Maritime Administration
The Maritime Administration was established by Reorganization Plan No. 21 of 1950 (5 U.S.C. app.).
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 711
- −10.2% in a year
- Rule open for comment
- 1
- Next closes Nov 23
- Rules made final this year
- 5
- 2 proposed
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 190
- 2019 to 2026
What it is deciding now
5 rules made final and 2 proposed this year. Anyone can comment on a proposal until its period closes.
- Nov23Capital Construction Fund RevisionComments close · MARAD
Open for comment
Closing soonest first.
- Capital Construction Fund RevisionCloses in 21 days
Where its power comes from
An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.
Laws it carries out
The U.S. Code sections its rules of the last six years cite as their authority, most cited first.
Its rulebook
Where the rules it wrote these six years sit in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Track record
What it made final, the cases it brought, and where Congress moved to undo its work.
Latest final rules
The newest rules it made final.
- Vessel and Shipyard Financing, Regulatory RevisionAug 28
- Tanker Security ProgramJun 23
- Seamen's Claims; Administrative Action and LitigationJun 5
- Establishing United States Citizenship for MARAD Program Participation; Simplifying the Application ProcessJun 4
- American Fisheries Act Program Update; Simplifying the Application ProcessJun 4
Who runs it
Its leaders
- Stephen CarmelAdministrator of the Maritime Administration
Who pays to be heard
- General Dynamics Corp$91.5M on reports naming it
- National Retail Federation$64.6M on reports naming it
- Transportation Trades Department Afl-Cio$10.2M on reports naming it
- Stephen CarmelAdministrator of the Maritime Administration
- Department of TransportationThe department it sits in
- General Dynamics CorpLobbied it, $91.5M
- National Retail FederationLobbied it, $64.6M
- Transportation Trades Department Afl-CioLobbied it, $10.2M
- American Maritime PartnershipLobbied it, $9.81M
Its leaders
The people the Senate last confirmed to its offices, one record per office. A confirmation date is not proof someone still serves.
Who tries to sway it
Who names it on federal lobbying reports, 2019 to 2026, and who used to work there. Naming an agency is the filer’s account of where work was aimed, not a record of a meeting.
Who pays to be heard
The biggest spenders on reports that name it. A report names several issues, so each figure is the whole report.
- General Dynamics Corp$91.5M
- National Retail Federation$64.6M
- Transportation Trades Department Afl-Cio$10.2M
- American Maritime Partnership$9.81M
- Liberty Maritime Corporation$5.27M
- Phillips 66$4.5M
- Ocean Conservancy$4.44M
- Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association$4.36M
- Siemens Corporation$3.84M
- American Maritime Officers$3.56M
- American Association of Port Authorities$3.5M
- American President Lines, LLC$3.44M
- National Association of Manufacturers$3.37M
- Matson Navigation$2.84M
- South Florida Admiralty Trial Lawyers Association$2.7M
- National Association of Waterfront Employers$2.54M
- Saltchuk Resources, Inc.$2.53M
- Dominion Energy, Inc.$2.36M
- Crowley Maritime Corporation$2.2M
- Enterprise Products Partners LP (Formerly Known as Enterprise Products Company O$2.13M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- K&L Gates, LLP17 clients
- Blank Rome Government Relations10 clients
- Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh LLC6 clients
- Robertson, Monagle, & Eastaugh LLC6 clients
- Carlough Solutions, LLC5 clients
- Smith Advocacy Group, LLC4 clients
- PHB Public Affairs4 clients
- Adams and Reese, LLP4 clients
- Holland & Knight LLP3 clients
- Van Scoyoc Associates3 clients
- Desimone Consulting, LLC3 clients
- Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.3 clients
- Carpi & Clay, Inc.3 clients
- Cassidy & Associates, Inc.3 clients
- Ridge Path Strategies2 clients
- Owen Evans Ingols2 clients
- Otterson LLC2 clients
- Elevate Government Affairs, LLC2 clients
- Jones Walker, LLP2 clients
- CFM Strategic Communications (Conkling Fiskum & Mccormick)2 clients
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.
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