The officers and crewmembers of the USNS Red Cloud and USNS Sisler helped fight a fire aboard the USNS Shughart over a 24-hour period in March while the large medium-speed roll-on/roll-off vessels were moored in Ash Shuaybah, Kuwait.
Corporate hog farmers in March agreed to challenge the Jones Act once again. The revived threat emerged in a resolution approved by the National Pork Producers Council during the National Pork Industry Forum in Atlanta.
George McCartney, West Coast vice president of the Seafarers International Union Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District for 17 years, died March 19. He was 72.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta recently outlined a comprehensive federal review of national maritime policies and emphasized the Bush administration's commitment to the laws and programs that support the American maritime industry.
This is the second of two reports on policy positions adopted by the Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO during meetings of the department's executive board March 4-5 in Hollywood, Fla.
This is the second in a series on The RRF in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Lessons Learned, a study report prepared for the Maritime Administration on the performance of MARAD's Ready Reserve Force sealift fleet in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. The report was prepared by I.M. Systems Group Inc. and Marine Design and Operations Inc., which determined, among other things, how RRF improvements made by MARAD after Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 had influenced RRF activation and service during the latest crisis.
The partnership between the maritime industry and the federal government must be maintained as the U.S. shipping industry takes on increasingly important roles in the economy, national security and the war on terrorism, said Treasury Secretary John Snow during a speech before the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO, March 5 in Hollywood, Fla.
