Welcome Wednesday!

You've done it again! Despite a global pandemic, the middle of summer, a slowdown in shipping you have continued to demonstrate your commitment to safety at sea by joining Amver. As we continue our mission to ensure no call for help goes unanswered, you continue to help us make that happen. Thank you for supporting this 63-year-old program dedicated to helping those in distress at sea. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• TRANSOCEAN LEADER
• DEEPWATER SKYROS
• IMOGEN
• GASLOG WESTMINISTER
• YM TRUTH

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Welcome Wednesday!

While we continue to wrestle with the new way of doing business, one thing remains the same. The need for brave seafarers to bring us the goods we need continues. We don't know where we'll be in the coming days or weeks. What we do know is that we'll still need stuff. School supplies, shoes, food, clothing, and countless other good necessary for our daily lives. Thank you, seafarers, for continuing to bring those things to us. And thank you for continuing to answer calls for help, ensuring help and rescue for those in distress at sea. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• EVER READY
• WORLD CREST
• BW PAVILION ARANTHERA
• BULK ITALY
• BRIGHT VENTURE
• FAIRCHEM FORTITUDE

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Welcome Wednesday!

The new normal. That's what we are all getting used to. Video calling, online ordering, remote working and learning. Just because many of us are staying home doesn't mean the seas are any less dangerous. Distress calls continue to come in to rescue authorities around the world. The demand for goods continues to drive the shipping sector to get things to us in a timely manner. Thankfully, seafarers continue to join Amver week after week. Thank you for enrolling in the Amver program and ensuring no call for help goes unanswered.

• MARVIN STAR
• OSHIMA MARU
• AFRICAN PARROT
• YU LIN HAI
• SM HARMONY1
• MARAN PHOEBE
• WISTERIA SALUTE
• ETERNAL GLORY
• RUI YANG
• EVER BEADY

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Welcome Wednesday!

Thank you! Once again you've shown how dedicated you, the maritime community, are to safety at sea. We're grateful for your support in global search and rescue. You help ensure no call for help goes unanswered. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• BOSS
• CLIPPER ENYO
• SEOHAE GAS
• HAI YAN
• VALKYRIE
• IRIS WAVE
• ZUIYO
• MOL TRIBUTE
• MAERSK HAVANA
• HUNTER IDUN
• LIGHT VENTURE
• SUNGKIANG
• DESERT VIRTUE
• MSC CAMILLE
• SOLAR SHARNA
• OSHIMA MARU

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Why Shipping Matters

For most of us school ended with children at home, collaborating online, perhaps struggling with online lessons, and wondering when the next package would arrive.  Many parents struggled with at-home schooling. Many families and students struggled with video learning. Thankfully, our friends at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers developed a way for students to learn about shipping. Why Shipping Matters is a perfect program to complement in-school or at-home learning. These lessons can also be adapted for Scouts!

Why do we need to teach our children about shipping? First, we've become increasingly aware of the importance of shipping as we've been locked away at home. Everything from the device we're reading this on to the bananas in our morning cereal has likely arrived by ship. Secondly, shipping lessons are life, history, math, and science lessons. "Shipping is integral to every aspect of our daily lives," says Julie Lithgow, Director of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. "Everyday school and home lessons can easily be tied in to lesson on shipping. The parallels are incredible!" she added.

The parallels are seemingly everywhere. Anything from geography to physical education has a maritime equivalent. Physical education? Really? Yes, try the semaphore alphabet and tell us you didn't burn some calories!

Amver is proud to support this endeavor and encourage teachers and families to explore the lessons on the Why Shipping Matters page. 

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Welcome Wednesday!

We're always intrigued at the numbers and types of ships enrolling in Amver. This week is no different. This week's surprise includes a fish carrier! Thank you for continuing to support our efforts to ensure no call for help goes unanswered. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• FAR SANTANA
• JUN HE
• CASTRO ALVES
• DA ZHI
• WESTERN SANTIAGO
• DOUCE FRANCE
• RONJA ISLANDER
• MORNING GLORY
• FAIRCHEM ANGEL
• QOGIR
• WESTERN MOSCOW

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Welcome Wednesday!

We celebrate World Ocean's Day, Day of the Seafarer, World Maritime Day among other maritime-related days. Every day we celebrate you. Your dedication to safety at sea speaks volumes about your character and willingness to ensure those in peril are saved. Amver exists because you continue to say "yes, we will help" and we're grateful. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• EVVIVA
• SAPURA DIAMANTE
• YM CELEBRITY
• BULK CROATIA
• BBC ST. PETERSBURG
• SARA
• LOWLANDS TEAL
• HUNTER DISEN
• FRAGRANT ATHENA
• SOUCO
• FRONT DYNAMIC
• HAFNIA BEIJING
• GLAD YOUNG
• FAR SANTANA
• JUN HE
• CASTRO ALVES
• DA ZHI
• WESTERN SANTIAGO
• DOUCE FRANCE
• RONJA ISLANDER
• MORNING GLORY

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Welcome Wednesday!

