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At 0730 hours this morning Foss Tugs\u00a0Alta June, Bo Brusco,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Arthur Foss<\/em>, along with Foss sister company AMNAV providing the tug\u00a0Patricia Ann<\/em>, met the\u00a0USNS Mercy<\/em>at the port\u2019s \u201cAngels Gate\u201d entrance. The tugs escorted her to a security sweep location before finally assisting her into the Port of Los Angeles Berth 93, where she will remain for the foreseeable future.\u00a0The vessel was declared \u201cAll Fast\u201d to the dock at 0930 hours.<\/p>\n \u201cFoss is proud and honored to assist this important vessel into port,\u201d said Paul Hendriks, General Manager of the Foss Southern California Office said. \u201cLeading the way was Captains John Strunk, Ryan San Jose, Stan Sato and Drew Kerlee (AMNAV), who have a combined 85 years of experience providing safe operations in the harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n Foss Maritime has a long history of service to U.S. Government agencies in time of national crises, including FEMA, U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), U.S. Transcom, SDDC and USAID.\u00a0The Foss \u201cAlways Safe. Always Ready.\u201d motto has been called upon often over the past decade with response and service efforts following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 (food aid and port reconstruction), Hurricane Sandy in 2012 (operating pumps and generators) and Hurricanes Maria and Erma in Puerto Rico in 2017 (utility truck delivery and deployment of three accommodation vessels).<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we are happy to see the\u00a0USNS Mercy<\/em>docked at the port ready to serve, we hope her stay is a short one which would indicate that the medical crisis is subsiding and the shoreside medical community can care for those impacted by the COVID-19 virus\u201d said Hendriks.\u00a0\u201cThe medical assistance the\u00a0USNS Mercy<\/em>\u00a0has provided to impoverished communities around the world for the past 45 years has been nothing but life changing for the tens of thousands of patients they\u2019ve treated.\u00a0She is truly a beacon of hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 0730 hours this morning Foss Tugs\u00a0Alta June, Bo Brusco,\u00a0and\u00a0Arthur Foss, along with Foss sister company AMNAV providing the tug\u00a0Patricia Ann, met the\u00a0USNS Mercyat the port\u2019s \u201cAngels Gate\u201d entrance. The tugs escorted her to a security sweep location before finally assisting her into the Port of Los Angeles Berth 93, where she will remain for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3854,2612,41,3524,953,3456],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-assists","tag-foss","tag-maritime","tag-mercy","tag-port","tag-usns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}