U.S. Coast Guard’s drug busts seize $390 million worth of coke, pot

APRIL 24, 2018 — Fiscal Year 2017 was a record drug-busting year for the U.S. Coast Guard. Working with its interagency partners, it seized 455,000 pounds (227.5 tons) of cocaine with a

Coast Guard orders long-range interceptor boat

APRIL 23, 2018 — The U.S. Coast Guard has placed a delivery order for one long range interceptor-II (LRI-II) and standard delivery items including training and trailer, worth approximately $1.1 million, with

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,

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

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