On March 23, 2022, at the request of the CMTS COVID-19 Working Group (C19 WG), the Coordinating Board approved standing down the C19 WG. The work of the C19 WG will be maintained on this website and many of the documents will be permanently available at the National Transportation Library CMTS Collection. Important topics started under the C19 WG, were transferred to a new Mariner and Workforce Integrated Action Team (Workforce IAT). These include mariner mental health; recruitment and retention; DEI; and military to mariner.
The C19 WG was established in September 2020 and served as the CMTS forum for facilitating high-level interagency discussion, communication, and actions in support of the MTS under and after COVID-19.
COVID-19 Working
Participating Agencies
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- Federal Maritime Commission
- Maritime Administration (MARAD)
- Military Sealift Command (MSC)
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
- National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- U.S. Department of State (DOS)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Secretary (OST)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
- U.S. Transportation Command (USTC)
Areas of Focus
- Navigable Waterways
- Physical and Information Infrastructure
- Vessel Operations and Response Services
- The Human Element and U.S. Arctic Communities
- Facilitate interagency communications and stakeholder engagement
- Review federal policies, regulatory practices and guidance impacting safe, effective and efficient operation of the MTS under and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Review and provide comments on MTS industry developed COVID-19 Best Practices and Resources.
- Share and improve resources for addressing U.S. merchant mariner mental health and safety.
- Assess MTS performance under and after COVID-19 pandemic and develop lessons learned.