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Labor negotiations between the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) are at a critical impasse, raising concerns of a potential strike along the East and Gulf Coasts.

Common carriers and marine terminal operators must start reviewing their current demurrage and detention billing process to ensure that their business practices fully comply...

In January 2018, the Fifth Circuit in In Re: In the Matter of the Complaint of Larry Doiron, Incorporated set aside the "confusing," six-factor, fact-intensive test of maritime contract jurisdiction ...

The case involved a collision of two tug and barge flotillas on the lower Mississippi River.

The Federal Maritime Commission has launched Special Investigation Number 26-01 to examine whether vessel-operating common carriers are engaging in discriminatory practices against U.S. exporters and service providers...

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued several personnel updates last week, including the appointment of a new Chairman and the expansion of its Office of Administrative...

In The Commission Blog's first post, our team addressed one of the most anticipated outcomes from the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022...

It is a fundamental precept of military planning that naval operations are a capital-intensive endeavor, given the long time involved in the design and construction of the ships of the U.S. Navy's fleet.

In London Arbitration 2/20 the tribunal determined that it had jurisdiction under a standard "Gencon 94" form "law and arbitration" provision, which had been incorporated into the charterparty

Brigadier General John J. Pershing, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in World War I once famously said, "Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars."

On May 25, the Biden administration announced an effort with the State of California to advance certain areas of California's northern and central coastal waters for offshore wind farms opening up...

On this episode, attorney Paul Durham speaks with Jen Kennedy, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation.

Lewis Brisbois' National Cargo & Logistics Practice was established to advise clients on the wide range of issues they face in the transportation industry—from catastrophic accidents and employee...

The opening session for this year's Connecticut Maritime Association Shipping Conference is titled, "We've always been an industry, now we need to be a business."

Recently enacted federal legislation geared toward making employment at sea safer has resulted in many mariners being denied credentials and/or renewals of their credentials through the National Maritime Center. 46 USC 7511, enacted in 2022, bans the issuance of any merchant marine credentials (MMC) to anyone who has been convicted under the federal sexual abuse statutes (18 USC Ch 109A) or under state statutes deemed substantially similar.

On August 28, 2026, the Maritime Administration (MARAD) published an interim final rule rewriting the regulations governing the Vessel and Shipyard Financing Program, commonly known as the Title XI Program, found at 46 CFR Part 298. The rule took effect immediately upon publication, though MARAD is accepting public comments through October 27, 2026.

In July 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 200, a bill that includes the Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management Act of 2017 (Modern Fish Act).