The AMO Vacation Plan provides one-day "walk-in" service for benefit application and payment at AMO locations in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Toledo, Oh. The option is available to all AMO members eligible for benefits from the AMO Vacation Plan.
The trailership Westward Venture June 10 received a safety achievement award from The Chamber of Shipping of America for the successful efforts of the crew in battling a shipboard fire last Christmas while the ship was transporting military cargo.
The U.S. Coast Guard will enforce U.S.-flagged merchant ship compliance with new security requirements "strictly and consistently."
U.S.-flagged merchant ship operators in June urged that maritime services be excluded from the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement.
The U.S.-flagged roll-on/roll-off ship Cape Island recently became the first sealift ship to call at Olympia in Washington State since 1987.
Military Sealift Command June 4 awarded the operating charter for seven oceanographic survey vessels to Horizon Lines LLC, a non-AMO operating company.
The House of Representatives June 17 approved a labor-backed tonnage tax for U.S.-flagged merchant ships.
