Tag: Puerto Rico

The crew of a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry, deployed to Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen, Puerto Rico, detected a vessel on January 7. Watchstanders with Coast Guard Sector San Juan diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Heriberto Hernandez (WPC-1114), who arrived on scene, and embarked 35 migrants. The Coast Guard discovered a backpack with 4 kilograms of heroin floating near the vessel.

USCG has conducted three operations in the Eastern Pacific, Puerto Rico and Caribbean, where it seized 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 2,324 pounds of cocaine and 3,516 pounds of cocaine along with 50 pounds of marijuana respectively. Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Basin, which are known drug transit zones.

The USCG Cutter 'Joseph Tezanos' crew transferred custody of three smugglers and approximately $3.3 million dollars of cocaine to Drug Enforcement Administration agents at Coast Guard Sector San Juan on Thursday, following the interdiction of a go-fast vessel Sunday off Loiza, Puerto Rico.

As the summer travel season begins, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company notes major tourism milestones with an extremely promising arrival of cruise passengers, reaffirming, in this way, its position as a global attractive destination, despite the significant hurricane damage last year.

After more than two months at sea, providing disaster relief in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the amphibious warship USS Kearsarge returned to homeport at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. on 6th of November, United States Naval Institute said.

During the 2017 hurricane season in the US, many vessels rushed to help, because of the sever weather phenomena. In view of this, the US Coast Guard issued a Policy Letter describing the criteria that USCG certificated vessels require to meet in order to participate in the relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

The US Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday it believes that extending the 10-day waiver of Jones Act to Puerto Rico is unnecessary to enhance relief efforts for the island, on the aftermath of Maria hurricane.

The Trump Administration has announced decision to waive the Jones Act for Puerto Rico, on the aftermath of Maria hurricane. The waiver goes into effect from 28 September, for a 10-day period.

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