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Owners, operators, and other interested parties related to the operation of marine terminals should review and comment on a Coast Guard Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...

This holiday season is keeping retailers on their toes. On one hand, the return of somewhat normal operations and expectations that consumers are lighting up the registers are causes for celebration.

The Maritime Security Program (the "MSP") is a U.S. government program under which a fleet of commercially viable, militarily useful merchant ships active in international trade...

The Shipbuilding and Harbor Infrastructure for Prosperity and Security for America Act (SHIPS for America Act) that was originally introduced in Congress in 2024 has been reintroduced in the Senate...

U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate negotiators reached agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (S. 1790)

On 12 July 2023, a study was published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology on different models in Europe for directly shipping drugs to patients during decentralized clinical trials (DCTs)...

On 7 November 2014, OW Bunker A/S, a global supplier and trader of marine fuel, filed for bankruptcy in Denmark. Further bankruptcies of OW subsidiaries and affiliates swiftly followed.

On October 12, 2005, Apache Corporation and Specialty Rental Tools & Supply ("STS") entered into a Master Services Contract ("MSC").

A recent federal court decision may bring about a new wave of overtime claims by offshore workers, particularly those working within the territorial waters of Louisiana...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc recently rendered an important opinion for all employers of maritime workers who look to define their employees

Recently, the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, in Thompson v. Cenac Towing Co., L.L.C., analyzed a trial court's grant of summary judgment...

In historical cases where hurricanes or natural disasters have disrupted the U.S. energy and oil supply, it does not take long before questions begin to arise whether there is a need for Jones Act waivers ...

Two recent False Claims Act (FCA) settlements between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and transportation companies point to the continuation ...

Below is this week's congressional update by BakerHostetler's Federal Policy team. We'll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session.

As technological innovation continues to unfold at a torrid clip, the challenges of protecting against theft and fraud have never been greater. Commercial shipping, for example, faces a new and daunting set of technological exposures that can take the form of hacking of a vessel's navigational systems, email-induced surrenders of cargo, and the computer-enabled falsification of shipping documents, just to name a few.

On Aug. 7, 2018, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of Barker Boatworks, LLC, rejecting Yellowfin Yacht's Florida Uniform Trade Secret Act (FUTSA) claim