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Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

January 2026

Maritime Power

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Maritime Power dominates discussions across maritime – from large fleets to single-vessel operations – as emission reduction, efficiency optimization and fuel transition remain center stage.

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Table of Contents

  1. Capital markets reshape port infrastructure: Energy demands reshape investment strategies

    By Michael Vanderbeek, Maritime and Coastal Planning Lead at GHD; Victor Tirado, Maritime and Coastal Market Sector Lead at GHD; and Ron Heffron, Vice President of Future Fuels at GHD.

  2. The Machinery That Doesn’t Ask for Attention

    By James Kim

    Why One Korean Manufacturer Built Its Reputation Where Failure Is Not an Option

  3. Sense–Predict–Act

    By Capt Gajanan Karanjikar

    A Big-Data Playbook for Smarter Maritime Supply Chains.

  4. LNG’s Place in the New Fuel Future

    By Wendy Laursen

    The debate on the adoption of the IMO’s Net Zero Framework may have been postponed, but the issues for shipowners haven’t gone away.

  5. Battery Breakthroughs at Sea: The Next Wave of Maritime Electrification

    By Michael Kei, ABS Vice President, Technology

  6. Maritime Power OEMs Prep a Platform for Change

    By Wendy Laursen

    Engine OEMs are anticipating shipowners’ future needs for new fuels and greater operational efficiency.

  7. Cimolai Technology and the Full-Electric Shift

    Rising Interest in Electric Boat Handling

  8. Charting Her Own Course: Anu Peippo’s Maritime Journey and Steerprop’s Offshore Future

    By Greg Trauthwein

    As the maritime industry faces a historic transformation, automation can only take the industry so far. People have always, and will continue to power the cumulative industry to ensure safe and efficient operations. In this segment of “A Maritime Life”, we visit with Anu Peippo, Offshore Segment Director, Steerprop, a woman who started her career at sea onboard offshore service vessels and tankers, an experience she has parlayed into a vibrant shoreside career, today, as the offshore segment sales lead for Rauma, Finland-based propulsion specialist Steerprop.

  9. A New Class of Low-Emission Cement Carrier

    Heidelberg Materials, Hartmann Group Advance Methanol Maritime Technology

  10. Vessels

    New Delivers, Orders, Designs & Concepts