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IN THIS ISSUE – August 2024

• SCI Welcomes Genco as a New Supporting Sponsor
• ISC Chaplains Expand Their Visits to Seafarers Throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey
• CME Creating e-Learning Content for ARTCo Stevedoring
• Christopher "Kip" Loffler Wraps up Tulane Law/CMA Internship

Above: Chaplain Bill Allport visiting seafarers on the Seaboard Pride at the Redhook Terminal, Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Evan Brown

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ISC Chaplains Expand Their visits to Seafarers throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey

When COVID-19 restrictions were mandated across the Port of New York and New Jersey in 2020, ISC chaplains masked up and limited their ship visits to terminals within Ports Newark and Elizabeth. Now that pandemic limitations have been lifted, SCI Chaplains at the International Seafarers’ Center have resumed visiting seafarers at terminals across the entire port system.

Throughout the year, Chaplain Allport has been visiting seafarers docked at Brooklyn and Staten Island terminals, while Chaplain James Kollin visits those in Yonkers. Both chaplains regularly visit tanker ships and terminals along the Arthur Kill and Bayonne. “These terminals handle smaller ships and are also tucked away in areas without easy transport or accessible needs for seafarers,” says SCI Chaplain Bill Allport. “As a result, unloading is usually quicker, and seafarers spend less time in port, leading to shorter shore leave. And when shore leave is possible, very few options are available.” 

“Many people don’t realize just how vast the Port of New York & New Jersey is,” said SCI President and Executive Director, the Rev’d Mark Nestlehutt. “The port is both geographically expansive and densely developed. While we will continue to visit seafarers whose ships dock near our International Seafarers’ Center in Port Newark, our aim is to extend our ship-visiting efforts throughout the region to pre-pandemic levels. Additionally, we remain committed to expanding our crisis support to international seafarers and domestic mariners wherever and whenever needed, as we did recently with the container ship Dali and its allision with the Key Bridge in Baltimore.”

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For more photos from Chaplain Allport's visit to the container ship Seaboard Pride, click here.

Pictured above: Chaplain Bill Allport visits with seafarers on the container ship Seaboard Pride, docked at the Redhook Terminal in Brooklyn. Pictured below: Chaplain James Collin photographed seafarers from cargo ship Balsa 87 delivering sugar to the Domino Sugar Plant along the Hudson River in Yonkers, New York.

Above and below: Photos of ARTCo's Stevedoring Operations in Destrehan, LA, taken by CME Director Capt. Steven Polk.

CME Creating e-Learning Content for ARTCo Stevedoring

Capt. Stephen Polk, Director of the Center for Maritime Education, spent the week in Destrehan, LA, collaborating with ARTCo to develop custom online training content for their stevedoring operations. ARTCo, a maritime division of Archer Daniels Midland Corp. (ADM), previously partnered with CME in 2023 to create a comprehensive training library for their river mariners in St. Louis.

"This is a crucial aspect of maritime operations, and we were eager to contribute and continue our partnership with ARTCo," said Capt. Polk. "While working at ADM's facility this week, I witnessed stevedores safely and efficiently handling cargo on and off ships. The products moving through this terminal—like salt, iron, and fertilizer—sustain our communities. Although this critical link in the supply chain often goes unnoticed, our nation thrives because of this work. We are proud to be part of developing this training."

CME extends special thanks to Mike Martin Media, the crew of the M/V Louisiana Paradise, and the managers at ARTCo's Destrehan facility for their support. Capt. Polk added, "I am looking forward to the completion of this e-Learning project; it has been wonderful working with everyone."

Christopher "Kip" Loffler wraps up Tulane Law/CMA Internship

For 29 years, SCI's Center for Mariner Advocacy has welcomed students from Tulane University School of Law to intern during their "1L summer." This summer, CMA welcomed Christopher “Kip” Loffler to the longstanding program. Here are a few of the projects in which Kip participated:

• A long-term research project concerning the application of ILO 147 with no more favorable treatment. This project was presented to the United States Coast Guard for consideration.
• Development of a training presentation that will be used to train ship inspectors on the scope of ILO 147, the shipboard issues that are covered by ILO 147, and the actions that can be taken if an ILO 147 violation is discovered.
• A project developing a shore leave survey for seafarers and ship welfare workers was done in conjunction with ICMA. The survey is designed to provide data supporting the proposed shore leave amendments for MLC 2006.
• A visit to New York City, where Kip met with the American P&I Club, the Liberian Ship Registry, SCI Chaplains at the International Seafarers’ Center, seafarers at Port Newark (while on ship visits), and U.S. Coast Guard Sector New York Port State Control Division.  
• Attended meetings with the local maritime partners in the port of New Orleans to see the current issues that both seafarers and shipping companies have within the port.  
• Attended the SCI Board Meeting and met with SCI senior leadership to learn more about the SCI mission and what SCI does for seafarers. 

Kip adds, "I would like to thank SCI for such a great summer experience and all the members of SCI whom I met during my time here. I would like to thank Doug Stevenson for being a great host and setting up a great week in New York. Finally, I would like to give a big thank you to Phil Schifflin for hosting me at the CMA this summer and for his mentorship throughout the program. His work with the Tulane Law School makes the summer at CMA a great program for 1st year law students." 

Kip plans to return to Tulane Law in the fall of 2024 to begin his second year of law school. Kip will also be a member of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal, Treasurer of the Tulane Maritime Law Society, and he returns as the defending champion of the Tulane Law Fantasy Football League. Thank you for joining us, Kip.

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 FROM THE SCI ARCHIVES 

Today marks 128 years since the birth of Robert Albion, Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History and author of one of the most significant histories of New York Harbor, The Rise of New York Port 1815-1860 (1939). In this work, Albion argues that New York's economic ascent was driven more by packet ships and the transshipment of cotton than by the Erie Canal. Albion was photographed speaking at SCI's WWII mural dedication, as featured in the November 1947 issue of The Lookout.



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