News & Announcements
Wheelhouse Weekly, June 13, 2023
Volume 29… Number 24, June 13, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Transportation Labor Calls for “Aggressive Strategies” to Address Mariner Shortfall MLL Fleet Goes Full Year Without a Lost Time Incident International Day of the Seafarer Is June 25 Lightering Operation To Start on Derelict Yemeni Oil Tanker Sign the Petition, Make the Call: […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, June 6, 2023
Volume 29… Number 23, June 6, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Navy Proposes Numerous Policy Changes To Improve Sailors’ Quality of Life U.S. Issues Warning to China After Risky Encounter in Taiwan Strait APL EAGLE Flagged-In by American President Lines MSC Captain Roshenda Josephs Named to New USMMA Advisory Council Filipino Mariners Will Soon […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, May 30, 2023
Volume 29… Number 22, May 30, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Patriot Wins Time Charter Contract To Operate HAINA PATRIOT Crew of USNS YUMA Wins MSC Maritime Excellence Award White House Allocates Millions More in Funding for Ferry Systems Pending Bill Would Harm Maritime, U.S.-Flag Coalition Tells Congress NOAA Forecasts Near-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, May 23, 2023
Volume 29… Number 21, May 23, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Always There, in Peace and War: MM&P President Tells FOX Audience What People Should Know About the Merchant Marine National Maritime Day Commemoration and Presidential Proclamation World War II Mariners To Be Honored at National Memorial Day Concert Weeks Marine Takes Delivery of […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, May 16, 2023
Volume 29… Number 20, May 16, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Unions Call on Congress to Raise Debt Ceiling Without Preconditions Federal Employees Could Be Fired for Any Reason Under New Bill Two Mariners Have Surrendered Their USCG Licenses in Midshipman-Y Sexual Assault Case Plus: MITAGS Seeks Lead Manager for Navigation Skills Assessment Program […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, May 9, 2023
Volume 29… Number 19, May 9, 2023 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Six Crewmembers Kidnapped by Pirates Are Now on the Way Home New Edition of IFSMA Newsletter Posted on Bridgedeck.org Contaminated Fuel Caused MV WALLA WALLA Grounding Keel-Laying Ceremony for Third Maritime Academy Training Ship Iranian Navy Seizes Panama-Flagged Tanker in Strait of Hormuz […]