News & Announcements
New U.S. Coast Guard cutter heading to work Great Lakes
News from Michigan Live which writes: LAKE SUPERIOR – More than a year after it arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore for a scheduled maintenance overhaul to prep it for its Great Lakes assignment, the 225-foot cutter Spar is on its way to its new home port in Lake Superior. Below is […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, March 8, 2022
Volume 28… Number 10, March 8, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: 89th MM&P Regular Convention Call Now Online: MM&P Women’s Caucus Guide: “Building a Respectful Maritime Workplace” Plus: Alaska Ferry Workers Are Leaving for Jobs That Pay More, Unions Say Kings Point Superintendent Jack Buono Announces His Retirement White House Strengthens “Made in America” […]
Your Shipmates Are Counting on You: Building a Respectful Maritime Workplace
Your Shipmates Are Counting on You: Building a Respectful Maritime Workplace The MM&P Women’s Caucus has published a resource guide to further its mission of effecting change to assure equal rights, respect and safety for all mariners and workers in the maritime industry. The new guide, “Your Shipmates Are Counting on You: Building a Respectful […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, March 1, 2022
Volume 28… Number 9. March 1, 2022 STORIES COVERED Russian-Ukraine War: Nautilus Federation Calls on Shipowners To Safeguard Mariners Unions Stand in Solidarity With the People of Ukraine United Kingdom Closes Ports to Russian Shipping; European Union Expected To Follow Major Container Lines Suspend Shipments to and From Russia and Ukraine Also: DOT Says Growing […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, February 22, 2022
Volume 28… Number 8…February 22, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: New Federal Infrastructure Funds Will Revitalize Great Lakes Region, White House Says Bipartisan Bill Would Tighten Oversight of Foreign Vessels in Offshore Energy Sector Matson Reports Record Profits US-Flag Shipping on the Great Lakes Up 16.8 Percent in 2021 Also: Panama-Flagged Car Carrier Still […]
Wheelhouse Weekly, February 15, 2022
Volume 28… Number 7…February 15, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: New Federal Maritime Commissioner Max Vekich Is Former Labor Leader, Longshore Worker A.P. Moller–Maersk Reports Record Earnings CMA CGM Vessels To Stop Transporting Plastic Waste US Maritime Advisory: Risks Due to Regional Tensions in Black Sea and Sea of Azov MM&P Plans Announcement: Over-the-Counter […]