The Midnight Sun is operated in the Jones Act trades between Washington State and Alaska for Totem Ocean Trailer Express by Interocean American Shipping Corp. and manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers.
The Ready Reserve Force vessels Cape Island and Cape Intrepid are managed and operated for the Maritime Administration by Crowley Liner Services and manned in all licensed positions by American Maritime Officers.
The Transportation Security Administration Jan. 25 published the final rulemaking on the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC). Within 20 months, American mariners will have to have obtained a TWIC for use as security identification, and TWIC access control procedures will be implemented aboard U.S. vessels.
The Coast Guard's revised proposal for the establishment of the "merchant mariner credential"--a consolidated document that could include a mariner's license, merchant mariner document, STCW endorsement and certificate of registry--was published Jan. 25 in the Federal Register.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jan. 29 awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation Transportation and Security Solutions of Rockville, Md., worth $70 million for the initial deployment of the transportation worker identification credential (TWIC).
Fatigue threatens the health and safety of merchant mariners worldwide, according to a study commissioned by the International Transport Workers' Federation, or ITF.
A bill to provide monthly stipends to qualified U.S. merchant marine veterans of World War II has been re-introduced in the House of Representatives.
