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By David Krapf, Editor
4/16/2013
The Maritime Administration has $9.4 million available in its Small Shipyard Grant Program.
4/15/2013
Obama’s budget would cut Corps budget, impose user fees on the inland waterways industry.
4/11/2013
The $370 million channel deepening
project at the Port of Los Angeles has been completed.
4/11/2013
Waterways Council comes out in support of waterways bills introduced by Illinois senators.
4/11/2013
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the 2011 liftboat accident in the Gulf of Mexico was the failure of the vessel owner and charterer to plan and prepare for a rapidly developing hurricane.
4/9/2013
The Navy christened and launched its newest oceanographic survey ship, the USNS Maury (T-AGS 66), at VT Halter Marine on March 27.
4/9/2013
Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Alert, a 210-foot cutter homeported in Astoria, Ore., offloaded more than 3.3 tons of marijuana in San Diego on March 31 after the cutter crew recovered the narcotics from the water.
4/5/2013
One man is missing after an accident at BAE Systems shipyard in Mobile, Ala.
4/4/2013
The Coast Guard is soliciting comments on its merchant mariner medical evaluation program.
4/4/2013
The EPA has issued a final vessel general permit regulating discharges from commercial vessels, including ballast water, to protect the nation’s waters from ship-borne pollutants and reduce invasive species in U.S.
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Onboard fire at sea hits close to home
News of an “uncontrolled engine room fire” on any
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neighbor’s command, I really pay attention.
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Pirates in business suits
It’s time for governments to go after those who pay ransoms to pirates.
Author: Capt. Max Hardberger
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