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Annual Review & Outlook 2013: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Capt. Jon S. Helmick, Director Maritime Logistics & Security Program
In 2013, we can expect threats to the security of our maritime supply chains, known and unknown, to persist. Changes in maritime security training regimes that will strengthen the professional competence of merchant mariners and port facility personnel to deal with these hazards are under way.
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ITF Targets ‘Black Sea of Shame’
10 May 2013
The International Transport Workers’ Federation and its affiliated maritime unions in Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine are aiming to improve safety and working conditions...
 
ICS, ITF Concerned About IMO Casualty Reporting Compliance
22 Apr 2013
The International Chamber of Shipping and the International Transport Workers’ Federation have made a joint submission to the International Maritime Organization expressing concern about...
 
Labor Department to Reinstate Maritime Safety Panel
16 Apr 2013
Seth D. Harris, acting secretary of labor of the U.S. Department of Labor, will re-establish the charter of the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health.
 
European Parliament Agrees on Changes to Implement Seafarer Protections
11 Apr 2013
The Irish presidency of the European Union has secured an agreement with the European Parliament on a new Port State Control Directive.
 
France Ratifies Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
04 Mar 2013
France has ratified the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, making it the 35th International Labour Office member state and the 13th European Union member state to ratify this convention, which sets out decent working and...
 
Brazilian Port Workers Delay Strike to Negotiate
26 Feb 2013
Brazilian port workers have agreed to delay their planned strike until March 15 to negotiate with government changes in MP (provisional measure) Ports.
 
Moroccan Court Sends Two Union Leaders to Prison
21 Feb 2013
The criminal Court of First Instance in Rabat, Morocco, has sentenced trade union leaders Said Elhairech and Mohamed Chamchati each to two and a half years of imprisonment.
 
ITF Urges Greece to Withdraw Civil Mobilization Order
11 Feb 2013
The International Transport Workers’ Federation has written to Antonis Samaras, Greece’s prime minister, and Kostas Mousouroulis, the Minister of Shipping and Aegean...
 
Retailers ‘Disappointed’ by OCU Contract Rejection
08 Feb 2013
The National Retail Federation today issued a statement by Jonathan Gold, NRF’s vice president for supply chain and customs policy, in response to the recent rejection of a labor contract...
 
ITF Inspectors Begin East Asia Maritime Action
25 Jan 2013
International Transport Workers’ Federation inspectors, along with dockers’ and seafarers’ union members, began the first East Asian maritime action week of 2013 today across ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan.

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