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It's pointless, because it failed miserably to do anything. It failed to account for the fact that most of internal US freight transport is ground or air. It
by JAlexoid 4y ago
It's pointless, because it failed miserably to do anything.
It failed to account for the fact that most of internal US freight transport is ground or air.
It lived in some ideal world where Florida to New York is cheaper to deliver via freight ship, than a rail line.
At the time of drafting it was already based in an imaginary world.
- shagie 4y agoOther laws cover air and land transport. Try taking a Ryanair or Air China flight from New York to San Francisco. Try getting CP Rail to deliver from Florida to New York or Bison Transport to deliver from Minneapolis to Houston. The Jones Act covers foreign carriers between US maritime ports. There are indeed problems with it and the amount of investment that the US, as a nation, has invested and retained in building and staffing ships that could be complaint with the Jones Act. It goes both ways - and the problem is not solely with the law.
- JAlexoid 4y agoGeneral laws, requiring that business conducted in US is conducted with residency laws taken into account is not the same as everything listed in Jone's Act.