Last week, Japan gathered world maritime security leaders in Tokyo for the first-ever Coast Guard Global Summit. Even without the U.S. Coast Guard’s headline-grabbing search and rescue operations in ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has accepted delivery of the 62nd Fast Response Cutter, USCGC Vincent Danz (WPC 1162), in Key West.Danz was serving in the New York City Police Department, Emergency Services Unit ...

U.S. agencies have intensified maritime drug-interdiction efforts, expanding enforcement under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and increasing pressure on commercial vessels targeted by drug ...

Rear Adm. Peter Gautier, deputy commander of U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area and Rear Adm. Charles Fosse, director of Joint Interagency Task Force-West, speak with Rear Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan, commander ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Police go through extensive training on defense tactics and hand-to-hand combat on land, but maritime training teaches officers to fight crime in the water. The nation's only ...

On December 20, 2025 the USCG in coordination with the War Department executed a operation to seize the Motor Tanker Centuries, which is suspected of carrying oil subject to U.S. sanctions. (Photo: ...

The unusual call came in about 4:30 a.m.: a small, speeding vessel was heading toward a nearby beach. For two sheriff’s deputies on patrol aboard a fire boat in Newport Harbor, a placid early morning ...

At the inauguration of the new chief of Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency (BAKAMLA) in February 2020, Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo expressed hope ‘that BAKAMLA will be the embryo of an ...

US and Philippine ships during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines 2014. Credit: Flickr/US Navy Photo The United States has been boosting aid to four Southeast Asian states ...

China passed a law on January 22, which will come into force on February 1, that for the first time explicitly specifies the conditions under which the Chinese coast guard would be allowed to use ...

Senior leaders from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Australian Federal Police signed a Memorandum of Understanding Friday at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters to highlight common missions, interests, ...