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New Trump order eases transition from military to maritime jobs

A Navy officer supervises as a 60-ton M1 Abrams tank is lowered during a delivery at Aquaba, Jordan, in 2014. Marine Corps photo/MSgt. Will Price.

The U.S. Maritime Administration’s Military to Mariner program got a boost from the White House in March when President Trump signed an executive order to help sea-going military veterans transition to life and work in the civilian merchant marine.

Signed March 4, the order would waive government-issued licensing fees and allow military sea experience to count toward merchant mariner credentialing, reforms sought by the maritime industry and veteran’s groups.

Trump said the order achieves two...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/new-trump-order-eases-transition-from-military-to-maritime-jobs/

US MARAD advises on maritime piracy

US Maritime Administration (MARAD) noted that in 2018 there were 18 reports concerning boardings, attempted boardings, attacks, hijackings, and kidnappings in the Sulu and Celebes Seas. In the meantime, MARAD addressed that there were 146 reports on piracy incidents to U.S. flagged operators with vessels transiting or operating in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG).

The recent kidnappings in the Sulu-Celebeses, were linked to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), an, allegedly, violent Islamic separatist group...

https://safety4sea.com/us-marad-advises-on-piracy-attacks/

Trump administration review of national maritime strategy delayed

The Harley Marine Services tug Dr. Hank Kaplan passes a containership at the Port of Seattle. Kirk Moore photo.

Four years after the Maritime Administration had promised to develop a national strategy to pump up the maritime industry, the proposal remains stuck in the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy, with no rescue in sight.

The initiative began with much anticipation in 2014 with a series of “listening sessions” in Washington and elsewhere that gathered a variety of views from different maritime sectors. Topics included mariner shortages, lagging port and intermodal freight infrastructure and the decline...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/trump-administration-review-of-national-maritime/

Marad seeks construction manager for new training ship

The first National Security Multi-Mission Vessel is expected to be delivered in 2022. SUNY Maritime image.

The U.S. Maritime Administration is seeking a vessel construction manager to oversee the building of the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, a new class of training ship that will replace aging vessels used by U.S. maritime academies.

The request for proposal issued Oct. 11 solicits potential construction managers to be selected by Marad to “contract with a qualified shipyard to ensure that commercial best practices are utilized in delivering the NSMV on time and on budget,” the agency said...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/marad-seeks-construction-manager-for-new-training-ship/

After Decades Of Failure I Am Confident Short Sea Shipping Will Return To The USA. Here’s Why Along With A Word Of Caution.

  Today’s episode of The REAL gCaptain Podcast was recorded in the wake of the Blue Highway Conference hosted by SUNY Maritime College.  We report on major work being done by MARAD and maritime industry stakeholders to defibrillate the once vibrant but now ailing near coastal and inland waterway...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gcaptain/~3/VrcayIBwk4U/

Marine highways called answer to interstate jams

A tug moving containers on a barge near New York City. SUNY photo.

A few miles east of a never-ending traffic jam on I-95 heading for the George Washington Bridge, port officials and barge operators said new marine highway routes can help deal with mounting congestion in the Northeast.

“The capacity lies back on the water. That’s where it all began. Before we had a rail and road system, that’s how we did it,” said Rear Adm. Mark Buzby, administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration, speaking at a marine highway conference hosted Thursday by the State...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/marine-highways-called-answer-to-interstate-jams/

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