摘要: |
TEN YEARS AGO, a report from the Government Accountability Office slammed the 11-year-old Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program, saying that the Department of Homeland Security "has not demonstrated how, if at all, TWIC will improve maritime security." TWENTY YEARS AGO, Trini-ty Industries Inc. signed a contract to build 16 double-hulled tank barges for Kirby Corporation; and the mv. Nonnie tied off after an en-gineroom fire on the Tombigbee River near Demopolis, Ala. THIRTY YEARS AGO, the largest oil spill on the Nech-es River in a decade was cleaned up in only four days; the mv. Elizabeth Beesecker reported a sunken gravel barge at Mile 65 of the Gulf In-tracoastal Waterway in Mississippi; and the Coast Guard said a submersible heavy-lift ship carrying 12 inland tank vessels was the widest "vessel" to depart the Port of New Orleans. |