Featured MarEx Print Article: Who Says Cleaner Vessels Always Mean Higher Costs?

John D. McCown, CEO of Trailer Bridge, Inc., a U.S.-flag container shipping company asks the tough questions and weighs in on fuel quality standards and the Trailer Bridge Model for shortsea shipping. Taken from our December print edition.

McCown says, “The new standards are nothing short of cataclysmic changes that will play to the inherent advantages of smaller-engine U.S.-flag vessels. This is because vessels with less than 4,000 horsepower typically have high-speed engines that only use a cleaner distillate fuel that already meets all of the IMO’s fuel quality standards. And the same elements that drive cost-efficiency also produce enormous environmental benefits. These smaller vessels are truly the green workhorses of the Jones Act fleet.” Tune in as McCown shows one way to get the job done.

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