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June 2003
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| AMO fleet grows by four ships |
| New jobs aboard trailership, cableship, chemical carrier, special mission vessel |
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Four more ships are joining the American Maritime Officers fleet in the very near future, expanding the union's job base and providing a range of new opportunities for members and applicants to work in the domestic and international commercial trades and for the federal government.
A new trailership, the MV North Star, was to have been christened June 14 for Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE). The North Star, one of two new trailerships to be manned by AMO, will be operated by Interocean Ugland Management for TOTE in the Jones Act trades between Washington State and Alaska. USCS Chemical Pioneer LLC May 6 purchased the Chemical Pioneer from Dow Chemical. The 688-foot chemical carrier, equipped with 48 independent cargo tanks, will be operated by USCS Chemical Chartering LLC and manned in all licensed positions by AMO. Maersk Line Ltd. was recently awarded the operating charter for the special mission vessel USNS Observation Island. The 564-foot Observation Island had been manned by civil service mariners and its addition to the AMO fleet expands the national job base for American contract civilian merchant mariners. The cable laying ship CS Tyco Decisive was christened May 30 in Baltimore, Md., and set sail from Baltimore Harbor June 1 on her first job. The Decisive, Tyco's fourth Reliance Class newbuild to be manned in all licensed positions by AMO, will operate from Baltimore Harbor along with the CS Tyco Reliance. |
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