NOLA to host navigation session

The Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Army Corps of Engineers will hold 2014 discussions on navigational aid technology and how it will affect the future of America's waterways. New Orleans will host one of those Future of Navigation-21st Century Waterways sessions on May 7 at 1350 Port of New Orleans Place. The venues are for open communications between federal agencies and U.S. Maritime Transportation System stakeholders to discuss joint federal initiatives to use technology to support a safe, efficient, secure and environmentally-sound marine transport system. The public listening sessions are to provide the maritime communities and waterways stakeholders with opportunities to express emerging needs for navigational information and service systems necessary to improve the f transiting of the nation's waterways. For additional information contact Lt. Torrey Jacobsen at (202) 372-1543. (Source: Coast Guard, 05/01/14)