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All TWIC Enrollment Sites Are Now Open and Ready for Business

Press release: Sept. 17, 2008TSA Public Affairs: (571) 227-2829WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced that all Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) fixed enrollment sites are open and ready for worker registration. Port and longshore workers, truckers and others nationwide are now able to enroll in the Department of Homeland Security’s TWIC program [...]

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September 21, 2008 Read the full article →

Bill to exempt some mariners from TWIC

Senator Coleman (R-MN) introduced the Small Marine Business and Fishing Guide Relief Act of 2008 (S. 3377) to amend title 46, United States Code, to waive the biometric transportation security card requirement for certain small business merchant mariners, and for other purposes. This bill, if enacted into law, would exempt from the requirement for a [...]

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August 4, 2008 Read the full article →

TWIC Deadline extended to April 2009

The DHS issued this statement today: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced that the finalcompliance date for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)program will be April 15, 2009, which reflects a realignment of the Sept. 25,2008 compliance date set in the final rule. The seven month extension is adirect result of collaboration [...]

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May 2, 2008 Read the full article →

TWIC confusion continues

OMG! How can this TWIC issue be so full of confusion? Somebody read my blog post “Does My Boat Need a TWIC?” and mis-interpreted it to mean that he and his captains didn’t need to get TWIC cards…. The purpose of my post about boats was to point out that most marine assistance vessels will [...]

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May 2, 2008 Read the full article →

No TWIC for homeless guy

Does this kind of stuff make you crazy too? I gotta have a TWIC card, even though I never have to enter a secure area, meanwhile, some homeless bum takes a nap inside a Unitied Parcel Service cargo plane that is parked in a secure area of an airport, and they just write him a [...]

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April 19, 2008 Read the full article →

Does My Boat Need a Secure Area?

Someone asked me to research the new TWIC rules to find out if our assistance towboats would need to comply with the new security rules. Its not actually the TWIC rules that govern vessel security, it was all set forth by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002, which is the Act that imposed the [...]

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April 6, 2008 Read the full article →

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