Joe Hudspeth

1. MERGING ONTO
UNPAVED HIGHWAYS
Joe Hudspeth
Business Development Manager
All American Marine, Inc.

2. OVERVIEW
 Environmental
 Social
 Fiscal
 Regulatory
 Technology
 Logistics
 Success on the Marine Highways
◦ Be good stewards
◦ Make money
◦ Commute: faster and easier

3. MARINE HIGHWAYS
 Fully comply with short sea shipping regs
 Diverse
 Energy-efficient
 Climate-friendly
 Goal
◦ Self-sustaining
◦ Commercially-viable
◦ Public benefits
 Reduced surface congestion
 Fewer Greenhouse Gas Emissions
 Improved safety
 Additional sealift resources for national defense

4. MARINE HIGHWAYS

5. MARINE HIGHWAYS

6. WIND FARMS

7. DOWN STREAM ISSUES
 Tsunami Debris
 Ice Floes
 Drought
 Wildlife
 Flip Side
◦ US Airways
◦ 9/11
◦ Oakland Bridge

8. PREDESTINED to FAIL?
 Spirit of Ontario
◦ Tariffs
 Hawaii Superferry
◦ Surfers, Whales, Mongoose
 Susitna
◦ Inadequate facilities
 Low Wake Ferry
◦ Sustainable budget
 Kingston
◦ Scheduling

9. ROAD RAGE
 Vehicle transportation
takes precedence
 Conflict of Development
◦ Marine vs. land
 Right-of-Way
◦ Retro-planing
 Developed shorelines
 Shoreline Issues
◦ Pollution
◦ Wake

10. FACILITIES
 Colman Dock – Seattle
◦ Available
◦ Accessible
◦ Temporary seems Temporary

11. ROADBLOCKS
 USCG NVIC 9-97
(change 1)
◦ Structural Fire Protection
 Large Passenger Vessels
 No More High Speed Ferries
 TWIC
 ADA
◦ Reasonable and
practical

12. GREEN TECHNOLOGY
 Compliance = Cash
◦ Too expensive for success
 By-product inefficiency
◦ SCR Systems
◦ Whale Finder
 Not any easier on a boat

13. GREEN TECHNOLOGY
 Not Pioneered for Marine Industry
◦ Size
◦ Weight
◦ Marinized Version
 Pioneers
◦ Hydrogen
◦ Wind
◦ Solar
◦ Batteries
◦ LNG
◦ Hybrid
 Best bet?

14. PUBLIC PERCEPTION
 What is Low Wake?

15. SEA of DREAMS
 Cuba
 Wind Farms
 Cruise Industry
◦ Backyard Ports of Entry
 Charleston
 Tampa
 New Orleans
 Galveston
 Green Technology that makes cents

16. LIFE is a HIGHWAY
 Intermodal Transportation
 Right tool for the job
◦ Make schedule
 Speed
 Fuel
 Trendsetters
◦ Europe
◦ New York

17. Beware THE Mongoose
Joe Hudspeth
jhudspeth@allamericanmarine.com