The National Maritime Center (NMC) has announced plans to begin issuing medical certificates electronically by email beginning April 1. The NMC says the change will improve delivery speed, reliability and… Read More
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Newly sworn-in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin identified his first priority as getting his agency funded, which would end the weeks-old partial government shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security… Read More
MobileOps and MM-SEAS have announced a strategic software integration aimed at reducing administrative delays and compliance-related vessel downtime by automating crew credential tracking and Sea Service Letter generation. The partnership… Read More
A Michigan man pleaded guilty last month to a felony charge related to falsifying records connected to a course he administered to students seeking to become credentialed merchant mariners. Read More
While the Marietta Manufacturing Company (MMC) was completing and outfitting the big steam towboat Alexander Mackenzie (WJ October 9) at its Point Pleasant, W.Va., shipyard, the first steel… Read More
Printer problems are extending delays renewing merchant mariner credentials, with the National Maritime Center saying its current backlog is approximately 2,700 credential booklets. Lt. Commander Eric Hatfield, public… Read More
Washington, D.C.—A record investment of nearly $450 million in available grant funding through the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) has been announced by the Maritime Administration (MarAd). Made… Read More
With the pandemic-related extensions for mariners’ licenses ending October 31, a new maritime company has published a guide geared toward helping mariners simplify license renewal. MM-SEAS, an online credential… Read More
Washington, D.C.—Even as the House was moving to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the incoming Senate majority leader, laid out a… Read More
In what the American Waterways Operators called a “commonsense, deregulatory win for towing vessels and mariners,” the Coast Guard issued a final rule May 27 that allows a… Read More
