News & Announcements
Download the USCG Poster
Download the USCG Poster: “Sexual Assault Aboard a Vessel Is a Crime” The US Coast Guard has produced a poster to facilitate reporting a sexual assault. The poster can be downloaded from the MM&P website. Please Note: The poster includes a QR code that takes a person who wants to make a report to the […]
New App Enables Anonymous Reporting of Sexual Assault
The Coast Guard has announced CGIS Tips, a new app available from the Apple and Google app stores, to anonymously report a sexual assault to the Coast Guard Investigative Service. “Mariners have the right to work in a professional setting that is free from the threat of sexual offenses,” says Rear Adm. John Mauger, Coast Guard […]
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 […]
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 […]