Thank you, seafarers. That thanks can't be said often enough. Despite the ongoing health challenges around the world, seafarers come to work and ensure global commerce continues. Masks, gloves, gowns, food, school supplies, computers, and all of the other things we need are on ships. Each day these men and women make it possible for us to learn, work, provide medical care, and otherwise live our lives. Thank you, seafarers. In addition to making sure we get what we need, these seafarers are helping to save lives at sea. Here is the latest group of ships in the Amver safety network. 

• ATLANTIC PRINCE
• OLAVO BILAC
• NAVIOS GALAXY II
• LEM VERBENA
• HAPPY PEREGRINE
• FLEX ARTEMIS
• EVVIVA

Welcome Wednesday!

While we continue to hunker down and stay home, our brave seafarers continue to deliver. They're delivering the good and providing a resource for search and rescue if necessary. The ability of search and rescue services to leverage vessels of opportunity helps ensure other missions can continue as well.

Port State Control inspections, environmental response, public health response, and a myriad of other responsibilities continue because you are willing to help perform search and rescue. Thank you. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• TEMPEST
• TWISTER
• BRISOTE
• SUNDOWNER
• FENG ZE YUAN
• BIT ECO
• PACIFIC TRADER
• XIN LONG YANG
• AMIS RESPECT
• SINCERENICE 1

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Welcome Wednesday!

You know who's not staying home? Seafarers. If there are approximately 50,000 ships either underway or in port around the world and those ships have an average of 20 crewmembers that comes to over one million seafarers! That million-person flotilla continues to bring us the computers needed to educate our children learning at home, the masks and safety equipment needed to protect our frontline workers, and the food to feed us while we are staying home. Most of us don't know these men and women, but we're dependent on them to help us and deliver the goods on time. Thank you, seafarers! Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network as well. These seafarers agree to save others at sea, ensuring no call for help goes unanswered.

• SCORPIUS
• MAERSK CONARKY
• MAERSK CUBANGO
• MAERSK CARDIFF
• MARETE MAERSK
• MAASTRICHT MAERSK
• MAERSK HILDAGO
• GW DOLPHIN
• HAI HONG
• MAERSK CASABLANCA
• GREENER
• MUNKEBO MAERSK
• SHANDONG REN HE
• RESOLUTE
• MAERSK HANGZHOU
• TS PUSAN
• MAERSK CADIZ
• HEBE HARMONY
• FEDERAL OSAKA
• ORIENTAL WIND
• ECO YOSEMITE PARK
• FESCO NAVAEGO
• EARTH HARMONY
• ORANGE TRUTH
• MED ERME
• EF AVA
• WECO JOSEFINE
• AMBERJACK LNG
• MAERSK HOUSTON
• NORD ELEGANCE

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Welcome Wednesday!

There's a saying on a bridge in Trenton, New Jersey. It says Trenton Makes, The World Takes. Now more than ever the world is taking and relying on you, the seafarer to deliver the goods. The things the world needs may not all come from Trenton any more, but the world is still taking. The contribution of seafarers like you will help make the seas safer. Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network.

• ALFRED OLDENDORFF
• WESTERN SINGAPORE
• LEM MARIGOLD
• VINCENT TALISMAN
• TSURUGI GALAXY
• PS VENEZIA
• CL QINGSUI HE
• ASTERIA
• BLUE SEA
• MYGAS
• RABEA
• MAERSK HANOI
• BUZLUDJA
• ARTEMIS BULKER
• EVER CORE
• JUSTA DELIA
• ENDEAVOR
• PACIFIC MERIT
• ZEA SERVANT
• BENJAMIN OLDENDORFF

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Welcome Wednesday!

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, people have come to realize the incredible contribution made by you, the seafarer. Your willingness to continue to crew ships and ensure safe and timely delivery of goods are incredible. Thank you!

In addition to coming to work and crewing your ships, you continue to enroll in Amver. Now more than ever the contributions to safety at sea are needed and you are helping to make sure there are ample resources for maritime search and rescue. Again, thank you!

Help us welcome the latest members of the Amver safety network and be well.

