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Greg Trauthwein trauthwein@marinelink.com

Offshore Energy Editor

Decarbonization, Emission Reduction, The Path need to have the vessels, the personnel, the

Bartolomej Tomic tomic@offshore-engineer.com to Zero … whatever you call it, however you logistics infrastructure to install and main- feel about it, the future of maritime is increas- tain it will be off the charts.

Production Manager ingly de? ned by mandates from authorities

Irina Vasilets

In this edition we have a pair of features vasilets@marinelink.com which determine the types and amounts of addressing this topic directly, the ? rst from

Production & Graphic Design emissions from commercial ships and boats.

Nicole Ventimiglia

Paul Bartlett starting on page 22 which nicole@marinelink.com

Last month news from the IMO came out examines how shipyard capacity (or lack

Corporate Staff regarding the adoption of a revised strategy

Manager, Marketing thereof) could effectively pump the brakes

Mark O’Malley to reduce GHG emissions from ships, the momalley@marinelink on decarbonization. Immediately following 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG

Accounting on page 26 is a feature from Phil Lewis,

Emissions from Ships. Whether you think

Esther Rothenberger

Director of Research, Intelatus, which takes rothenberger@marinelink.com this was a step too far or that the measure 212-477-6700 ext 6810 a look a bit further down the road in analyz- was not taken far enough is irrelevant. The

Manager, Information Technology Services ing the inevitable impact of offshore ? oat-

Vladimir Bibik bibik@marinelink.com important takeaway here is that the course ing wind and its demand for new anchor

Circulation toward emission reduction is set, and the

Kathleen Hickey k.hickey@marinelink.com handling tug construction.

212-477-6700 ext 6320 restrictions are going to only get more oner-

While I am loathe to pick favorites, I must

Sales ous and costly to ship and boat owners glob-

Vice President, Sales admit that my nod for the ‘must read’ of this

Terry Breese ally. That said, the immediate future from breese@marinelink.com; +1 561-732-1185 edition is our interview with Hydrocomp’s the operational side is business as usual, as

Lucia Annunziata

Don MacPherson (and no, not because I annunziata@marinelink.com; the technology and the infrastructure for the +1 212-477-6700 ext 6240 wrote it). I’ve known Don and Hydrocomp vast majority of future fuels is still a genera-

John Cagni founder Jill Aaron for most of my 30+ cagni@marinelink.com; +1 631-472-2715 tion away. But taking a blind eye now as to years in this seat, and my interview with

Frank Covella how your ? eet is going to look and operate covella@marinelink.com; +1 561-732-1659

Don earlier this year on the topic of the in the future is not advised.

Mike Kozlowski business of measuring ship emissions covers

August is our traditional look inside kozlowski@marinelink.com; +1 561-733-2477 a lot of ground, including both GHG and shipbuilding, and to that end the decarbon-

Gary Lewis radiated noise emissions. Don offers some lewis@marinelink.com; +1 516-441-7258 ization discussion tendrils reach deep inside fairly candid insights on the good and bad

International Sales the ship design and construction business.

Scandinavia & Germany of the rules to monitor and measure emis-

Roland Persson

Energy transition in its cumulative form

Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 sions, as well as some excellent insights on

Ystad, Sweden is happening right now, globally, with the roland@orn.nu; +46 411-184 00 the business of designing and building clean rapid expansion of offshore wind as a power

Germany, Austria & Switzerland and quiet ships in our feature The KISS

Tony Stein source. The whole offshore wind phenom- tony.r.stein@btinternet.com

Principle & Managing, Measuring Ship +44 1892 512777 ena will entail an offshore construction

Emissions, starting on page 34.

and maintenance program on a scale never Founder: before seen, not even in the offshore oil and

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980]

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000] gas sector. To put it simply, there will be a

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019] ton of ‘stuff’ going in to the water, and the

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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