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.