News & Announcements

Wheelhouse Weekly, Dec. 2, 2025
Volume 31… Number 48, December 2, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Maersk Says It Has No Specific Timeline for Returning to Suez Canal Transits CSA Honors Mariners and Ships for Environmental Excellence More Countries Adopt Cabotage Laws Like the Jones Act Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson Assumes Command of MSC 2026 Mariners for America Conference […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Nov. 25, 2025
Volume 31… Number 46, November 25, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Bipartisan Majority Moves to Force House Vote on Bill to Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights NTSB Says Loose Wire Led to Fatal Baltimore Bridge Strike MLL Executive Moves One Step Closer to Confirmation as Maritime Administrator Iran Releases Tanker Seized in Gulf of […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Nov. 18, 2025
Volume 31… Number 456, November 18, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Houthis Say They Will Stop Red Sea Attacks Iran Seizes Tanker in Gulf of Oman Resumption of Service at NMC Regional Examination Centers Piracy Rises in First Nine Months of 2025 Navy Awards General Dynamics the Contract for Two More John Lewis Class […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Nov. 11, 2025
Volume 31… Number 45, November 11, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: One in Four Seafarers Get No Shore Leave at All MM&P Pledges Support for Global Alliance to Protect Port Workers’ Jobs US Salutes Merchant Mariners on Veterans Day Suspension of Port Fees on China-Linked Ships 50th Anniversary of the Sinking of the SS […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Nov. 4, 2025
Volume 31… Number 44, November 4, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Maritime Industry Salutes Mariners, MM&P Plans Trustee and MLL Executive Unions Reiterate Support for SHIPS Act in Testimony for Shipbuilding Hearing SLNC STAR Saves Crew of Drifting Fishing Boat US and China Suspend Reciprocal Port Fees for a Year Unions Call on Administration […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Oct. 28, 2025
Volume 31… Number 43, October 28, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: White House Nominee for Maritime Administrator Testifies Before Senate Committee “MM&P and APA Members Share a Mission and an Immense Responsibility,” MM&P President Says STCW Dispensations to Mitigate Impact of Government Shutdown US Navy Lays Keel for New Navajo-Class Towing, Rescue and Salvage […]