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Navy Official Calls for a Fleet of Dual-Use Marine Highway Ships

The Journal of Commerce Online - News Story
Bob Edmonson
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Proposal a low-cost alternative to replacing Ready Reserve Force -- A fleet of commercial medium-sized, medium-speed ships could fill the demand for vessels for marine highways operations, and provide the Navy with sealift capacity in time of war, a senior logistics executive said in Boston on Tuesday. -- Jonathan Kaskin, director of the Navy’s strategic mobility and logistics division, told members of the Transportation Research Board that a ship suitable for commercial service and emergency sealift capacity was the low-cost alternative to replace aging ships in the Ready Reserve Force.
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Welcome!

Intermodal Marine Lines, LLC (IML) is a Florida corporation focused on developing and operating intermodal marine highways in North America. Intermodal Marine lines, LLC (IML) is a Section 2, U.S. owned and controlled Jones Act qualified operating company. IML has extensive Marine Highways expertise and knowledge. IML will also draw upon the expertise of the MTLA Marine Highways Development Team of Maritime Transport & Logistics Advisors, LLC (MTLA) for consulting services and interim management as well as Crowley® Maritime Corporation's technical services group.

IML's business plan provides flexibility to design, build and operate IML vessels as well as operate Jones act vessels for owners and/or leasing companies interested in placing or building Jones Act U.S. Flag vessels in Marine Highways routes. Through collaborative design effort with one of the premier naval architecture firms in the world, Intermodal Marine Lines, LLC ("IML") has developed a unique ship design for a revolutionary high-capacity, high-speed cargo vessel. Our ship is a Dual Use vessel: is ideal for commercial use by some of the leading freight carriers and it can easily accommodate many U.S. Navy national defense features. Utilizing proven European technology, the vessel is environmentally friendly, high-tech, multi-modal, high capacity, roll-on, roll-off vessel design. This vessel introduces a new freight service concept to provide domestic "intermodal" service between U.S. ports that can help solve a looming U.S. transportation crisis.

IML's new vessel design has the ability to provide U.S. Navy replacement RRF capacity for national and international emergencies. Based on its innate understanding of the maritime transportation industry, IML has answered a nearly impossible challenge: successfully creating a commercially viable vessel that can accommodate U.S. Navy National Defense Features to qualify for inclusion in the RRF. Our unique design and concept answers both U.S. DOT and U.S. DOD initiatives and most importantly is - commercially viable!

IML's operating center is located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where executive and administrative personnel will be based. Under an MOU signed with Crowley Maritime Corporation's technical services group, once feasible routes are established and vessel designs are completed - IML and Crowley Maritime Corporation's technical services group will proceed with plans to utilize the capability of Crowley's operational, ship management, technical support services, construction supervision and all other services needed to operate marine highways vessels.

Mark Yonge is the Managing Member of IML. He served on the steering committee that assisted MARAD in forming the Marine Highways Cooperative, formally known as SCOOP. He has served as Chairman and Secretary of the cooperative and presently serves as Vice-Chairman. Mr. Yonge has been a proactive participant in the Marine Highways -Short Sea Transport initiative since its inception. His consulting group - Maritime Transport & Logistics Advisors, LLC (Maritime Advisors) has been called upon to develop marine highway planning, research and presentations for ports, clients, and conferences, as well as ship design consultation with the NSRP Short Sea Shipping panel, ship design agents, vessel operators and others. Both he and other members from MTLA have testified before congressional committees and provided assistance to Congressional staff during the process that led up to the 2007 signing of the ''Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007''.That Act provided for new direction and transportation policy to include Marine Highways in US DOT planning as well as a MARAD rulemaking.

The MTLA Marine Highways Development Team, a highly qualified team will provide IML with outstanding expertise in Marine Highways; Intermodal/multimodal transportation/logistics; Ship building; modeling, and ship operating hands on experience as well as interim management.

