The Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has called for quick Congressional consideration of H.R. 3262, the Maritime Cost Parity Act.
The AFL-CIO's Maritime Trades Department in February urged Congress and the administration to begin considering ways to "extend and expand" the Maritime Security Program.
Maritime Administrator William Schubert and Defense Department officials have held preliminary talks that could lead to a U.S. merchant marine manpower reserve for strategic sealift and other defense missions, Schubert said Feb. 20.
Representatives of the maritime industry, shipyards and maritime labor have united to fight for funding of the Title XI shipbuilding loan guarantee program in the fiscal year 2003 budget.
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Virgo, manned in licensed positions by American Maritime Officers, Feb. 14 rescued 11 Indonesian seafarers whose vessel sank off the coast of Indonesia.
