Response to gas pipeline fire continues
APRIL 19, 2018 — A Unified Command, consisting of Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office and RLB Contracting Inc., was yesterday continuing to respond to a gas pipeline fire near Port O’Connor,
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USCG responds to sunken towing vessel
MARCH 7, 2018 — The Coast Guard yesterday responded to a report of a sunken towing vessel at mile marker 832 of Everett Lake near Dyersburg, Tennessee. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector
U.S. and Russia propose new Bering Strait two way routes
JANUARY 26, 2018 — In response to increased Arctic shipping traffic, the United States and Russian Federation have proposed a system of two-way routes for vessels to follow in the Bering Strait
VIDEO: U.S., Canada forces battling “drug subs”
JANUARY 26, 2018 — In its ongoing battle with drug smugglers, the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday offloaded more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine with a street value of over $721 million from
USCG assists tugs beset by ice in Hudson River
JANUARY 2, 2018 — As winter weather continues to plunge the northeastern U.S. into the deep freeze, the Coast Guard has been assisting two vessels beset by ice in the Hudson River.
Fishing vessel cited for having “paper captain”
JANUARY 2, 2018 — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Oliver Berry (WPC 1124), a 154-foot Fast Response Cutter homeported in Honolulu, recently completed a 10-day patrol of the U.S. Exclusive Economic
Eastern Shipbuilding will use FORAN for OPC build
NOVEMBER 15, 2017 — Spanish engineering and technology group SENER reports that Panama City, FL-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) will use its FORAN shipbuilding CAD/CAM/CAE system to build the new class of
Mysteries of the NVDC revealed — a little
NOVEMBER 14, 2017 — A veil has been at least partially lifted from one of the greatest mysteries of all time: How the Coast Guard’s National Vessel Documentation Center (NVDC) arrives at
Navy, USCG issue Draft RFP for Polar icebreaker
OCTOBER 30, 2017—The U.S. Navy in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard under its Integrated Program Office, recently took the next step and released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the
USCG deployed electronic Aids to Navigation prior to Irma
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 — The United States Coast Guard established electronic Aids to Navigation (eATON) around critical U.S. waterways in Hurricane Irma’s forecasted track prior to the storm’s arrival. Prior to the