Welcome Wednesday!

Four more ships have joined the ranks of the more than 20,000 ships that volunteer to save lives at sea. Why would any shipping company want the extra burden of participating in Amver? For starters, the administrative burden of enrolling is small.

It takes less than 5 minutes to enroll a ship. Second, position reports can be sent automatically from several commercial providers such as Pole Star or Transas. Finally, if you have to send manual reports those are only a few lines of an email.

Your ship won't be unnecessarily diverted for an emergency. The benefit is you may end of saving a life. So please, consider joining Amver and help us welcome the latest members is the Amver safety network.

• NEW HONOR
• JACOB OLDENDORFF
• SPECTRUM OF THE SEAS
• DEBBIE H

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