The roll-on/roll-off maritime prepositioning ship 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo was among the ships participating in Baltic Operations 2004, a multinational military exercise off the port of Gdynia in Poland.
The U.S.-flagged heavy-lift ship Industrial Challenger has earned an impressive record as a national security asset during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
Interocean Ugland Management (IUM) will assume operation of five U.S.-flagged car carriers currently operated by Pacific Gulf Marine. American Maritime Officers will continue to man the ships in all licensed positions.
American Maritime Officers will man 11 more large medium-speed roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) ships under two new Military Sealift Command (MSC) charter awards.
The USNS Pomeroy recently completed a military cargo download from Kuwait to Belgium as part of Military Sealift Command's ongoing mission for Iraqi Freedom II.
An International Labor Organization (ILO) convention governing the creation of a new generation of Seafarers' Identity Documents (SIDs) will take effect in February 2005. However, the U.S. has not yet ratified the convention, so its impact on American mariners is not yet known.
Three ships operated under American Maritime Officers contract and Military Sealift Command charter recently helped the U.S. Marine Corps test a new amphibious assault vehicle off Newport News, Va.
