The National Transportation Safety Board released its 2019-2020 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements during an event held at the National Press Club on Monday.
First issued in 1990, the NTSB Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements is the agency’s primary advocacy tool to help save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce property damage resulting from transportation accidents.
The 10 items on the NTSB’s 2019 – 2020 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety...
The Office of Naval Research’s 132’ trimaran Sea Hunter became the first ship to successfully autonomously navigate from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and back according to ONR’s program contractor.
The Sea Hunter was designed and build by Leidos, the Reston, Va., science and technology company that started as defense contractor SAIC in the 1960s. Conceived by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as an unmanned vessel for minesweeping and anti-submarine operations, the...
Six Coast Guard cutters seized over 17 tons of cocaine worth an estimated $466 million during operations in Eastern Pacific international waters in recent months, Coast Guard officials said as the haul was offloaded Tuesday at Port Everglades, Fla.
The crew of the 270’ medium endurance cutter Forward, homeported in Portsmouth, Va., were the interception champs with eight cases capturing 14,207 pounds, and did the honors of delivering the combined seizures to port. The drug shipments were taken...
Coast Guard Adm. Charles W. Ray, vice commandant, posted a letter updating the post-shutdown situation and the pay schedule for the civilian and active duty and reserve workforce.
Also, Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz released an email thanking the men and women of the Coast Guard for their hard work and dedication during the lapse in appropriations. Schultz wrote that “we enthusiastically welcome back our greatly missed furloughed civilian employees, allowing us to reconstitute our total workforce...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-posts-shutdown-update/
The National Maritime Center (NMC) reopened on Monday and is implementing measures to address increased levels of application inventory.
· Merchant Mariner Credentials (MMC) and Medical Certifications (national endorsements only) set to expire in December 2018, January 2019, or February 2019 remain valid until May 31, 2019. (See Update 3 – Mitigation Efforts Due to Lapse in Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations and Partial Government Shutdown.)
· Additional Information (AI) letters, Qualified Assessor...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/national-maritime-center-reopens/
Coast Guard funding has lapsed due to the partial federal government shutdown, but the service is required to continue some operations and activities.
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-inspections-continue-during-shutdown/
The triple disasters of the 2017 hurricane season affected 45 U.S. ports, wreaking havoc but also leaving valuable lessons in how to better prepare for – and recover from – future storms, according to a report by federal maritime transportation experts.
“Over the course of the 2017 hurricane season, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria affected the operating status of at least 45 ports throughout the lower continental United States and U.S. Caribbean territories,” the report states. “The scale and...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/report-recommends-more-disaster-resilience-for-u-s-ports/
The Coast Guard posted a message and video on Twitter Tuesday from Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz on the “unacceptable” affect that the lapse in appropriations has had on Coast Guard personnel.
Schultz’s Twitter post said: “Your Coast Guard leadership team and the American people stand in awe of your continued dedication to duty, resilience, and that of your families. I find it unacceptable that @USCG members must rely on food pantries and donations to get through day-to-day life.”
The post Coast...
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U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz says it is “unacceptable” that Coast Guard servicemembers must rely on food pantries and donations amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, now in its 32nd day. On Friday, Coast Guard members and employees will miss their second paycheck of the...
The Coast Guard’s medium icebreaker Healy is undergoing a maintenance overhaul at Vigor Industrial, Seattle, after arriving at the Harbor Island shipyard in early January.
The $7.3 million contract includes sea valve renewal and overhaul, bow thruster modifications, ballast tank and underwater hull paint preservation, and various machinery overhauls.
The 420’x82’x29’ Healy will be at the yard, just across Seattle harbor from the icebreaker’s usual berth, through June 2019.
The ship is one of just...
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