Shipbuilders Council v. United States Department of Homeland Security

MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEONIE M. BRINKEMA, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Shipbuilders Council of America, Crowley Maritime Corporation, and Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. filed this action under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C. § 701 et seq., challenging a decision by the United States Coast Guard’s National Vessel Documentation Center (“Coast Guard”) 1 to issue a coastwise endorsement to the oil tanker Seabulk Trader after work was completed on the vessel in a foreign shipyard. 2 The owners of the vessel — Seabulk Energy Transport, Inc. and Seabulk Petroleum Transport, Inc.…