OCTOBER 2017 • FOGHORN 35 NEWSWIRE WE LIVE AND BREATHE pAssENgER VEssELs, THAT’s THE KEY TO OUR sUCCEss Anders Rundberg, CEO of Carus We care about your customers Carus offers innovative solutions for the global passenger vessel industry, giving your customers a better experience before, during and after their journey. The Carus solution incorporates ticketing, reservations, check-in, port automation, on-board and relationship management. www.carus.com records, exercise records, Declaration of Security, etc. as required by regu- lations and the ASP. 4. Provide instruction to company personnel with security responsi- bilities on the applicable revisions to the ASP. Review changes to actions required at different MARSEC levels. This instruction will count as one of the three drills required annually and shall be documented in the ASP. 5. Inform the Coast Guard: • If the company does not have a copy of the original letter(s) sent to the Coast Guard indicating use of the PVA ASP, provide a list of covered vessels to the Coast Guard Marine Safety Center as per the template provided in the ASP. • Notify the local Coast Guard Captain of the Port of any changes to facility vulnerabilities and countermeasures using CG Form 6025. 6. Remove and destroy all outdated in- formation associated with previous versions of the ASP. Remember, this needs to be completed by December 12, 2017, so start the process now. If you are a seasonal operator and will be shutting down before December 12, you need to complete the implementation before you shut down. PVA staff will provide an ASP im- plementation presentation at our region meetings as well as the convention. We want to thank the members of the ASP Revision Team for their insight and contributions to the project. The team members were Dave Anderson, Larry Ferreira, Gary Frommelt, Greg Gifford, Tom McElroy, and Richard Paine, Jr. If you have any questions or need assistance with the ASP, feel free to contact me or Jen Wilk on the PVA staff. n Eric Christensen echristensen@passengervessel.com 1-800-807-8360 ext. 26 Jen Wilk jwilk@passengervessel.co 1-800-807-8360 ext. 24 Coast Guard Seeks Members to Review Merchant Mariner Exam The National Maritime Center issued a bulletin on September 7, announc- ing that it is soliciting résumés from interested parties for membership on a work group charged with reviewing the Merchant Mariner examination.  PVA encourages members to apply for this important work group by November 10. For more specific information about this vital working group, go to www. dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/NMC/pdfs/announcements/2017/section_315_ working_group_website_solicitation_090617.pdf, or, contact PVA’s Eric Christensen at echristensen@passengervessel.com, 1-800-807-8360 x 26 for details. n