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The mailing address and zip code for Coast Guard headquarters has not changed. The format change takes effect June 15 and mandates a very specific format lest your important missive gets lost in the bowels of the DHS consolidated remote delivery site (CRDS), which processes incoming/outgoing U.S.

The hearings were held on May 20, 2009 in response to the attacks on the Maersk Alabama and Liberty Sun under the chairmanship of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Your editors thought the following quote summed up the situation:

The US Coast Guard issued a direct final rule adding the International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) Certificate to the list of certificates a recognized classification society may be authorized to issue on behalf of the United States. The rule will come into effect on August 6, unless the Coast Guard receives adverse comments on this rulemaking by June 22.

One persons good corporate stewardship is another's "tax avoidance". U.S. President Obama's plan would eliminate certain tax deductions for companies and consider U.S. citizens who use tax havens such as the Bahamas or Cayman Islands guilty of violating tax laws.

Hong Kong will host a diplomatic conference sponsored by a UN maritime group on ship recycling from May 11 to 15, 2009.

Maritime academies have been in the news lately as governments and shipping companies decide how best to deal with piracy. But these schools, including Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, are about much more than training ship captains.
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A member of the crew on the U.S.-flagged ship hijacked by African pirates sued the owner and another company Monday, accusing them of knowingly putting sailors in danger.