm. The Heron is 188 feet long, 890 metric tons in weight and built entirely of flexible and resilient
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- NOR-SHIPPING "91 Maritime Reporter, May 1991 #26
Oslo-Based Shipping Conference & Exhibition Expected To Be Largest In Years June 11-14 With the settling of hositilities in the Persian Gulf, the shipping community is once again able to turn its attention to such critical marine industry issues as ship finance, environmental and safety consideratio
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- Newport News Signs Letter Of Intent To Build 600,000-DWT Nuclear-Propelled Tankers Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1977 #10
.) These ships would be delivered toward the end of 1985, 1986 and 1987. It is proposed that the vessels would carry crude oil from the Arabian/Persian Gulf to the offshore U.S. terminals which are proposed for completion in 1979/1980. These tankers could also bring oil to the United States from
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15sensor options for longer mission periods. About the Author For glider users working in ? sheries and conservation, Shea Quinn is the Product Line Manager the Sentinel can run several high-energy passive and active of the Slocum Glider at Teledyne Webb acoustic sensors, on-board processing, and imaging
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 40Vessels General Arnold Chasse, La. The 32-inch CSD will immediately begin work on Phase Four of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project. The project will bene? cially reuse 100% of the dredged material removed from the channel deepening and widening. The General Arnold is the newest,
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 31McAllister Towing Grace McAllister, one of three sisters from Washburn & Doughty. ered WINDEA Courageous, the ? rst of three CTVs for an earlier contract with Windea CTV LLC. Other shipyards known to be build- ing CTVs at the moment include Blount Boats and Sensesco Marine, both in Rhode Island
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 17OpEd Shipbuilding can industrial base. building, repairing, repowering and local communities at a time in which Second, the Congress must pri- maintaining ships, not to mention our maritime strength is needed more oritize stable and predictable budgets the massive supply chain that sup- than ever
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 41Vessels WINDEA Intrepid & WINDEA Courageous The ? rst two designed, BV-classed CTVs for WINDEA CTV. The third newbuild crew and fourth vessels are under construction at St Johns, and transfer vessels construction of the ? fth vessel is well underway at Breaux (CTV) for WIN- Brothers in Louisiana.
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 40Vessels HOS Warhorse & HOS Wild Horse shipyard construction contracts were wrongfully termi- nated. Gulf Island and Hornbeck settled in October 2023, clearing way for the builds to be completed by another yard. Eastern secured the contract to complete the builds from Zurich American Insurance Company
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 8By the Numbers © Dragon Claws / Adobe Stock Rebuilding the Foundations of US Offshore Wind By Philip Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus Global Partners As we enter a New Year, the memories of the shocks to with a potential of 3.3-6.3 GW in Delaware and Chesa- the foundations to the U.S. offshore wind
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 49“As a WHOI scientist myself 20 years ago, I was ‘customer number one’ and applied early versions of the NBOSI sensor technology to my ? eets of Webb Research, now Teledyne Slocum, gliders, L3Harris (OceanServer) Iver2 vehicles, and Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders.” Dave Frantantoni, CEO calibration.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41In the Shipyard Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs Van Oord Upgrades Heavy-lift Gulf Craft, Incat Crowther an Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Team on Virgin Island Ferry VSvanen will receive a major upgrade: the gan- try crane will be extended by 25m, making the vessel ready to handle the
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17Column space does not allow for a full description of all that evaluating USVs in broader and more intense set of missions. occurred at this three-day event, so I will focus on the key- • Australia has become a leader is USV experimentation. notes and panels that concentrated most-intently on uncrewed
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 30Feature Power & Propulsion reactors” putting out equivalent of up to 10 mWe electric- ity could be used on smaller vessels. A recent release from Crowley announced its cooperation with BWX Technolo- Rose Cay Rose Cay gies—which provides reactors for U.S. military vessels and Maritime’s tug Maritime’s
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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 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 80Index page MRNov23:MN INDEX PAGE 11/3/2023 1:56 PM Page 1 ADVERTISER INDEX Page Advertiser Website Phone# C2 . . . . .ABS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.eagle.org/outlook2023 . .
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 68TECH FEATURE: AUTONOMY Photos courtesy Dave Meron International Efforts Accelerate the Development of Unmanned Maritime Systems By George Galdorisi ew would argue that unmanned systems represent that many nations and navies have been experimenting with one of the breakthrough technologies that could
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 66TECH FEATURE: GEARS While the Karl Senner LLC reference list is long, a strong recent win was last- month’s delivery of a pair of Damen 3013 Multi Cats, built by Conrad Shipyard for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. Credit: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Gearing Up for a Hybrid Future Karl Senner LLC is a ? xture
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 61MARKET IN FOCUS: OFFSHORE WIND Chart Intelatus Global Partners ing resource on the leasing and permitting of offshore wind long lifetime, they will require constant routine inspection, and plans to approve over 13 GW of project capacity before repair and maintenance, the technicians for which are trans- th
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 60MARKET IN FOCUS: OFFSHORE WIND The $1 Billion Offshore Wind Prize for U.S. Shipyards The growing CTV and SOV market represents a long-term demand for at least 60 to more than 130 vessels. By Philip Lewis, Research Director, Intelatus Global Partners he U.S. offshore wind market presents a $1 billion the
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22MTR 100 data to inform how we work and understand the ocean,” said for EverClean. “We have operators in Plymouth that supervise Kinnaman. “Greensea IQ will use our technology and the in- these robots as they clean and maintain ships and collect data telligence that enables to extend our presence into the
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 48ADVERTISER INDEX Page Company Website Phone# 27 Ahead Sanitation www.aheadsanitationsystems.com (337) 330-4407 19 All American Marine www.AllAmericanMarine.com (360) 647-7602 35 Appleton Marine, Inc www.appletonmarine.com (920) 738-5432 7 Clean Gulf www.cleangulf.org Visit us online 41
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October 2023 - Marine News page: 36Offshore Vessels Blue Ocean Transfers: A New Jones Act CTV Player Emerges By Eric Haun There’s a new player in the Jones Act crew transfer ves- Houston-based SEACOR Marine, an established op- sel (CTV) market: Blue Ocean Transfers (BOT), based on erator of offshore vessels, will provide technical and