The House Armed Services Committee's Oversight Panel on Merchant Marine April 25 approved $50 million for Title XI shipbuilding loan guarantees in fiscal 2003.
The prospects of new U.S.-flag tanker and barge cargoes and additional seagoing jobs dimmed April 18 when the Senate sided with environmentalists and blocked an energy bill amendment that would have opened Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to limited oil exploration.
Congressman Gene Taylor has earned the Herbert H. Bateman Award from the American Shipbuilding Association (ASA) for outstanding leadership in the promotion of a strong U.S. shipbuilding industrial base.
American Maritime Officers provides the licensed officers aboard the U.S. Naval Ship Mary Sears, a new oceanographic vessel operated by Dyn Marine Services Inc. for Military Sealift Command
Sea Star Line will buy Navieras de Puerto Rico, one of its rivals in the busy intermodal U.S.-Puerto Rico trade.
Here are excerpts from "Just One More Trip," the article written by retiring AMO member William Mahoney for the Winter 2001-2002 issue of Mariner, the alumni magazine of Maine Maritime Academy.
Carnival Cruise Line's parent company April 19 was fined $18 million, placed on five years' probation and ordered to apologize after pleading guilty to felony charges that the foreign-flagged line submitted falsified oil waste discharge records to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Four environmental interest groups April 24 filed suit against four foreign-flagged cruise lines for polluting U.S. waters off the California coast.