The MTLA core team is composed of the following members:

Richard Calcote - CPA, CFO, Corporate Controller - Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and financial planning

Bill Deaver - former President & COO of Totem Ocean Trailer Express

Dr. Lawrence Henesey, Ph.D - developer of tools and methods for improving performance in intermodal Short Sea Shipping transportation systems

Ron McAlear - former CEO of Atlantic Marine Holding Company LLC and President of Atlantic Marine Alabama LLC

Jim Pugh -former Director of Marine Highways & Passenger Services, MARAD

Harvey Walpert - former Senior Advisor for Military Affairs, Bender Shipbuilding

Mark Yonge, Managing Member of MTLA - former U.S. Flag vessel owner/operator

Contact information for IML is:

Intermodal Marine Lines, LLC
1819 S.E. 17th Street, Suite 1503
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

Phone: (954) 889-6852
Fax: (954) 761-1718
mark.yonge@intermodalmarine.com

- News -
Oct 5, 2011 - IML selected to present at the 2011 Early Stage Conference in Orlando. Florida Venture Forum
will host its Fourth Annual Early Stage Venture Capital Conference at the Reunion Resort in Orlando, Florida. Intermodal Marine Lines has been seletected as a 'finalist' from one of many outstanding private companies to be a presenter at the Conference. Florida Venture Forum is Florida's premier organization focused on assisting entrepreneurs of emerging companies as they develop their businesses and raise capital.

July 26-27, 2011 - IML invited to speak and participate in the 1st U.S.-Europe Marine Highways Workshop - . -- The George Mason University (GMU) Consortium on Marine Highways has invited Mark Yonge, Managing Member of IMM to speak in the operator panel at the Workshop. The workshop is organized as part of the George Mason University Consortium research project. Marine highways provide freight logisticians an added intermodal option.

July 13th, 2011 - Navy Official Calls for a Fleet of Dual-Use Marine Highway Ships - The JOC Online
Bob Edmonson

Proposal a low-cost alternative to replacing Ready Reserve Force -- A fleet of commercial medium-sized, medium-speed ships could fill the demand for vessels for marine highways operations, and provide the Navy with sealift capacity in time of war, a senior logistics executive said in Boston on Tuesday.

June 2011 - Mark Yonge interviews at 3PL Summit.
Topic: The Importance of Marine Highways to Cargo Transportation.

April 7, 2011 - IML Signs MOU with the South Jersey Port Corporation. -- Intermodal Marine Lines has entered into an MOU with the South Jersey Port Corporation. The MOU provides for the implementation of a domestic roll on - roll off intermodal container / trailer marine highway transportation service operating off the U.S. Atlantic Coast. The exclusive agreement will be for a period of up to 3 years dating from the execution of this MOU and is intended to provide IML with sufficient time to finalize its financing and shipyard plans.

Sept 30 2010 - A New Focus on Natural Gas-Powered Vessel -- The use of natural gas in the form of LNG (liquefied natural gas) as a fuel for vessels in the United States is receiving focus from both the natural gas and maritime industries.

Sept. 28 2010 - East Coast Ports May Not Need to Dig Deeper -- East Coast container ports have plenty of capacity to handle the bigger ships that will be coming through the Panama Canal after it completes a third set of locks in 2014 and may not have to deepen their harbors as much as they planned.

Sept 24, 2010 - US Railroads Haul more containers -- The top U.S.-owned freight railroads never before hauled as many intermodal containers as they did in the week ending Sept. 18, said the Association of American Railroads. The AAR also said overall container and trailer hauls hit their strongest level of 2010 as intermodal loadings approach their autumn peak season. The activity follows a week that included the Labor Day holiday and could reflect some rebound after the shortened week, but it is also consistent with a rising volume trend for intermodal in recent months that so far shows no sign of ebbing.

Sept 23, 2010 - Transportation Performance Index_Press Release -- WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today released the first-ever nationwide and stateby-state “Transportation Performance Indexes” which show a significant decline over the last five years in how America’s transportation infrastructure is serving the needs of domestic commerce, international trade and the overall U.S. economy. The annual index is the first of its kind designed to look over time at how U.S. transportation infrastructure is serving the needs of the U.S. economy and business community.

Sept 21, 2010 - WTO Raises Trade Growth for 2010 -- Following faster than expected recovery in global trade flows so far in 2010, World Trade Organisation economists have revised their projection for world trade growth in 2010 upwards to 13.5%. The WTO's March forecast was a 10% expansion in trade volumes.

Sept 2010 - Transportation Freight Index -- The Transportation Performance Index is the fi rst in the series that drives home the point that infrastructure performance matters to the economy and shapes an environment for action to improve.

