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Army Corps Commits $479 Million to Soo Lock
Army Corps Commits $479 Million To New Soo Lock – Enough To Finish It At Last Detroit, MI – The most uncertain aspect of any federal project is the availability of funding to get it finished, but it appears the construction of a long-awaited new navigation lock at Sault Ste. Marie has, for now, crossed […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, January 18, 2022
Volume 28… Number 3…January 18, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Another Supply Chain Crisis Waiting To Happen: Mandatory Overtime Pushing Panama Canal Tug Captains to the Edge US Maritime Workers on the Front Lines: Imports Continue To Surge at Southern California Ports; Oakland Introduces Queuing System for Arriving Ships White House Port Envoy Salutes […]

Winter 2021 Master, Mate & Pilot Magazine Online
The Winter 2021 edition of our magazine The Master, Mate & Pilot is available online. Winter 2021 Magazine The Master, Mate & Pilot is published by the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P). The articles in the magazine are copyrighted by MM&P. For reprint permission, contact the MM&P Communications Office: communications@bridgedeck.org.

Wheelhouse Weekly, January 11, 2022
Volume 28… Number 2…January 11, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: AFL-CIO Unions Call for Action and Accountability on One-Year Anniversary ofCapitol Attack Updated Passport Renewal Procedures for Mariners Australia’s Labor Party Wants New National Fleet To Safeguard Security, Protect Supply Chain – In Tit for Tat With Houthi Rebels, Saudi Coalition Seizes Tanker Gulf […]

LA Times Joins MM&P Members Aboard DELAT TERESA
LA TIMES JOINS MM&P MEMBERS AT WORK ABOARD DELTA TERESA At 0400, two days before Christmas, a journalist and a photographer for the LA Times stepped aboard DELTA TERESA as it idled at the entrance to Long Beach Harbor. The tug has been deployed by San Francisco-based Baydelta Maritime to the Southern California ports, now […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, January 4, 2022
Volume 28… Number 1…January 4, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: LA Times Joins MM&P Members at Work Aboard DELTA TERESA Global Seafarer, a Publication of the Nautilus Federation, Is Now Online Houthi Rebels Seize UAE-Flag OSV, Alleging Clandestine Weapons Transport Gulf of Guinea: US Maritime Advisory One Killed, Six Kidnapped, in Attack on Chinese […]