• Issues related to US-flag shipping; Maritime Security Program (MSP); cargo preference laws and regulations.
• Issues related to US-flag shipping; Maritime Security Program (MSP); cargo preference laws and regulations; Global Privately-Owned Vehicle Contract (GPC).
• Issues related to US-flag shipping; cargo preference laws and regulations.
• Issues related to US-flag shipping; full funding for Maritime Security Program (MSP) (HR 4745; S 2438).
• Issues related to US-flag shipping; cargo preference laws and regulations; re-charter of Export-Import Bank.

Duration: October 11, 2007 to August 8, 2014

General Issues: Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Defense, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Budget/Appropriations, Banking, Transportation, Trucking/Shipping, Foreign Relations, Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $810,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Maritime Administration (MARAD), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Senate, House of Representatives, Defense, Dept of (DOD), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), State - Dept of (DOS), Energy - Dept of, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Maritime Administration (MARAD),