The induction of the car carrier Freedom into the U.S.-flag fleet Oct. 30 focused the attention of the maritime industry, U.S. military, federal government and the Port of Baltimore upon the value of the U.S. merchant fleet to the nation's economy and security.
Seagoing unions have gone on record against House legislation that would undermine the Jones Act.
American Maritime Officers applicant James Kellberg scored higher than 90 percent on all five exam modules for the original third assistant engineer steam license after completing STCW training and studying for the exam at the Raymond T. McKay Simulation, Training, Assessment & Research Center in Dania Beach, Fla.
The prospect of shipping liquefied natural gas from Alaska to the U.S. West Coast aboard foreign ships manned with foreign crews has been explored by an unidentified company working with the U.S. Customs Service, and is now being considered by the U.S. energy industry, according to a report published in the October edition of Petroleum News.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski Oct. 22 reaffirmed her support of U.S. merchant mariners and the American maritime industries.
Former U.S. Rep. Jimmy Quillen (R-TN), an influential 34-year House veteran and longtime advocate of the U.S. merchant marine in all trades, died in a Tennessee hospital Nov. 2. He was 87.
The late Paul Hall, president of the Seafarers International Union of North America and the founding force behind the union now known as American Maritime Officers, was inducted to the U.S. Department of Labor's Labor Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Washington Oct. 1
No new funding for shipbuilding loan guarantees under the Title XI program was included in appropriations legislation that will fund several other key U.S. maritime programs for the next fiscal year, including the Maritime Security Program (MSP).
