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> To split hairs, your comment is not true for all containerships, just for ships that are not U.S.-owned. The Jones Act requires ships transporting goods betw
by duskwuff 4y ago
> To split hairs, your comment is not true for all containerships, just for ships that are not U.S.-owned.
The Jones Act requires ships transporting goods between two US ports to be US-owned, and US-built, and US-crewed -- which, I'm pretty certain, excludes all container ships. Certainly all of the big ones.
- mojomark 4y agoWell, there are a handful (1), but I do agree it's not enough to move the needle much. The point of this particular Jones Act comment is that if you had distributed/scalable transport vessels (like trains), vice monolithic transport vessels, then you open the container vessel construction market to say U.S. tier 3 shipyards (these yards build smaller vessels compared to a tier 1 yard that could build a containership - maybe not a megacontainership, I'm not sure). You could readily supply container vessels, just as a smaller manufacturer can build train cars. 1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/646259/us-flag-oceangoing-privately-owned-jones-act-fleet-by-type/#:~:text=As%20of%20December%2015%2C%202019,%2Downed%2C%20and%20%2Dregistered https://www.statista.com/statistics/646259/us-flag-oceangoin....