JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 • FOGHORN 37 MEMBERNEWS WE LIVE AND BREATHE pAssENgER VEssELs, THAT’s THE KEY TO OUR sUCCEss Anders Rundberg, CEO of Carus We care about your customers Carus offers innovative solutions for the global passenger vessel industry, giving your customers a better experience before, during and after their journey. The Carus solution incorporates ticketing, reservations, check-in, port automation, on-board and relationship management. www.carus.com Yank Marine Celebrates Its New Marine Travelift PVA Associate Member Yank Marine Inc. publicly unveiled its new marine travelift at its shipyard in Dorchester, New Jersey, on December 11, 2017.   It represents the most essential part of the company’s Shipyard Revitalization Project on the Maurice River in the southern part of the state. At 820 metric tons, the equipment is the second largest mobile marine travelift in the United States.  It was acquired with significant financial h e l p f ro m t h e U . S . M a r i t i m e Administration’s Small Shipyard Grant Program, as well as grants and loans for Superstorm Sandy relief provided by the State of New Jersey and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  New PVA Associate Member Marine Travelift of Sturgeon Bay, WI, manufactured the device.  PVA vessel member Ben Franklin Yachts hosted the 100-plus attendees at the Dorchester site celebration.  Yank Marine has recently built ferry vessels for PVA vessel member New York Waterway, and several individuals from that company attended the event. Also in attendance were former U.S. Maritime Administrator David Matsuda and PVA Legislative Director Ed Welch. The installation of the new marine travelift was the culmination of a 12-year effort by John and Bette Jean Yank. They purchased the Dorchester yard in 2005, attracted in part by the unobstructed and deepwater access to Delaware Bay. In planning their upgrading of the facility, they visited every small shipyard from Maine to Florida and west to Mobile, Alabama, and Pascagoula, Mississippi. They contended with the financial havoc unleashed by the Great Recession and with physical damage inflicted to the Dorchester site and to their original Tuckahoe, NJ, shipyard by Superstorm Sandy. They persevered with the phi- losophy that they needed to “go big or go home.” n