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What about a temporary, emergency suspension of the Jones Act for select flagged vessels? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 https://en.
by Ajay-p 5y ago
What about a temporary, emergency suspension of the Jones Act for select flagged vessels?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
- yuliyp 5y agoWhat would suspending the Jones Act do? The container ships are foreign ships already.
- thephyber 5y agoThe Jones Act prevents (or fines; I’m not clear) non-American made,owned,manned ships from going from US port to US port. Suspending the Jones Act would be relevant to foreign made,owned,manned ships except I’m not clear that there is need or desire for these cargo ships to go from clogged US port to clogged US port. The big profits are in racing back to China to get fully loaded.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> What about a temporary, emergency suspension of the Jones Act for select flagged vessels? The Jones Act applies to shipping between US ports, which isn’t the issue, and suspending the Jones Act would allow more ships on internal runs, but the problem is that we have too little port capacity for import runs, so it solves something that is, in a couple different dimensions, completely the wrong problem.
- BurningFrog 5y agoThe Jones act it's terrible and should always be repealed! But it's hard to see that it affects this problem much.