TWIC, Transportation Idenification Card. IS required for all of us who have to work on commerical vessels and to enter the ports where your vessel is moored. The people who work in those ports have to have one also. And at $135 US to me it is another tax. And if you don't have one, you need to be escorted everywhere in that port. And that is not the Escort service you find in the big cities.
Photos, fingerprinted and a computer chipped card. FBI back ground check and so forth...
This is on top of our USCG documents & Licenses... And those fees are $145 US
And we call this country the Land of the Free???
Yeah Right!?
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