![Coast Guard Station San Juan boat crew oversees a group of eight stowaway aliens apprehended moments earlier aboard the Charlotte Bridge barge as it was being towed into San Juan Harbor, May 22, 2026. [U.S. Coast Guard photo]](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/stowaways-300x225.jpg)
A Coast Guard Station San Juan boat crew and Homeland Security Task Force San Juan Region partner agencies apprehended eight stowaways in San Juan Harbor, Puerto Rico, May 22, 2026. The stowaways
Cybersecurity is rapidly becoming part of the vessel design conversation. That shift will be the focus of the upcoming Marine Log and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) virtual
Austal USA has awarded Kongsberg Maritime a contract to supply its Promas propulsion systems to the next four ships in the U.S, Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) Heritage Class program. The
Jeanerette, La.-headquartered Metal Shark Boats has delivered its Response Boat Small (RBS) III demonstrator to the U.S. Coast Guard, completing development and delivery within months of contract award. Metal Shark, which is
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has now released a report recently submitted in testimony before the House Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces, Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee on
![Homeland security cutter-light icebreaker class (HSC-L). [Image: USCG]](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/homelandseccutter-300x225.jpg)
As New Yorkers witnessed this January when ice disrupted ferry services, the Coast Guard doesn’t only break ice in the Arctic. Accordingly, the service’s program to modernize its icebreaker fleet includes a
A unified command yesterday approved the final salvage plan to remove the grounded barge, Defiant, from the rocks off the San Felipe del Morro Castle shoreline, Puerto Rico. As we reported earlier, the
Commuters in the New York City area today woke up to learn from their TV morning shows that ferry services continued to be disrupted by ice. “The freezing conditions around New York
![Adm. Kevin E. Lunday, the 28th Commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks after he was sworn in by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 15, 2026. [U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabriel Wisdom]](https://www.marinelog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/260115-G-JO805-1018-300x225.jpg)
During an event at Coast Guard Headquarters today, the United States Coast Guard held a formal swearing-in and assumption of command ceremony today for Adm. Kevin Lunday as the 28th Commandant of
Not all Coast Guard icebreaking operations involve Polar or Arctic-class icebreakers, and, in preparation for the 2026 winter season, the Coast Guard Northeast District has launched Operation RENEW (Reliable Energy for Northeast
