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Transportation Today
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) recently petitioned the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study inconsistencies in cargo screening standards at U.S. ports that have halted service at Michigan’s Port of Monroe. The lawmakers maintain that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Detroit Field Office has restricted the Port from accepting international break bulk cargo unless the Port invests in screening technology and infrastructure upgrades at their own expense.
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NMLEA
What does "maritime leadership development, training and education" look like? What should it look like? How long should it be? Is there enough training and workforce development available for our future maritime managers, supervisors, administrators and professionals?
Together with University of South Florida Center for Maritime and Port Studies, we think we have an opportunity to shape and enhance the skills and knowledge of our future leaders, and you can help! Take a few minutes and provide your valuable input that will help chart the course!
Take this ten-minute survey and let us know what you think. Just click here: https://lnkd.in/ezsXzwJ
NMLEA
The Department of Homeland Security has announced its grant programs for 2020, and among them is the Port Security Grant Program (PSGP). $100 Million will be available, and an overview of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) can be found by clicking here.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Deadlines: April 8th for initial application, and April 15th, 2020 at 5:00 PM for final application.
- There is a cost share requirement, 25% for public sector, 50% for public sector.
- Cost share requirement is waived for training of law enforcement agencies in security zone enforcement, or for applications totaling $25,000 or less.
- Priority Areas: Enhancing Cybersecurity ; Enhancing the Protection of Soft Targets and Crowded Places; Training and Awareness; Planning; Addressing Emerging Threats, such as Transnational Criminal Organizations, WMD and UAS
- Eligible Applicants: All entities subject to an Area Maritime Security Plan
Note that a lot of things have to happen in order for your application to go through, so feel free to reach out to the NMLEA (info@nmlea.org) for guidance and assistance in your process. We have experienced PSGP professionals that help you navigate!
NMLEA
Now until March 6th, 2020, the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office is accepting nominations for the Law Enforcement - Maritime Doman Awareness Executive Steering Committee (MDA ESC) Excellence Award.
NMIO will be presenting two Law Enforcement MDA ESC Excellence Awards this year. One will be presented at the Maritime Security East Conference in Miami, 4-5 May to a person/organization that have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the area of responsibility for Florida.
The other Law Enforcement MDA ESC Excellence award will be presented at the IALEA conference in Dallas, 4-8 May to a person/organization that have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the United States and its territories.
Award Background:
In support of the stated goals of the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan (NMDAP), the National MDA Executive Steering Committee establishes an annual national level maritime domain awareness award program “MDA ESC Excellence Award” to recognize exemplary stakeholder members of the Global Maritime Community of Interest (GMCOI), whose accomplishments have made a significant contribution to improving the effective understanding of the maritime domain in the United States and its territories. This includes the US Federal interagency, US Intelligence Community (IC), state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies, international partners, academia, and maritime industry.
To nominate someone, contact Michelle Green at michelle.l.green2@navy.mil or the NMLEA at info@nmlea.org.
CNBC
Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, recently told CNBC that based on a sharp slowdown in shipping he believes the economic drag from the new coronavirus will turn out to be larger than SARS.
Seroka was working in Shanghai for a Singapore-based container and shipping company, called American President Lines, during the outbreak nearly two decades ago of severe acute respiratory syndrome, which also originated in China.
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American Maritime Partnership
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) recently released a new study detailing the benefits of the American maritime industry to national security, titled “Strengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base.”
As a first-time review of the impact of the U.S. domestic maritime industry to national security, this historic report found that the domestic fleet provides the largest source of merchant mariners for U.S. surge sealift operations, supports shipbuilders that also construct government vessels, ensures the maintenance of the U.S. waterways and shipping lanes, and helps reduce the potential of foreign mariners illegally entering the United States.
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Beaumont Enterprise
The Coast Guard is threatening New York-based Bouchard Transportation Co. with tens of thousands of dollars in fines for leaving two tugboats anchored offshore from Port Arthur for nearly three months.
"The tugs Kim M. Bouchard and Danielle M. Bouchard and their associated barges have been anchored off Texas Point since mid-December with no known plans to move and crews unpaid since January, raising safety concerns for the crews remaining aboard as well as the public and other professional mariners, and environmental concerns for the region," the Coast Guard said in a news release Feb. 27.
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The Post and Courier
The freedom of being out on the water, being your own captain and leaving landlubber laws behind are some of boating's biggest draws. But with that freedom comes responsibilities — to everyone onboard, to other boaters and to the vessel itself — and the captain is always outranked by the weather, the tides and the nature of water.
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MLive via Military.com
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew used a rescue swimmer to save a person who had fallen through ice near Detroit.
The crew from Air Station Detroit responded to the scene after receiving a call of a Canadian national who had fallen through the ice between Detroit and Ontario on Feb. 23. The crew arrived on scene quickly and located an individual on the ice. They deployed a rescue swimmer to assess the situation.
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KGO-TV
Through mid-February, the Port of Oakland had largely escaped any slowdowns related to the spread of the novel coronavirus in Asia, but that appears to be changing.
Port spokesman Mike Zampa says more than 20 container ships from China have cancelled trips to the U.S. west coast over the next four to five weeks.
That's about 20% of the ships that import products to Oakland in a given month.
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WJAR-TV
The U.S. Coast Guard said Feb. 26 they suspended the search for two missing Rhode Island boaters in Florida. The Coast Guard said 81-year-old Gerald Cook and his son, 55-year-old Peter Cook, have been missing since Feb. 19. Four dogs were also with them on the boat.
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