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> Then there's a desire to maintain some domestic shipping and ship building industry from a national security standpoint and from the goal of protecting the en
by thrower123 6y ago
> Then there's a desire to maintain some domestic shipping and ship building industry from a national security standpoint and from the goal of protecting the environment immediately around the US.
This is the original purpose of the law, but it has failed completely and utterly. At some point you have to stand back and survey what the actual results of legislation are, as opposed to the intended results, and if those two aren't in any way congruent, scrap things and start over.
- vkou 6y agoIt only 'really failed' Puerto Rico. Airlines have similar rules, yet I never see people grousing that you can't take an Air Malay flight from Chicago to LA.
- jjk166 6y agoThe domestic ship building industry imploded. America is an economic empire built on maritime shipping with only one remaining commercial shipyard capable of producing large vessels, and it is being kept alive with government contracts.
- vkou 6y agoThat has everything to do with lower cost of labour overseas. Without the requirement for US ships to go from one US port to another, the shipbuilding industry would still be dead, and you'd have a dead shipping industry with it. You would have foreign-flagged crews moving cargo with foreign-built ships, against which you'd have zero recourse, in the event of disaster.