EDITOR’S DESKShipbuilding’s Dilemma: Good Problems to Have.f shipyards are the bellwether of maritime market trends, then U.S. yards should today be considered the industry’s market leaders, as well. Notwithstanding the re-cent (and dramatic) drop in global crude oil prices, the ongoing, so-called ‘domes-I tic energy boom’ has left American shipyards with as many as 30 deep draft vessels on their collective backlogs. A robust inland recapitalization program is also underway with the long awaited (but still mired in red tape) subchapter M towboat rules lurking in the wings. Thousands of brown water vessels will likely need some sort of re