American Maritime Officers (AMO) members will soon have additional employment opportunities following Federated Maritime’s successful award of a contract with the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) for charter of the medium-range tanker Allied Atlantic. Federated Crewing...
Read MoreThe following press release was issued by the Lake Carriers’ Association on July 2. Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes increased 4.5 percent from June of last year to 5.1 million tons. Shipments were a near match to the month’s 5-year average. Year-to-date, the iron ore trade ...
Read MoreAmerican maritime Officers members working aboard the SLNC Severn in June included Third Mate Sonja Jaturarat, Second Mate Ben Carroll and Chief Mate Gustavo Martinez. With them is Seafarers International Union AB M. Collins. AMO members working in the Engine Department of the SLNC Severn i...
Read MoreMaine Maritime Academy graduates and cadets onboard ARC Integrity during a recent port call to Bremerhaven, Germany included American Maritime Officers members Captain Andy Perri, Chief Mate Alice Steinquist, First Engineer Eric Lobmeyr Von Hohenleiten and cadets Matthew Gagin and Asa Stoyk...
Read MoreThe following press release was issued by American Maritime Partnership. Navigistics Consulting, a Maritime industry consulting and market analysis firm, examined the real-world effects of the current (150-day) blanket Jones Act waiver – put in place by the Trump Administration –...
Read MoreThe following letter was sent to President Donald Trump on June 30. Dear Mr. President: We appreciate your longstanding support and attention to the challenges facing our domestic shipping industry. We write to respectfully request that the current Jones Act waiver be allowed to expire as s...
Read MoreThe AMO monthly membership meeting originally scheduled for September 9 will now be held on Wednesday, September 2 due to scheduling conflicts. The meeting on September 2 will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time at AMO headquarters in Dania Beach, Fla. in the second-floor auditorium. ...
Read MoreGraeme Holman, director of operations at STAR Center, shows off the engine simulator to cadets from Maine Maritime and Texas A&M Maritime academies. More than 50 cadets from Maine Maritime Academy and Texas A&M University Maritime Academy visited Port Everglades during their summer ...
Read MoreMV Pacific Collector returns to the West Coast from another successful voyage in May before a scheduled shipyard period. American Maritime Officers members aboard the Tote Services vessel included (L-R) Deck Dept: Trevor Cardin, Brandon Swick, Sean Furlanic, Mylan Jarrett and John Stencil....
Read MoreTanker Torm Thunder, here in Singapore, is a chemical product tanker operated by Eco-tanker Crew Management for Fairwater Tanker Management and is enlisted in the Tanker Security Program, providing reliable fuel services for the U.S. military around the world. All licensed officers on the v...
Read MoreThe following is the report of the Credentials Committee for the 2026 AMO Election of National Officers. The report was finalized, as noted, on June 15, and verified signatures of all members of the committee had been received by June 24. AMO NATIONAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS TO NATIONAL EXECUT...
Read MoreGraduated cadets from United States Merchant Marine Academy flooded an are dedicated for joining up with American Maritime Officers after commencement in June. The following press release was issued by American Maritime Partnership on June 24. The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the vo...
Read MoreOne of the components of the tunnel boring machine is loaded onto ARC independence in Belgium. Cargo big or small, the U.S. Merchant Marine delivers it all. And deliveries don’t come much bigger than the gigantic tunnel boring machine ferried across the Atlantic Ocean for the Hudson T...
Read MoreThe following press release was issued by the United States Coast Guard on June 16. The National Maritime Center (NMC) has made substantial progress in reducing the backlog of applications resulting from the 2026 lapse in appropriations. As a result of sustained recovery efforts and increas...
Read MoreThe minutes for the regular monthly American Maritime Officers membership meeting held June 10 have been posted in the member section of the AMO website, which is accessible to active AMO members and applicants. AMO members will need to click on the MEMBER LOGIN tab on the AMO website (LOGI...
Read MoreMembers of American Maritime Officers aboard the Washington in June included Second Mate Julian Martinez-Prado, Chief Mate Alex Black, Third Mates Kenobi Kinch and Steve Ford, and Captain Dan Goodwin. Tanker Washington, seen here traveling to Alaska, is owned and operated by Fairwater Tan...
Read MoreMV Roy P. Benavidez completed a joint task force operation including U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) and the U.S. Army, moving military equipment and cargo in a high-stakes scenario from Puerto Rico to Gulfport, Mississippi and then reloading to deliver to Virginia. As part of TRANS...
Read MoreThe Credentials Committee is contacting members for whom nominations for the 2026 AMO Election of National Officers were submitted. Once all such nominees have responded, the report of the Credentials Committee will be published on the AMO website and distributed via AMO Currents, and will ...
Read MoreAmerican Maritime Officers members working aboard the Jones Act tanker Garden State, here in Port Everglades, Fla. in June, included Third Mate Keegan Byrd, Second Mate Evan Gilchrist, Third Mate Kyle Otte, Chief Mate Jonathan Agliata and Captain Keith Bradley. The Garden State is operated...
Read MoreMV Jean Anne officers and crew celebrated Third Mate James Marren in Honolulu, as he prepares to retire after 21 years of dedicated service with Pasha Hawaii. Marren, the last remaining original crew member aboard the company’s flagship, will complete his final tour on Jean Anne’s 546t...
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