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April 13, 2021The Leatherman Terminal, which has been 20 years in the making, is a generational milestone for SC Ports and for South Carolina. The terminal sits along the Cooper River in North Charleston, near Charleston Harbor. Its cranes can be...
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April 12, 2021Brian Mossman says he has read “Moby Dick” nearly 200 times. The 61-year-old captain of the container ship Maersk Sentosa says he revisits the Melville classic nearly every voyage, because each time reveals something new about the people who...
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April 6, 2021Maersk North America has announced the launch of a new service linking ports in Vietnam and China with the United States East Coast via the Panama Canal. “Importers are looking for more U.S. East Coast gateways in their Asia/North...
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March 31, 2021Commissioner Daniel B. Maffei has been designated as the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. The designation was made by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on March 29, 2021. Chairman Maffei is a sitting member of the FMC and...
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March 16, 2021Dear Mr. President: During the course of the Presidential campaign and most recently through the release of your January 25, 2021 Buy America Executive Order, you have expressed strong support for the United States-flag maritime industry and for the...
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February 9, 2021Statement of C. James Patti, President, Maritime Institute for Research and Industrial Development on Behalf of USA Maritime to The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on The State Of The U.S....
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January 26, 2021The USA Maritime Coalition congratulates Lucinda Lessley on her appointment to the position of Deputy Maritime Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation. USA Maritime represents shipping companies operating U.S.-flag vessels in our nation’s foreign trades, the maritime labor organizations representing...
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January 25, 2021WASHINGTON – The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the voice of the nation’s domestic maritime industry, today applauds the new Executive Order to be signed by President Biden on January 25, 2021, “Strengthening ‘Buy American’ Provisions, Ensuring [the] Future of...
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January 21, 2021On behalf of the undersigned United States-flag shipping companies, American maritime labor organizations and related maritime associations belonging to the USA Maritime Coalition, we are writing to convey our support for the nomination of Peter Buttigieg to be Secretary...
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