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- M a r i t i m e Administration Names George Bornkessel To N e w Orleans Post Maritime Reporter, May 1977 #56
F.X. McNerney, Director of the Maritime Administration's Central Region, announced that George T. Bornkessel has been named Region Port Development Officer in the Office of Port and Intermodal Development in New Orleans, La.
In his new assignment, Mr.
Bornkessel is responsible for initiating, developing, and conducting programs to promote the development and utilization of ports and port facilities; conducting Region port emergency planning; promoting the National Defense Executive Reserve Program; developing internal plans for continuity of government; and coordinating these activities with other Mar Ad offices, Federal agencies, state and local entities and counterpart activities in commerce transport activities.
The Central Region extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the northern borders of Nebraska, Iowa, and Kentucky (comprising 12 Gulf and central Mississippi River Basin States, plus western Florida).
Until recently, Mr. Bornkessel served as manager, Southern Division of United Brands Company (successor to the United Fruit Company). As manager, Southern Division, Mr. Bornkessel supervised activities of manager of terminal and vessel operations, breakbulk banana stevedoring operations, breakbulk general cargo operations, and ro/ro general cargo stevedoring in various Gulf ports. Previously, he served in various other capacities over a period of 35 years for the United Fruit Company.
He is a graduate of the State University of New York Maritime College, and currently holds a master's license in the merchant marine.
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- Passenger Vessel Sector Faces Winding Path Back to ‘Normal’ Marine News, Jan 2022 #18
first of three new 4,500 double-ended passenger vessels designed with quick turnarounds in mind, SSG Michael H. Ollis, from Eastern Shipbuilding (in western Florida), in Summer 2021; the vessel was formally commissioned in October 2021. The ferry, constructed at the shipyard’s Allanton and Port St. Joe
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 30, a subsid- This type of technology was ? rst tested successfully in the iary of The Metals Company, found that organisms continue 1970s by major Western corporations like Shell, BP and Ken- to be present and alive 12 months after having been in? uenced SMD developed the mining machinery planned
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23if you measure it in terms of the amount of crustal material produced by volcanoes,” added Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, geology professor at THE UNKNOWN Western Washington University. “This is where new tectonic plates are created, and where hydrothermal vent and mineral deposits form.” IN THE What’s All
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8and We do know that numerous drifting contact mines have been S largely unsophisticated underwater weapon can disrupt observed and neutralized in the western Black Sea, and it is an adversary’s operational and strategic plans. When the war believed that these are moored contact mines that have bro- began
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32time Contracts Director. “Ports are a major bottleneck at the mo- enough to make it comparable to ? xed wind, says Green. ment, certainly in Western Europe.” The development of the ? oating wind industry will be differ- The crane will have two hooks, one on the main boom and ent to that of ?
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15Cruise ships can be cleaned during normal passenger transfer port calls. Cleanings and cargo operations can occur simul- taneously. How is this possible? The EverClean robots are small and require only a single cargo van on the pier. Multiple robots can be deployed simultaneously. Precision navigation
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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: 27Feature Passenger Vessel Safety ? re risk and related technical issues. Canada: Transport Canada.” In the U.S., last February, the Coast Guard issued a Another top issue, just as in the U.S. – workforce re- Marine Safety Alert: “Saltwater intrusion causes damage cruitment, which he called a “key issue for
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 40be explored with ease thanks to a digital 3D model inspected in much greater detail than ever before, including Tunveiled by Curtin University and the Western Austra- with use of visualization technologies such as virtual reality. lian Museum following the recent 143rd anniversary of its loss. “By visiting
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 19inception so that there are multiple paths for power to ? ow. The advent of HVDC breakers and commercial deployment of Skucas that technology in western European over the next ? ve years Ruta Skucas is a federal may make the networked solution feasible, but the New Eng- energy regulatory and land
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36G REAT of HIPS S 2023 Eastern Shipbuilding OPC: A “G -C ”AME HANGER he much-needed replacement for the Coast The OPC is based on the Vard Marine Inc., VARD 7 110 Guard’s long-serving medium endurance cut- Offshore Patrol Vessel design. Vard has been working with ters (WMECs) took a giant step closer
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12sulfonic acid (PFOS), although other PFASs may already transitioned to new chemicals. The requirements of also be used. PFOS has been restricted in most Western coun- tries since 2009 under the Stockholm Convention because of regulatory bodies such as the ECHA in Europe and the EPA in its impact on human
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 49R.B. WEEKS Eastern Shipbuilding Group Florida shipbuilder Eastern Ship- rier islands and nourishing beaches an electrical power, propulsion, and building Group (ESG) this Spring de- lost to erosion, aiding the U.S. Army dredge machinery package by Royal livered R.B. Weeks, a 8,550 cubic yard Corps of
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50with seven secondhand RoRo ship. routes via the so-called ‘Nautical Highway’ on the Central, “Our start was connecting the islands with secondhand old- Western, and Eastern sides.” er ships,” said Mary Ann, noting that it was dif? cult and costly Today FastCat has about 600 employees, 300 on shore, 300
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 71SUBSEA EUROPE SERVICES www.subsea-europe.com/ Established at the beginning of 2020 with the goal to “simplify marine data acquisition” and make it possible for every organization to collect and evaluate marine data professionally, Subsea Europe Services provides easy access to precision sensors and
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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: 18these restrictions and restored the acreage for lease sale. sales. However, the Department of the Interior has indicated The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Loui- they will not initiate this environmental work until after ? - siana’s determined that the challenged actions were proce- nalizing
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 40Vessels Voyager Space Perspective Space tourism company Space Perspective is converting will arrive to stabilize the capsule, which will be lifted back an offshore support vessel (OSV) to function as the world’s onto the Voyager by a custom-built A-frame provided by ? rst “marine spaceport”. The
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 52the cruise vessel located in the dock hall. “Over the course of the past year, we set up good solutions for the three shipyard locations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Neptun Ship Design in Rostock, the prefabricated module plant in Wismar, the hotel in Wismar, Andreas Laible as well as for Lloyd Werft
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 46Bunkering Vessel KEYS Azalea Mitsubishi Shipbuilding christened and launced a lique? ed natural gas (LNG) bunker- ing vessel, the ? rst to operate in western Japan, built under contract for KEYS Bunkering West Japan Co., Ltd. The ceremony took place at the Enoura Plant at MHI's Shimonoseki Shipyard &
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24SHIPYARD CAPACITY Panagiotis Mitrou, Philip Lewis, Lloyd’s Register Intelatus Global Partners (see chart below). But the demand will still be there for US- some scope for upgrades and conversions. In mid-July, Horn- built SOVs and CTVs. beck Offshore revealed a deal with Florida-based Eastern Intelatus’
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July 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37slowdown future beach erosion, the Army Corps placed 600 tons of stone and approximately 35,000 cubic yards of sand adjacent to a groin located on the western portion of the Coney Island peninsula in Sea Gate. Groins are shoreline structures that are perpendicular to the beach that are designed to retain
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May 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37on just making those as best you can and pumping them out. Little did Sullivan realize that shortly thereafter, the executive That’s how business works; I get it. But if you’re a scientist director spot at FAU Harbor Branch would become vacant. who’s really into developing novel instruments for the