MARITIMEREPORTERANDENGINEERING NEWSM A R I N E L I N K . C O MHQ118 E. 25th St., 2nd FloorEDITORIALNew York, NY 10010 USATel +1 212 477 6700Fax +1 212 254 6271www.marinelink.comFL Of? ce 215 NW 3rd StBoynton Beach, FL 33435-4009Tel +1 561 732 4368Fax +1 561 732 6984PublishersJohn E. O’Malley John C. O’Malleyjomalley@marinelink.comAssociate Publisher/Editorial DirectorMaking the ConnectionGreg Trauthwein trauthwein@marinelink.comVice President, SalesRob Howard howard@marinelink.comWeb EditorEric Haun haun@marinelink.comThe marine industry’s move toward digitalization ... big data ... the fourth industrial revolution ... call it what you will, is palpable. Web ContributorOn writing this September’s editorial I have just arrived in Hamburg, Germany for my 14th SMM exhibition, and nowhere else Michelle Howard mhoward@marinelink.comis it more clear that the this evolution is in full swing. When I started attending the SMM exhibition in 1992, the exhibition halls Editorial ContributorsElaine Maslin - Scotlandwere ? lled with heavy machinery – mammoth diesels engines, gearboxes, propellers and bridge systems. Today, in 2018, there is Tom Mulligan - UKClaudio Paschoa - Brazila decided lack of heavy machinery, replaced with displays touting digital solutions.Peter Pospiech - GermanyWilliam Stoichevski - ScandinaviaAs we all know, as we all have seen, digital promise comes with the potential for peril in the form of cyber breaches. This Productionmonth starting on page 32, Patricia Keefe reports on ports’ efforts to raise their collective cyber security game. But this is not Irina Vasilets vasilets@marinelink.comNicole Ventimiglia nicole@marinelink.comjust a port story, in fact far from it. In today’s 24/7/365 world of ‘always on, always connected’ logistics and support, this cyber Corporate Staffsecurity issue transcends country or industry. Mark O’Malley, Marketing ManagerEsther Rothenberger, AccountingThe ‘connected’ ship today is not simply a seamless connection between ship and shore, indeed it is much more. Today’s ship Information Technologyis simply one node in the interconnected logistics web, and a disruption in one node can quickly and seamlessly spread globally, Vladimir Bibikquickly. The best-known incident was the “notPetya” malware outbreak in October 2017, which struck A.P. Moller-Maersk’s IT Emin Yuce department, and through that, it’s APM terminals at ports worldwide, including at Los Angeles, Long Beach and NY/Newark. SubscriptionKathleen Hickey k.hickey@marinelink.comThe shutdown there and at other ports, and the ensuing cleanup of backlog, cost Maersk around $300 million. While the Maersk incident was arguably the most publicized, trust that there are many more daily, around the globe, that SalesLucia Annunziata annunziata@marinelink.comthreaten to disrupt the maritime industry and the global logistics chain. The challenge today is for operators globally to learn +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220from past mistakes, while plotting for the future.Terry Breese breese@marinelink.com +1 561 732 1185Looking at the traditional ‘hardware’ side of our business, I am very happy to present an article from Jeff Ding, starting on John Cagni cagni@marinelink.com631-472-2715 +1 page 42 entitled ‘NASA Welding Technologies: Could Revolutionize Workboat Fabrication’ which discusses how solid-state Frank Covella covella@marinelink.comwelding processes being developed for NASA manufacturing programs could signi? cantly reduce workboat fabrication costs. +1 561 732 1659The author began his career at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in June, 1986, and he brought the friction stir welding Mitch Engel engel@marinelink.com +1 561 732 0312(FSW) process to the NASA agency in 1995/1996 time frame when he secured a 14 ton Kearney and Trecker Horizontal boring Mike Kozlowski kozlowski@marinelink.com +1 561 733 2477 mill and converted it to NASA’s ? rst FSW system. He completed his ? rst FSW welds November 1996. He continued FSW Jean Vertucci vertucci@marinelink.comdevelopment as well as ultrasonic stir weld (USW) and thermal stir weld (TSW) since 1996 and has authored 13 U.S. patents in +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210solid state welding technology. International SalesScandinavia & Germany Roland Persson roland@orn.nuOrn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 Ystad, Sweden t: +46 411-184 00 f: +46 411 105 31United Kingdom Paul Barrett ieaco@aol.comHallmark House, 25 Downham Road, Ramsden Health, Essex CM11 1PU UK t: +44 1268 711560 m: +44 7778 357722 f: +44 1268 711567Classi? ed Sales +1 212 477 6700Gregory R. TrauthweinFounder: John J. O’Malley 1905 - 1980 Editor & Associate PublisherCharles P. 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