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The Maritime Executive
Plans are moving ahead for the expansion of the Howard Street Tunnel — a project expected to boost the Port of Baltimore’s ability to handle container traffic — thanks to a joint effort by the State of Maryland and CSX Transportation to secure additional funding.
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Trade Only Today
Regal Marine founder Paul Kuck took his first boat to Austria in 1975. “My dad was very passionate about international sales,” says Tim Kuck, executive vice president of Regal and one of three Kuck children running the company today. “Up until the time he died, he was traveling internationally. We’ve got long-term relationships with our international dealers.”
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Fedscoop
Acting Sectary of the Navy Thomas Modly said Wednesday he plans in a “couple days” to submit to the sectary of Defense his plan to build the Navy of the future, which will rely heavily on improved IT communications and cybersecurity on ships.
Modly stressed the need to think beyond just ships in the Force Structure Assessment, the Navy’s plan to grow its fleet to 355 vessels up from the roughly 290 it has today.
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The Maritime Executive
The Unified Command (UC) responding to the grounding of the car carrier Golden Ray is finalizing plans for the construction of an environmental protection barrier to be built around the vessel. The 20,000 dwt Golden Ray partially capsized on September 8 last year while heading outbound from the Port of Brunswick with 4,200 vehicles on board.
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Boating Industry
There have been several developments on the trade and tariff front in the past few weeks. While NMMA said it is encouraged with the recent ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) and the initial Phase One Trade Agreement with China, the association says more work is needed to remove tariffs and ensure the recreational boating industry can continue to grow.
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Riviera
Qatar-headquartered QTerminals has agreed to invest US$120M in Port of Olvia on the Black Sea in Ukraine after securing a 35-year concession. Agreements were signed over the weekend in Kiev, Ukraine covering this concession and future investment plans.
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The Log
The House of Representatives is back in session for the New Year and it wasn’t long before lawmakers were considering a piece of federal legislation potentially affecting boaters nationwide. On deck during a recent session of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment was the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020.
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The Maritime Executive
While there is economic merit to sailing extended length barge trains along inland waterways, the cost of lengthening navigation locks can be prohibitive. It may be possible to use water power to transit non-powered sections of a barge train through navigation locks. The ability to sail barge trains along inland waterways provides a nation with a low cost method of moving massive volumes of bulk cargo.
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