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Shell Ship Management Limited (Shell) and the American Maritime Officers (AMO) have signed a pioneering Memorandum of Understanding through which qualified AMO officers, deck and engine, will begin to be recruited to work aboard international liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers that are managed by Shell. The signing ceremony was hosted by the Maritime Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation building in Washington, D.C.
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Administrator Connaughton presides at OAS Session. Pictured left to right: Ryan Lai of the Maritime Administration staff, Michael Brown of U.S. Coast Guard, Administrator Connaughton, and Carlos Gallegos, Secretary of the Interamerican Committee on Ports of the Organization of American States.

On April 7, Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton led a 20 member United States delegation that included representatives from the Maritime Administration, Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Customs and Border Protections, Army National Guard, Navy Southern Command and Coast Guard to the Organization of American States (OAS) Third Hemispheric Conference on Port Security. The conference was held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This is the first time a Maritime Administrator has attended a multi-national conference dealing with maritime issues covering the entire Western Hemisphere. The conference was attended by the 34 member nations of the OAS along with representatives from the private sector and several observer states and organizations including the European Union and the International Maritime Organization.

The Maritime Administration has an active role in the OAS Inter-American Committee on Ports. It holds the chairmanship of the Technical Advisory Group on Port Security, the Subcommittee on Port Security and the Subcommittee on Training. The Maritime Administration also sits on the Committee’s Executive Board and serves as the Executive Board Chair for North America.