The Coast Guard announced a contract of up to $6.13 million for up to 10 Special Purpose Craft-Ice Rescue Transport Second Generation boats known as SPC-IRT IIs to provide… Read More
Legislative/Regulatory
The Coast Guard published Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) 02-26, Cybersecurity Regulations Implementation Guidance for Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) Regulated Entities to help owners and operators of… Read More
The Simulation, Training, Assessment & Research (STAR) Center is scheduled to host a listening session on November 19 to provide the Coast Guard with individual user feedback on Navita… Read More
U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin October 16 demanding a detailed accounting of whether the legal conditions and reporting requirements… Read More
Ten years after Subchapter M established a federal inspection framework for towing vessels, Tava Foret views the anniversary less as an endpoint than as the beginning of the… Read More
Travis Fillmore compares the data from sensors and strain gauges on lock gates as similar to the results of blood pressure readings and other medical tests doctors may order… Read More
Key senators announced a “groundbreaking” bipartisan agreement to overhaul the federal environmental review and permitting processes and get to a yes or no faster on projects while keeping… Read More
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, cited “vastly different” provisions between the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) advanced by her panel… Read More
The House of Representatives voted on Sept. 16, in H.J. Res. 213, to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the EPA waiver that allowed California to enforce strict… Read More
Ronald Corigliano Ron Corigliano did not start out looking for a career in the inland river industry. While he was growing up, the steel industry in the Pittsburgh area… Read More
