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Three members of the U.S. House of Representatives from California proposed new legislation that would require U.S. ports to emphasize exports by giving priority to carriers that demonstrate their predominance of export bookings instead of carrying empty containers or departing with unused capacity.

IMCA published a ‘Global Specialist Offshore Support Vessel Market Overview’ report highlighting the risks to the US offshore energy industry, should the crewing legislation, referred to as the American Offshore Workers Fairness Act, be passed into law by the US Senate.

US authorities have stopped an oil tanker traveling from Russia to New Orleans to check whether it is Russian in origin.

The US government has announced a set of actions to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing that the White House says is significantly contributing to global overfishing and the collapse or decline of fisheries.

Carnival Corporation will pay a $5 million penalty to New York State for violations of the Cybersecurity Regulation that caused the exposure of a substantial amount of sensitive, non-public, personal data belonging to its customers. 

President Joe Biden signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA). The law aims to stop “shipping companies taking advantage of American families, farmers, ranchers and businesses,” the president said.

The US is urging European capitals to ease the impact of their ban on insuring Russian oil cargoes, claiming that this measure could cause global crude prices to skyrocket.

Three seafarers of the containership Simba jumped over the side in the entrance channel at the port of Jacksonville, Florida on June 15, as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection informed. 

The Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio, Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal, and Congressman John Garamendi applauded House passage of  S. 3580, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, considering key steps toward easing current supply chain challenges.

The Secretariat for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation agreed to move forward with the first step in a two-step process to investigate the US’s failure to uphold its environmental laws to protect North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglements.