Haiti quake highlights fears over coast guard

SERIOUS maintenance issues on ageing cutters that affected the US Coast Guard’s (USCG) ability to launch a swift seaborne response to the Haiti earthquake have underlined the need for the US Congress not to starve the agency of modernisation funding, USCG Commandant Admiral Thad Allen has said.

While offering full support to President Barack Obama’s pared-back 2011 budget for the agency, which will see 773 positions cut, Adm Allen said he hoped future budgets would honour the multi-year asset acquisition funding estimates that were submitted since the...

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