MarEx Mailbag:

This week’s Mailbag contains just a couple of letters. One references our lead editorial from last week and the other, a tongue-in-cheek entry about classifications for submarines.

Last week, our lead piece referenced the maritime agenda in Washington, the importance of that agenda, and the likelihood of any of it coming to fruition. You can read our 11 June editorial, entitled “On the Back Burner (Again)” by clicking HERE. Our first letter today references that editorial. Here’s what our reader had to say:

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Joe,

Regarding "Looking back on last November’s contentious and prolonged presidential and congressional elections, I can’t help but remember the impassioned zeal with which one candidate or another would bestow his or her support for ..." and you can fill in the blank with whatever. My parents told me some candidate promised "a chicken in every pot". Well, they never saw that either. Sadly, business as usual with much of the "public servant" group.

Regards,

John Rice

MarEx Editor’s Remarks: Mr. Rice has written in before. I’m hoping that this year, some sort of miracle will propel us towards progress on any one of the fronts that I outlined last week. I’m not holding my breath.

The next letter references a Bureau Veritas announcement that class rules had been established for submarines. You can read that article by clicking HERE. I got a couple of telephone calls about this one and you can also read what one reader had to say about the matter below:

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Joe:

Interesting article on Submarines classification by Bureau Veritas. With tongue in cheek, have the drug running subs been considered for classification? Last I heard, the drug subs are being seized by the USCG & USN with improved technologies. If there should be an at sea collision with one of these subs by a commercial surface vessel, then legal and economic remedies may not be realized.

Gregory