Tag: USA

Four seafarers from Colombia, Panama, and Peru have been abandoned on a 60-year-old tugboat, the Wycliffe, in Puget Sound, Washington.

The US Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued a new authorization that allows certain transactions involving the exportation or reexportation of liquefied petroleum gas to Venezuela until July 8, 2025.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor's proposal to establish the first international sea cargo container terminal on Lake Michigan, paving the way for the only all-water container route for ocean vessels to serve the greater Chicago metropolitan area via the Great Lakes.

The Captain of the PS Dream, a Panama-flagged motor tanker, pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and obstructing proceedings.

The Maritime Administration (MARAD) under the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced its intention to allot $4.8 million in funds for the United States Marine Highway Program (USMHP) in Fiscal Year 2024.

The Federal Maritime Commission launched an investigation on 21 May 2024, to determine if pending Canadian regulations governing ballast water management systems of ships in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes trade have a disparate effect on U.S. flagged vessels and constitute a Foreign Shipping Practices violation under 46 U.S.C. Chapter 423.

Two ship engineers pleaded guilty on May 7, to charges related to concealing pollution and falsifying records onboard an oil tanker near a petroleum terminal in Sewaren, New Jersey.

The World Shipping Council (WSC) has filed a petition for review with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking to have the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) correct an internal contradiction in its new rule on detention and demurrage. 

According to the US Government, General License 44, which authorizes transactions related to oil or gas sector operations in Venezuela, expired on April 18.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has initiated a criminal investigation into the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.