Rules & Regulations
Senator Calls for "Protectively Located" Fuel Tanks on Ships
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) last week called on the Coast Guard
Shipping slips down agenda as US recession looms large
Congress likely to delay decisions amid budget constraints A TOAST has duly been raised to the $9.3bn proposed for the US Coast Guard in President George Bush's 2009 budget, and complaints have been recorded over the $210m requested for port security on grounds that $400m is the minimum required.
The price of stability
AFTER the best part of a decade talking about tonnage tax and how it might be advantageous for Japanese shipping, it seems now that it could happen.
