In an op-ed for National Defense Magazine, AWO’s President & CEO Jennifer Carpenter discusses the many contributions the American tugboat, towboat and barge industry makes to our nation’s security, and the critical role of the Jones Act in making those contributions possible. Read the full piece here.

Read about the Coast Guard’s release of a policy letter on Subchapter M enforcement, grassroots AWO advocates’ defense of the Jones Act in West Virginia, and more in this edition of the AWO letter.