IM Reporter

International Maritime Reporter / Maritime Labor

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

#halfrations #adrift #stranded
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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

Happy Mothers Day to those moms who see their children off to sea... and to those moms whose children see them off to sea.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

American did it because their friends who needed it did not have the capacity, money, or drive to do it.

You're welcome from the Obama administration on in.

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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

We are the #collateraldamage
20,000 #seafarers are trapped in the Mid East: #IMO calls for safe evacuation framework https://t.co/hw0HbOtdsj

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Everything's transactional
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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

On going budget and manpower shortfalls. Bad enough in our own backyard. Won't play well West of 180°.
USCG Awaits Additional Forces to Before Seizing Venezuela-Linked Tanker https://t.co/pmuRweKYiv

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

Christmas greetings... "stay" warm and "stay" safe

[Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle @USAmbassadorGR]

Earlier this week I joined @propeller_club to thank @AMVER award-winning maritime firms for safeguarding lives at sea across the globe. Vessels from Greek shipping companies saved a huge number of people at sea this year in partnership with this lifesaving @USCG initiative. #AMVER2025

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

On #pearlharborday #lumbership SS Cynthia Olson enroute #tacoma to #honolulu sunk by Japanese submarine. Crew abandoned ship but were never seen again. #dayofinfamy #WWII #pacificwar #usmerchantmarine #inpeaceandwar #nauticalhistory
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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

SS Muskogee, March 1942

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus this Public Service Announcement:

The KEY section of the Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

Outrageous. #ITF: What was the outcome of French law enforcement authorities
ITF condemns assault on ITF Inspector onboard vessel https://t.co/kjoFIwjr9A

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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

#thingshappen
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

https://t.co/rJXsFFA97A

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

Remembering #EdmundFitzgerald iron-ore carrier lost 50 years ago November 10, 1975, at Lake Superior with all 29 crew members

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

Ongoing issues of misidentified cargo and false weight manifests #shipfire #shipstability #marinetransportation
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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

TbT today being "#HorstWessel Day", will the #WarriorEthos administration rerename #USCGCEagle? (~)

[International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) @ITFglobalunion]

🇳🇱 Dockworkers at International Lashing Services B.V. and Matrans Marine Service B.V. in the Netherlands are preparing for strike action today.

Seafarers, under ITF/IBF agreements, you cannot be ordered to do lashing work normally done by dockworkers during a strike.

[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

#GulfOfAden #Houthi attack
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[IM Reporter @IMreportr]

83 years ago... #shipmate Douglas Munro #USCG
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