MARAD Chief David Matsuda, in his July 14 2010 testimony to the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces, outlines what is next for domestic maritime affairs. In a laundry list of as many as ten items on the plate of DOT’s maritime modal arm, shortsea shipping ranks all but dead last in terms of MARAD’s priority list.
The tree that saved a nation
Gambol Industries is not going away
Thank you Todd Pacific Shipyards of Seattle, for hosting a tour for the West Coast branch of WISTA.
China is on a bulk-building spree in a bold bid to take the extreme volatility out of the market.
What's holding us back from an efficient marine highway system to reduce traffic and the resultant environmental impact here in the US.
The climate calls out, health issues abound, regulators are writing legislation faster than the operators can comply and the maritime and land based power community pushes for increased efficiency to improve it's bottom line. Sound familiar? What we have here is what I often call the "All horn and no drive shaft" approach. Everyone wants results however, no one wants to fund whats needed to prove the technology. We've seen diesel propulsion come full circle so let's see how we can get these issues off center, prove the technology that can deal with it through independent research and testing and leave the simple ROI calculations to the ship owners.
Could there be a faint whiff of insanity in the air, emanating from the giant South Korean shipyards?
The SUT Technical Conference 2010 will be held in Rio de Janeiro and promises to be the main subsea event of the year in Brazil.
A northern European group of merchants that, for some years, was a significant maritime and military power