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Editorial

MARITIME

REPORTER

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ENGINEERING NEWS

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CEO John C. O’Malley

It’s all about jomalley@marinelink.com

President & COO

Publisher & Editor

Greg Trauthwein the Molecule

Photo Justin Zurre trauthwein@marinelink.com

Editor - MarineNews

Eric Haun aving sat in this seat for 30+ ? uid, ? ow dynamics and aerospace industry haun@marinelink.com years, it always amazes me experience; but zero maritime experience.

Offshore Energy Editor

Amir Garanovic what I don’t know. The world He speaks rapidly yet cohesively as he garanovic@offshore-engineer.com-

His obviously a big place, a big explains the journey to becoming an alterna-

Production Manager

Irina Vasilets place made to seem much smaller with the tive fuel leader in conservative maritime vasilets@marinelink.com quantity and rapidity of information ? ow, sector, logging world-? rsts in the use of

Production & Graphic Design

Nicole Ventimiglia for better or for worse. That said, it’s impos- hydrogen as marine fuel, a story we present nicole@marinelink.com sible to keep up with all of the evolving in eight full pages starting on page 22.

Corporate Staff activities of companies leading the various The path toward decarbonization is a long

Manager, Marketing

Mark O’Malley sectors, if for no better reason than the vast one, fraught with many bumps, hurdles, momalley@marinelink majority shun media coverage unless it’s walls and unknowns. There is palpable un-

Accounting

Esther Rothenberger pre-planned, paid or otherwise orchestrated certainty regarding the introduction of alter- rothenberger@marinelink.com +1.212.477.6700 ext 6810 by corporate policy. native fuels in the maritime sector, and for

Manager, Information Technology Services

That’s why my visit late last year with good reason as the maritime environment is

Vladimir Bibik

Roy Campe, Chief Technology Of? cer, tough, remote and unforgiving. While diesel

Circulation

Kathleen Hickey | k.hickey@marinelink.com

CMB.TECH – this month’s cover story remains the dominant form of fuel and will +1.212.477.6700 ext 6320 – at the organization’s hydrogen refueling continue to be for a very long time, change

Sales

Vice President, Sales station in Antwerp stands out as a breath of is happening now, a change that will only

Terry Breese breese@marinelink.com | +1.561.732.1185 fresh editorial air, where Campe took me on increase in speed with the con? uence of

Lucia Annunziata a whirlwind trip through his career and his legislative mandate and technology devel- annunziata@marinelink.com mission to effectively future-proof the CMB opment.

+1.212.477.6700 ext 6240 ? eet of ships and port equipment. While “HYDROGEN” is the bold head-

John Cagni cagni@marinelink.com | +1.631.472.2715

Not only did he let us inside the journey line on the cover, make no mistake: Campe

Frank Covella to dual-fuel hydrogen, he wanted to share and the CMB.TECH team are fuel agnostic. covella@marinelink.com | +1.561.732.1659 with us and the rest of the maritime world He is not committed to any single alternate

Tricia Garrett garrett@marinelink.com | +1.516.441.7254 insights not simply on the press release fuel, and is clear that it is not necessarily

Mike Kozlowski inspiring successes, but also on the number the CapEx cost of the new and emerging kozlowski@marinelink.com | +1.561.733.2477 of hurdles and challenges that have been technology that is the driving force when

Gary Lewis lewis@marinelink.com | +1.516.441.7258 crossed; as well as the ones that remain. making decisions, rather the cost, availabil-

International Sales

Until Campe started with CMB in 2015, ity and reliability of ‘the molecule.’

Scandinavia & Germany

Roland Persson, Orn Marketing AB, Box 184, he was an industry outsider with volumes of

S-271 24, Ystad, Sweden roland@orn.nu; +46 411 184 00 Founder:

John J. O’Malley [1905 - 1980]

Charles P. O’Malley [1928 - 2000]

John E. O’Malley [1930 - 2019]

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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