Only if we allow it to happen...
Surface Transportation and FAA get billions in extension deal. Maritime funding is still out in the cold. DOT and Marad? Absent as usual from the docks.
The EXXON VALDEZ and COSCO BUSAN incidents both served, in the end, to improve safety and increase regulatory oversight of various aspects of marine transportation. Eventually – and like it or not – the fallout from Deepwater Horizon will do the same.
The dedication of the Maritime Environmental Research Center’s (MERC) barge-based Mobile Test Platform coincided perfectly with the latest meeting of the Great Lakes Ballast Water Collaborative Meeting at Baltimore, MD’s inner harbor on Tuesday. What transpired there shed new light on both the coming battles and the developing collaboration in the world of BWT technologies.