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USCG To Host Search and Rescue Forum

Mar 03, 2014

The U.S. Coast Guard and Virginia Port Authority will host a five-day search and rescue forum starting Monday, focusing on topics including maritime search and rescue training, exercises and classroom discussion with numerous state and local law enforcement agency first responders in attendance…

USCG Warns of Upcoming Icebreaking Activities

Mar 03, 2014

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is alerting residents of icebreaking activities in the ports of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., beginning Tuesday in preparation for the 2014 shipping season.The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Alder, a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender homeported in Duluth…

Rafoth Named Great Lakes USCG Person of the Year

Feb 28, 2014

A Michigan-based Coast Guardsman stationed aboard Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw, a 240-foot ice-breaking buoy tender homeported in Cheboygan, Mich., was named the 2013 Coast Guard 9th District Enlisted Person of the Year, in an internal Coast Guard announcement Wednesday…

Hearing: Environmental Regs’ Impacts on Maritime Transportion

Feb 28, 2014

The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), will hold a hearing next week examining the impacts of federal environmental regulations on maritime transportation. This will be the…

Coast Guard Foundation to Honor 8th District at Upcoming Event

Feb 27, 2014

The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education and welfare of all Coast Guard members and their families, announced today that its 21st Annual Tribute to the United States Coast Guard Eighth District will take place on Friday…

BSEE's Salerno Visits Arctic Challenger, USCG, ABS Leaders

Feb 27, 2014

On February 20 and 21, 2014 Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director Brian Salerno and BSEE Alaska Region Director Mark Fesmire traveled to Bellingham, Wash. to meet with senior leaders from the U.S. Coast Guard and the…

Papp Delivers Final State of the Coast Guard Address

Feb 26, 2014

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp delivered his final State of the Coast Guard address at Coast Guard Headquarters, St. Elizabeths Campus, Washington, D.C., Wednesday.Papp provided an overview of programs and issues of the last four…

USCG Crew Awarded for Detroit River Rescue

Feb 21, 2014

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) formally recognized the crew of an education vessel at a ceremony Wednesday at Coast Guard Air Station Detroit, located at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., for saving two people when they responded to a mayday call in the Detroit River on Aug…

Great Lakes Icebreaking Time Quadrupled by Coast Guard

Feb 19, 2014

The US Coast Guard says that its nine Great Lakes icebreakers put in nearly four times as many icebreaking hours the first quarter of this fiscal year as compared to previous years, due to harsh winter weather.Pictured to the right: the…

SNAME to Host Energy Efficiency Workshop

Feb 19, 2014

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) will host a workshop on Marine Energy Efficiency for ships, tugs, ferries and OSVs at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS) in Linthicum Heights, Maryland…

Papp to Deliver State of the Coast Guard Address

Feb 18, 2014

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Commandant Adm. Bob Papp will deliver the 2014 State of the Coast Guard Address Feb. 26, 2014, in the Cdr. Raymond J. 'Ray' Evans Conference Center at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, beginning at 10:30 a.m.In what will be his final State of the Coast Guard Address…

Sea Star Assists Vessel Rescue

Feb 18, 2014

While in transit from Jacksonville, Florida to San Juan, Puerto Rico, the crew of Sea Star Line’s El Morro vessel received distress calls from a small fishing vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. The fishing vessel was attempting to hail the U.S. Coast…

Old Propulsion Machinery Top Cause of Ship Detentions

Feb 17, 2014

41% of all detentions in study due to deficiencies in propulsion and auxiliary machineryPreliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery, carried out between 1 September 2013 and 30…

The Coast Guard’s Proposed Maritime Preemption Assessment Framework

Feb 17, 2014

What it may foretell about the coming towing vessel rule.In the May 2013 issue of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, Dennis Bryant published a provocative article titled Rebuilding the Presumption of Preemption. Pointing to recent examples…

Coast Guard Foundation Creates New Scholarship

Feb 12, 2014

The Coast Guard Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to the education and welfare of Coast Guard members and their families, announced today it has established the Douglas Munro Scholarship Fund. Named for the only Coast Guard member to be awarded the Medal of Honor…

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