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Essential, invisible: Covid has 200,000 merchant sailors stuck at sea

Brian 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...

Maersk Adds U.S. East Coast Weekly Service

Maersk 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...

Daniel B. Maffei Designated as the Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission

Commissioner 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...

Seafaring Unions Call for Maritime Jobs Program

Dear 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...

USA Maritime Testimony to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation: Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Statement 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....

USA MARITIME STATEMENT ON THE APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MARITIME ADMINISTRATOR LUCINDA LESSLEY

The 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...

American Maritime Leaders Applaud Biden Administration for Prioritizing Support of the Jones Act in “Buy American” Executive Order

WASHINGTON – ​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...

USA Maritime Coalition endorses Peter Buttigieg for Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.

On 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...

USA MARITIME URGES GREATER VACCINE PRIORITY FOR U.S. MARINERS

The USA Maritime Coalition is urging that American mariners working aboard Maritime Security Program vessels as well as other U.S.-flag vessels in the foreign trades receive immediate access to the COVID-19 vaccine.  As noted by the Coalition of U.S.-flag...

2020 AOTOS Award Presented to the US Maritime Industry