The National Maritime Center issued an information bulletin to provide the merchant mariner community an update on the current status of processing times and to inform mariners and employers on how they can help to get net processing times back to under 30 days.

View the information bulletin for full details on how mariners can improve processing times and read about how recent STCW final rules and information technology issues have impacted processing times.

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