July 30, 2009 - NASSCO AMH Study - A Shipbuilder’s Assessment of America’s Marine Highways -- This report provides a shipbuilder’s assessment of America’s Marine Highways (AMH), based on the body of knowledge as represented in current literature related to AMH, dialogue and debate at AMH conferences, insights from potential operators, and insights as a key stakeholder with relevant experience.

April 2009 - Making Transportation Sustainable-TRB Report -- This report examines the key differences and determinants of travel behavior in Germany and the United States. Americans travel by car twice as much per year as Germans and use transit only a sixth as much. Differences in car reliance between the United States and Germany are not solely due to income or residential density. Germans in the highest income quartile make a lower share of their trips by car than Americans in the lowest income quartile. And Germans living in low density areas travel by car about as much as Americans living at population densities five times higher.

Feb 26, 2009 - NSTIF_Commission_Final_Report -- “Paying Our Way: A New Framework for Transportation Finance.” Over the last two years the Commission has worked to respond to Congress’s charge in Section 11142 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users to assess future federal highway and transit investment needs, evaluate the future of the federal Highway Trust Fund, and explore alternative funding and financing mechanisms for surface transportation.

December 2008 - A Survey of Short Sea shipping and its prospects in the USA -- The continuing growth of international container trade has created capacity problems at major US ports, and the truck-based freight transportation has caused a deterioration of traffic congestion on important US transportation corridors. Using inland and coastal waterways, short sea shipping (SSS) can provide an improvement to these problems.

Oct 24, 2008 - How to fund the repair of U.S. Highways -- In spite of the influx of an additional $8 billion into the U.S. Highway Trust Fund, there still is an infrastructure funding gap in the United States. Privatization is one possible answer for closing this gap.

Apr. 1-2, 2009 - Mark Yonge, Managing Member, invited to speak at The Journal of Commerce’s 6th Annual North America's Marine Highways Conference, Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel, Jacksonville Fl. ... Also, Roundtable #2: The Green Highway – John Jamian, Moderator, Roundtable #6: Operations: Point to Point – Mark Yonge, Panelist.

Feb. 18, 2009 - Richard Biter, Affiliate Member, Mark Yonge, Managing Member, will make presentation on Short Sea Shipping – Past, Present & Future to the Annual Joint Navy League/Port Manatee Propeller Club meeting in Sarasota, FL. View the presentation here

June 20, 2008 - Mark Yonge, Managing Member, invited to speak at the 33rd Annual TRB Summer Ports, Waterways, Freight, and International Trade Conference, Baltimore, MD. View presentation here.

June 18, 2008 - View the webcast of the Congressional Roundtable on Short Sea Transport this date. Mark Yonge, Managing Member and Affiliate Paul Bea, Chairman of the Coastwise Coalition, panelists.

June 18, 2008 - Dr. Lawrence Henesey, Affiliate Member, Business Development Manager R&D, TTS Port Equipment AB, invited to speak at TOC Europe 2008, Amsterdam, on developments in automated horizontal container transport.

May 3, 2008 - Affiliate H. Clayton Cook invited speaker at the Maritime Law Association of the United States, 2008 Annual Meeting, Ad Hoc Committee on Short Sea Shipping, "Short Sea Shipping for the Maritime Lawyer -- MARAD's Capital Construction Fund Program"

April 15th & 16th, 2008 - Mark Yonge. Managing Member, and Affliates Paul Bea, Raymond Barberesi & Rick Armstrong, invited to speak at the North America’s Marine Highways (NAMH) Conference 2008

January 16, 2008< - Mark Yonge, Managing Member invited to speak at CCDoTT’s IMPACT 2008 - 'Innovative Maritime Partnerships Advancing Cargo Transport'

December 5-6, 2007 - Mark Yonge, Managing Member & Affiliate H. Clayton Cook invited to speak at MarineLog Intelligent Shipbuilding Conference, Washington, D.C.

November 7, 2007 - Mark Yonge. Managing Member & Affiliate H. Clayton Cook invited to speak at MarineLog Ferries 2007 Conference in Delray Beach, FL

March 15, 2007 - H. Clayton Cook, Affiliate, invited to testify on the "Maritime Administration's Title XI Loan Guarantee Program" at U.S. Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces of the House Armed Services Committee Committee Hearing.