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The National Maritime Center needs to streamline its processes for processing mariner credentials and documents.

Here is a list of U.S. Maritime Administration Small Shipyard Grant recipients located on the  inland rivers and Gulf Coast.

More funding is on the way for several ship-channel improvement projects in Texas, the Galveston Engineer District reports.

The project to build a new lock at Emsworth Dam received an additional $77 million in funding, the Pittsburgh Engineer District announced.

Ports, river cities and industries that depend on water transport all welcomed the announcement of the Corps of Engineers' work plan for FY 2022.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the award of more than $241 million in MarAd Port Infrastructure Development Program grants.

The 30 new Waterways Commerce Cutters planned by the Coast Guard will replace an existing fleet of 35 vessels, which have an average age of 56 years old.

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