Last week, the Transportation Security Administration began nationwide implementation of a highly anticipated program that reforms the unnecessarily burdensome process by which mariners and other transportation workers receive required Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC). The TWIC OneVisit program eliminates the requirement that workers make two trips to a TWIC enrollment center to pick up and then activate their TWIC. In a press release, AWO President & CEO Tom Allegretti called the nationwide OneVisit rollout a victory for the nation’s maritime employees, stating that “full-scale implementation is the result of five years of grassroots outreach and bipartisan Congressional leadership to reform an inefficient government mandate that hurt working Americans. We extend our deep gratitude to Congressional leaders of both parties who fought to make this program a reality.”