Entries for 'Michael Hansen'

...American Samoa seeks federal avaition cabotage waiver....

...National conservative advocates for Jones Act on national security basis....

“...this high level of service should provide better access and lower logistics costs for Asian goods....”

...the dedicated Asia–Hawaii Express will be upgraded from a fortnightly service to a weekly sailing starting in July 2017....

“Regarding our ability to retrieve energy, we don’t need anybody. Transportation may be our biggest impediment.”

...reporting on the expiration of two maritime union contracts with Matson....

...APL Ltd. will inaugurate a direct Asia / Hawaii with the first vessel arrival to Honolulu scheduled on Sunday, August  13, 2017....

...there is nothing in the public record that would indicate Admiral Buzby’s views on national maritime policy....

...the need for the Jones Act is sensibly being questioned and challenged as never before....

Pasha faces the more immediate need to renew its fleet, which still has four steamships over 30 years old....

...New Anacortes-built trawler could be grounded by old law, endangering two Washington State firms....

...This is an important development for many shippers in Hawaii and Guam because it further places the supposed opportunity to take advantage of these international services to the islands out of reach....

...The SAMOANA is a fully cellular containership built in 2015 in China....

...Local shipyard Marisco Ltd. said the ship and its cargo — a dry dock 454 feet long and 150 feet wide — are expected to arrive today....

...Matson tried to hide it, but....

...One compromise could exempt Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico from the American-built ship requirement....

...advocating for additional changes in federal and local regulations to improve Puerto Rico’s economy....

...While the act harms all Americans, some consumers are more acutely affected — such as non-contiguous states like Alaska and Hawaii and American territories like Puerto Rico....

...those in the U.S. maritime industry (or, the “Jones Act industry”) demand conformity from their fellows in support of the protectionist policies, and how difficult it’s to speak-out against them....

U.S. federal laws and regulations impacting waterborne shipping increased approximately 200% from 1970 to 2014....

“McDew testified that the U.S. military cargo ship fleet is "aging out" and asked Congress to approve the purchase of used commercial vessels....

...Revocation of the rulings would close a loophole that allows the use of non-Jones Act eligible vessels to support the offshore industry....

...there is new criticism of the Food for Peace program and the requirement that much of the food aid be grown in the U.S. and transported on U.S. flag ships....

The work stoppage was in apparent violation of the contract between the Hawaii Stevedore industry and the ILWU....

The first two wharfage increases of 17% and 15% on February 1st and October 1st respectively will result in a 34.5% increase in 2017 on a compound basis....

...the cumulative effect is a 54.8% increase in Wharfage rates....

...asking Harbors to release the financial information that would justify the need for a wharfage rate increase....

In the meantime the freight rates for Jones Act tankers to carry the petroleum products to the Northeast have reportedly doubled....

...container-on-barge shuttle service between the State’s Honolulu Harbor and Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor (KBPH) could eliminate much of the truck traffic on the H-1....

...a feasibility study of various intra-island and interisland ferry services....

...Horizon Line Inc. covered up unsafe conditions on the Jones Act containership HORIZON TRADER employed in the Puerto Rico trade....

"This plainly is the outgrowth of industry lobbying to get CBP to take Jones Act enforcement more seriously."

the USS GERALD R FORD (CVN-78) is far behind schedule, not ready for deployment, and may need to be redesigned....

With this new service, Matson will be competing with several shipping companies offering direct services from the USWC to South Pacific Island destinations....

...Center for the National Interest is associated with the realist school of foreign policy thought....

The Federal Register published on June 6, 2016, an announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) stating that they would be establishing a National Multimodal Freight Network....

...Bay Ferries, will employ THE CAT between Portland, Maine, USA, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, a distance of 185 n miles. That is roughly comparable to the distance between Honolulu and Kawaihae....

...Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis Rooted in History of Feds’ Anti-Trade Policies....

...the connection between the Jones Act, the age of the ship, and likely causes the ship was lost....

SEA Europe is seeking through the TTIP negotiations a treaty exemption in U.S. Jones Act....

The LCS program is indicative of the problems with U.S. shipbuilding both military and commercial with high costs, poor quality and an inability to deliver on schedule....

After a decade of ILWU disruption, shippers are routing more cargo through U.S. Gulf and East Coast ports....

...South Korea’s three big shipbuilders received “zero” newbuild ship orders during April 2016....

...To say this is uncompetitive in the modern world is a vast understatement....

"How old is an old ship?”

...Matson Q1 profits shrink 27.6% on weak demand for Chinese cargo....