The document discusses various opportunities and challenges for developing marine highway systems as an alternative form of transportation in the United States. It outlines factors to consider such as environmental impacts, regulations, technology, and public perception. It also analyzes past projects that have succeeded and failed, and identifies roadblocks such as costs, regulations, and conflicts with other forms of development. The document advocates for pioneering green technologies and taking lessons from trendsetters in other regions to overcome challenges and realize the potential benefits of marine highways.

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