The Internal Revenue Service Jan. 13 granted tax-exempt status to the American Maritime Officers Membership Assistance Program.
President Bush in January nominated David Sanborn as head of the Maritime Administration in the Department of Transportation.
Maritrans Inc. has established memorial funds in honor of each of the three Maritrans crewmen who recently lost their lives at sea aboard the tug Valour.
Military Sealift Command Jan. 17 purchased the maritime prepositioning ships MV PFC Dewayne T. Williams, MV 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez and MV 1st Lt. Jack Lummus.
A major U.S.-flag shipping executive in January called for additional improvements to the Maritime Security Program.
The sinking of the ocean-going tug Valour in the early hours of Jan. 18 claimed the lives of two members of American Maritime Officers--Chief Engineer Richard Smoot, 50, and Chief Mate Fred Brenner, 53--and one member of the Seafarers International Union--AB/Tankerman Ron Emory.
