Cover Story: Business improved in 2022 as passenger vessel operators shook off their Covid hangovers. • Congress rewarded the inland waterways with several legislative victories last year. • More battery-power options are being developed • The use of onboard wireless data systems is growing. • Gladding-Hearn to refit 34-year-old, 700-passenger ferry for Bermuda • Austal USA christens its 17th littoral combat ship • Burger Boat delivers 92'x33' passenger-vehicle ferry to Michigan • Snow & Company begins construction on an aluminum hybrid research vessel for DOE • Robert Allan Ltd. announces the delivery of the 50th tug in its Boğaçay tug series...and more!