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PROPOSED MAINE FLOATING WIND FARM PROJECT ON SCHEDULE BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS Construction of two floating wind turbines, each generating 6MW (megawatts) of electricity, is scheduled to begin in 2017 for deployment off the coast of Maine. Professor Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and principal investigator for the...

World Shipping Council’s Koch Predicts “Very Challenging” 2016 By Stas Margaronis Ocean carriers - and by extension, shippers - will be facing “very challenging and competitive” conditions in 2016, according to Christopher Koch, Senior Advisor at the World Shipping Council.... Please see full story: http://www.ajot.com/blogs/full/blog-world-shipping-councils-koch-predicts-very-challenging-2016...

DO RUSSIA/CHINA NAVAL CHALLENGES = NEW U.S. SHIPBUILDING? BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS   RUSSIA/CHINA CHALLENGE TO U.S. Admiral John Richardson, chief of U.S. Naval Operations, has warned that Russia and China are posing growing challenges to the United States Navy from the Black Sea and Mediterranean to the Pacific. Admiral  Richardson told the Financial Times that Russian President Vladimir...

A NEW SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SHIPYARD CAN REDUCE CALIFORNIA’S I-5 TRUCK CONGESTION, EMISSIONS & CREATE NEW JOBS BY STAS MARGARONIS A new state-of-the-art shipyard located in the Stockton area could have a transformational effect in establishing Stockton as an international trade center as well as reducing long-hauling trucking costs and emissions in California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV). New...

Long Beach Chamber Provides Marine 5 Highway Forum By Stas Margaronis The Green Business Council, a committee of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, hosted several presentations at its September 16th meeting. I discussed the Marine 5 Highway vessel service shifting truckloads along the I-5 freeway corridor onto ships between Northern and Southern California ports. The Marine 5 Highway is...

ELON MUSK & TESLA ARE REBUILDING THE UNITED STATES BY STAS MARGARONIS Elon Musk is making the United States a global leader in car manufacturing with his development of the Tesla models of electric cars which eliminate the need for gasoline and the internal combustion engine. The company is developing a car battery factory to improve the range and reduce the costs of its electric cars and to...

CAN ILWU RESTORE PACIFIC PORT COMPETITIVENESS? BY STAS MARGARONIS   Introduction International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) executives told California agricultural exporters at the recent Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) conference that the ILWU can make ports more competitive. However, there must be collaboration between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association...

Automated Long Beach Container Terminal & Marine 5 Highway Ships Can Reduce I-710/5/580 Truck Congestion & Emissions  By Stas Margaronis Super economical, 18,000 twenty foot unit container ships will be arriving at the Port of Long Beach’s new Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) after the automated terminal opens in early 2016. LBCT will allow Long Beach to handle the largest ships in...

SJV TRUCKING/SJV EXPRESS: CALIFORNIA’S MARINE 5 HIGHWAY BY STAS MARGARONIS  New coastal Marine 5 Highway container ships sailing between Stockton/Oakland and Long Beach/Los Angeles could be the answer for San Joaquin Valley (SJV) exporters and importers facing growing delays and congestion at the ports of Oakland, Long Beach and Los Angeles. The Port of Oakland is increasingly challenged in...

CALIFORNIA DESALINATION STRATEGIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH RANDY TRUBY BY STAS MARGARONIS   Randy Truby, California-based desalination consultant and comptroller for the International Desalination Association, told RBTUS in an interview that he believes states experiencing long-term drought conditions, such as California, may need to consider new investments in desalination plants in order to...