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IFSMA December 2025 Newsletter Online
The newest edition of the IFSMA newsletter for December 2025 is now online. Please click here to view a pdf copy.

NTSB Final Report Online
NTSB Final Report: Contact of Containership Dali with Francis Scott Key Bridge On December 10, 2025, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its final report on the Contact of containership Dali with Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent bridge collapse. The Board met on November 18, 2025, to adopt the final report. The accident occurred […]

Wheelhouse Weekly, Dec. 9, 2025
Volume 31… Number 49, December 9, 2025 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: NMC Announces Website Changes to Streamline MMC Application Process Security Team on Turkish Ship Exchanges Fire With Skiffs in Red Sea ITF Adds Three Countries to Its Flag-of-Convenience List Federal Workers Alliance Calls on Congress to Pass Legislation Restoring Union Rights to DOD […]

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 […]