Tag: USCG

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) recorded 47 deficiencies to foreign flag Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODUs) in 2022.

USCG highlights that vessels that have installed power limiting devices (EPLs or permanent governors) should ensure that Pilot Cards are updated with the maximum available power as allowed by the EPL or governor installed.

Maersk Line Limited was found by OSHA to have illegally fired a whistleblower, and was ordered to reinstate the seaman and pay $457,759 in back wages, interest, compensatory damages, and $250,000 in punitive damages.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and partner agencies join efforts respond to a discharge of diesel fuel from a partially sunken tugboat near Florence, Alabama. 

Guam-French, Canadian, and U.S. Forces, with local responders, successfully conducted a search and rescue operation to save the operator and passengers of a distressed vessel off the coast of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, on July 10.

The U.S. Coast Guard convened a Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) into the loss of the Titan submersible and the five people on board.

On June 15, 2023, a U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia Sector Guam team conducted a port state control examination on the 472-foot Singapore-flagged commercial cargo vessel Kota Raja in the Port of Guam.

A recent Coast Guard investigation involving a fire and subsequent loss of propulsion on board an inspected vessel serves as a reminder of safety issues caused by condensate forming in air lines.

Up to 3,400 gallons of oil were spilled in the Mississippi river from a Kirby Inland Marine barge near Natchez, the U.S. Coast Guard said on 12th June. 

USCG released its annual Cyber Trends and Insights in the Marine Environment (ME) report. This report aims to provide relevant information about best practices to secure their critical systems based on USCG findings.