b'26American Journal ofTransportation ajot.com(REVITALIZEcontinued from page 22)will be the next stage of the shipping industry. Con-tainerizationisnowintoitsseventhdecadeand is a mature industry and other sectors of the busi-ness, such as tankers and bulk carriers are similarly placed. So, the question is whats next?ForBeandCOREPOWERtheanswerto whats next is the LIBERTY programa mari-time civil nuclear program. And as Be explained, WenamedittheLIBERTYprogram.Not because its sycophantically trying to position itself inside politics or anything like that, but on the basis that there is a fundamental difference within free-dom and liberty, where freedom is your right to do what you want, but liberty is that right coupled with the obligation to make sure that you consider the effect of your actions on others.COREPOWERhastakenaverypragmatic and measured approach to the LIBERTY program. Thisisnotjustaboutthetechnology,itsabout how we earn the publics trust to operate and create the conditions for that technology to function inside acompleteprogrambuiltonasolidqualityand safety culture, Be said at a February presentationArtist rendering of a 22,000 TEU nuclear-powered containershipinHouston. Thisholisticapproachtacklesevery-thing from construction and deployment to retire- supply chains. major challenges that will open the door to nuclear ment including the social and shipping marketplaceIn most of the preceding half century such anpowered ships, The way we see it is that the global dictates. According to Be the program will comeambitious program with its obstacles would seemshipping industry has got two big challengesone in three phases, the first phase of this program isto be insurmountable. For starters, the only nuclearof them is this international push to decarbonize, technology development, product development, andships currently being built are naval. Secondly, upwhich, its not going to go away, despite of the vola-bringing it to market through licensing. until very recently, what incentive was there for atility in politics. shipowner to switch away from the existing powerAndtheotherchallengefacingtheshipping C onverGenCe ando PPortunity plants? Andfinally,whenitcomestobuildingaindustry and to the supply chain itself is velocity. As At its core the LIBERTY initiative is a mari- largemerchantshipintheU.S.,whereandhowBe says of the liner ships plying the worlds main timecivilprogramdesignedtobuildlargeU.S.could it be done?trade routes, The other one is that the global fleet flagged nuclear-powered merchant ships along withHowever,thereisaconvergenceoftechno- is sailing at the lowest speed [slow speeding] that it floatingnuclear-powerplants.Thisentailsabid- logical shifts in the shipping industry and politicalhas sailed since we introduced the diesel engine in ingbythecomplexregulatoryapprovals,techni- trends that have opened an opportunity for which a1911.With slow speeding the larger container-cal requirements and personnel demands that comeU.S. flagged nuclear powered merchant ship is theships barely hit 20 knots while tankers, and bulk car-with a U.S. flag program. And all this must worklogical solution. riers move even slower. Thats a massive, massive within the commercial world of shipping and globalBe sees that the shipping industry is facing two(REVITALIZEcontinued on page 28)A Leading Ocean Shipping& Logistics CompanyLiberty Global Logistics LLC 516-488-8800LibertyGL.com 1979 Marcus Avenue Suite #200, Lake Success, NY 11042'