The first emergency flights of infant formula under the U.S. government’s new Operation Fly Formula will transport formula made by Nestle S.A. from Zurich to Plainfield, Indiana, the White House said Thursday.
The Defense Department is combing through its list of approved commercial airline contractors to identify the best aircraft to fulfill the transport request from the Department of Agriculture.
A series of Operation Fly Formula flights will transport the equivalent of up to 1.5 million...
The U.S. Department of the Interior will release its proposal for offshore oil and gas lease sales for the next five years by the end of June, Interior Secretary Deb…
May 11 (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Wednesday said it would scrap three planned sales of offshore oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. In a statement, the Department…
https://gcaptain.com/biden-administration-scraps-plans-for-three-offshore-oil-and-gas-lease-sales/
FY 2022 Appropriations Act raises Port Infrastructure Development Program Funding to more than $684 Million, the highest total ever. U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced an additional…
https://gcaptain.com/marad-makes-additional-234-million-available-for-port-projects/
Offshore wind developer Ørsted and North America’s Building and Trade Unions (NABTU) have agreed to a “historic” national project labor agreement (PLA) for offshore wind projects along the Atlantic Coast….
https://gcaptain.com/orsted-nabtu-sign-offshore-wind-project-labor-agreement/
The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish two separate Calls for Information and Nominations for possible offshore wind leasing…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-advances-offshore-wind-energy-leasing-on-atlantic-and-pacific-coasts/
In December, the Biden administration challenged trucking companies to step up their driver training efforts and create a registered apprenticeship program with the U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The administration considered its 90-Day Trucking Apprenticeship Challenge, which was aimed at recruiting and retaining more drivers, a success. It resulted in 102 new apprenticeship programs, beating the administration’s goal of 90 programs in 90...
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the sale of 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the first since President Biden announced plans for the…
https://gcaptain.com/first-sale-historic-strategic-petroleum-reserve-release/
By David Shepardson (Reuters) President Joe Biden will announce on Thursday the United States will ban Russian-affiliated ships from American ports, the latest step to pressure Russia over its invasion…
https://gcaptain.com/biden-bans-russian-ships-from-us-ports/
By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy’s new 30-year shipbuilding plan puts off a decision about whether to stick with the Trump administration’s target for a 355-vessel fleet until at…