The steamer Alpena on Lake Michigan, July 29, 2023. Alpena was sidelined for six months at the beginning of the 2025 season due to critical repairs to her steam powerplant. 2025 marks her 82nd season of sailing the Great Lakes. (Photo by Brendan Falkowski)

Op-Ed: State of Great Lakes shipbuilding

By Brendan Falkowski, Owner, Shipwatcher News Just over the last few months shipbuilding has gone from a forgotten industry in America to routinely making front page headlines. The current world climate has

The relationship between biofouling management and the maritime industry is a complicated one.

Op-Ed: Biofouling—A challenge the industry can’t ignore

By Nick Cowley, president of Cathelco The relationship between biofouling management and the maritime industry is a complicated one. Despite the proven benefits of limiting biofouling growth—including emissions reduction, protection of ecosystems,

At press time, the federal government is in a shutdown, with federal workers furloughed.

Op-Ed: Government shutdown—The cost of congressional inaction

By Tracy Zea, President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) Niels Bohr, the Danish theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about

Op-Ed: Fuel pathways need solid foundations

LNG has created a strong basis in terms of safety, emissions, availability and costs that biomethane and e-methane benefit from, says Lana Sissing, Client Manager at Titan Clean Fuels. While there is

With the age of vessels at a 40-year high ship owners and operators need to act now and use asset management technology.

Op-Ed: Asset management vital for aging global fleet

By Adam Dennett, CEO, SpecTec With the age of vessels at a 40-year high ship owners and operators need to act now and use asset management technology combined with a culture of

ABS examines LNG, methanol and ammonia as alternative fuel options for newbuild vessels in the latest technical and operational advisory.

Op-Ed: Exploring fuel options for newbuild vessels

By Konstantinos Vouroutzis, ABS Senior Project Manager, Global Sustainability Center Greece ABS examines LNG, methanol and ammonia as alternative fuel options for newbuild vessels in the latest technical and operational advisory. Vessel

A regulated waste stream that every ship has to manage, MARPOL Annex 1 sludge consists of non-recyclable waste oils produced during normal shipping operations by lubrication, oil filters, drip trays and fuel purification processes.

Op-Ed: How a sludge problem becomes a decarbonization solution

By Nicholas Ball, CEO, XFuel With only 15 years to eliminate the majority of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the shipping industry is facing a challenge to deliver decarbonization at an affordable

Op-Ed: Behind the supply chain of decarbonization

By Mükremin İnan, AVS Ship Supply Global, supply services director Decarbonization dominates the maritime agenda, and rightly so. Alternative fuels, emissions targets, and retrofit strategies fill headlines and policy papers. But behind

Through tailored engineering and a customer-centric approach, Eaton’s Filtration Division remains at the forefront of providing innovative, sustainable systems in response to evolving liquid filtration demands.

Op-Ed: Engineering reliability at sea via smarter filtration

By Ulrich Latz, global product manager, industrial filtration; and Simone Ortner, global engineering and product manager, hydraulic filtration, Eaton Technologies GmbH The health of a ship’s propulsion, hydraulic and cooling systems often

Op-Ed: Preventing falls overboard—Industry’s call to lead

By Mike Breslin, Senior Director – Safety & Sustainability, AWO America’s tugboat, towboat, and barge industry is the safest mode of bulk freight transportation in the United States. We have significantly less

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