by Stas | May 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Photo: Port of Long Beach BY STAS MARGARONIS On May 10th, the Pacific Offshore Wind Summit, hosted by Offshore Wind California, heard federal, state and industry leaders urge California to move with speed and scale to make offshore wind a reality. The steps include...
by Stas | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Today, I’m thankful to live a high-carbon lifestyle and wish the rest of the world could too. Energy poverty = poverty. #decarbonization is dangerous and deadly.”—Tweet from Jason Issac, Texas Public Policy Foundation executive and director of the Life:Powered...
by Stas | Apr 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Photo: Matson By Stas Margaronis The United States needs a national maritime strategy to identify commercial, shipbuilding, manpower and military sealift shortfalls as well as solutions, according to officials from the Transportation Institute and the Navy League of...
by Stas | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Photo: U.S. Navy “I’m not hating on DDGs (Destroyer, Guided Missile) – my only point was that last year Congress added a third and the reason we didn’t budget for three is, again, we don’t see the yards being able to produce three a year. We don’t see them being able...
by Stas | Mar 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship “Not too many years ago, we had five times as many contractors and there was more competition and there was more creativity… As these larger guys kept buying the smaller guys coming up with the ideas, and then encapsulate them and...
by Stas | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The 960 TEU military sealift container ship proposed for construction at Bender Shipbuilding & Repair IN THIS REPORT: THE PROBLEM ADMIRAL WARNS OF SEALIFT SHORTFALLS A NEW STRATEGY FOR U.S. SHIPBUILDING 2001 PROPOSAL TO U.S. AIR FORCE U.S. NAVY INSISTS ON...