• SEAVELVET
• STI MIGHTY
• STOLT GUILLEMOT
• MSC ANNA
• PREVEZE 1
• CMA CGM PANAMA
• DIETRICH OLDENDORFF
• ECO JOSHUA PARK
• BW
• ECO ARCTIC
• PAULA TRADER
• GASLOG WINDSOR
• ALFRED OLDENDORFF
• WESTERN SINGAPORE
• LEM MARIGOLD
• VINCENT TALISMAN
• TSURUGI GALAXY
• PS VENEZIA
• CL QINGSHUI HE

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Amver Awards Continue Despite Ongoing Medical Situtation

The U.S. Coast Gaurd AMVER awards, a mainstay of recognizing seafarer contribution to safety at sea, will continue despite the ongoing medical situation.

Historically the awards are given at industry events, embassy receptions, or other maritime celebrations around the world. The current medical situation has forced AMVER staff to find a way to ensure awards would still get to ships and companies.

"Seafarers earned these awards and it would be unfair to stop a program that recognizes the hard work and dedication of seafarers," said Benjamin Strong, AMVER Director. "Shipping and commerce continue and so will the AMVER awards."

With more than 8,000 awards to distribute, the AMVER staff is coordinating with U.S. embassies, Propeller Club Ports, and individual companies to ensure they are delivered in a timely manner.

"We are proud to continue the tradition of recognizing the individual accomplishments of seafarers and companies who volunteer in the AMVER system," stated U.S. Coast Guard Commander Auror Fleming, Acting Chief of Search and Rescue.

International shipping legend Clay Maitland summed it up best, "At a time of international crisis, which this clearly is, it is very appropriate that we recognize those maintain the highest standard of safety at sea, who keep the sea lanes open, and who support our rescuers. The AMVER awards represent the link between the U.S. Coast Guard, the seafarers and the world as a whole, and the need to maintain the highest safety values- at all times, under all conditions."

"The U.S. Coast Guard's AMVER awards program recognizes a ship and company's commitment to safety- a theme that is now more important than ever as we confront the COVID-19 outbreak," added Costis J. Frangoulis, President of the International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus.

AMVER awards will be distributed to fleet managers by email To ensure proper delivery we request your vessel registration information is properly updated in the IHS Markit database.

Welcome Wednesday!

If you're a fan of Amver you know we've been bringing you the new participants in one manner or another since we launched a newsletter in 1958. We are thankful of the dedication and devotion to safety at sea from our maritime partners. Thank you for continuing to enroll in Amver and welcome to our latest members!

• EVER BUILD
• TOHOKU MARU
• REFERENCE POINT
• KEY SONORITY
• MARLIN SHIKOKU
• LMZ ATLAS
• PROUD UNITY
• CRYSTAL ANGEL
• ROYAL ARGO
• INDIGO GARLAND
• SEACOR MIXTECA
• UP SAFIRA
• KRITI JADE
• CSC RONG HAI
• TOMINI ENTITY
• BULK SYDNEY
• MSC ORION
• GUSTAVIA S

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Welcome Wednesday!

Who joined Amver this week? Another nine ships, ranging from a container ship, a cruise ship and a platform supply ship. Every week new vessels commit to saving lives at sea. You may be asking yourself why they do this. Isn't there already a global system for search and rescue? Don't all ships at sea hear a distress when it goes out? The answer is complicated.

First, there is no global, dedicated and mandatory search and rescue system. There are several global vessel tracking systems, but they are not for the sole purpose of search and rescue.

Second, not all ships hear a distress call. There is a complex system involving satellites, radios and rescue coordination centers that all play a part in managing a maritime search and rescue case.

Amver participants play a huge part in assisting in a maritime emergency. Because Amver ships volunteer their positions, a search and rescue expert can reasonably expect an Amver participant will assist when called. Additionally, rescue experts have greater detail about Amver ships such as medical equipment and medical personnel.

You and your ships can be part of the solution. You can make search and rescue easier and more effective. You can provide hope. You can enroll in Amver today. Now, help us welcome the latest Amver members.

• VOSTOCHNY VOYAGER
• CREST ARIES 1
• SALAMINA
• SEVEN SEAS SPLENDOR
• OCEAN GOBY
• KALAMOS
• NIGHTSKY
• TORM ELIZABETH
• ULTRA COURAGE

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Welcome Wednesday!

As we roll into 2020 we are happy to continue to tradition of recognizing the latest ships enrolled in Amver. This week there were ten new members of the Amver safety network. Have you joined yet? Help us welcome these ships who ensure no call for help goes unanswered.

• GUO YUAN 32
• RUBINA
• STAR KARLIE
• CIELO DI LONDRA
• STI MIRACLE
• CL YELLOW RIVER
• AESCHYLUS GRAECIA
• ZENITH WIN
• MSC KANOKO
• BALKAN

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