Jones Act

Like price fixing, 'thought leadership' is a pretty good gig...until you get caught....

...Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico lawmakers say the U.S. ship build requirement of the Jones Act is a major contributor to the high cost of living in their locations....

Souki (D) was among the group who introduced HR 113 and HCR 153, which note that the Act, "disproportionately imposes an economic burden on and adversely affects Hawaii."....

...Sea Star Line is a subsidiary of TOTE Inc., the ocean shipping group of Saltchuk Resources Inc., which also owns and operates Young Bros....

In 2012 Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and Columbia University Business School Professor visited Hawaii....

When a law has as broad a reach as the Jones Act does, you’re likely to run into it in some unlikely places....

Matson is increasing its already high shipping rates yet again....

...from 34.5% to 39.5% for its Hawaii service, and from 36.5% to 41.5% for its Guam/CNMI and Micronesia services, effective March 23....

The only thing that we’ve been able to define as an American flag vessel would take us a month to get the salt here....

...The Hawaii Shippers’ Council made history on Wednesday, January 29, 2014, by becoming the first party to testify before a committee of the Puerto Rico Senate via Skype....

... Reuters' Jack Kemp looks at the Jones Act and the national security arguments used to defend it ....

The 2014 Hawaii Legislature will be requested to consider passage of a resolution on reforming the Jones Act....

Hawaii and the Pacific territories rely more heavily on ocean shipping....

My first transportation wish for 2014: Hawaii needs a motorcycle helmet law....

...sentenced to federal prison for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by colluding on ocean freight rates and in cargo allocation schemes....

...to ship a 40-foot container from Los Angeles to Shanghai is $790. Matson, Hawaii’s largest carrier, charges $8,700 to ship that same container from Los Angeles to Honolulu....

A federal district court jury is scheduled to decide late next year whether or not the ocean carriers Matson Inc. (MATX) and Horizon Lines Inc. (HRZL) defrauded the United States of America in connection with military cargo shipments they carried in the Hawaii and Guam trades....

Can Puerto Rico Change the Jones Act? - Mike Hansen intervewed ....

The purpose of the study is to review three recent reports and determine what changes are needed in the law so as improve the island’s economy....

They keep our shipping rates the highest in the world, far exceeding the cost of the extra miles and fuel...

The Coast Guard has created safety zones within the commercial harbors of the main Hawaiian Islands that will require evacuation if a tsunami warning is issued....

The subpoena was revealed Thursday in a report obtained by Watchdog.org from the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission....

Several popular Jones Act notions circulating around Hawaii simply are not true....

He also stated that customer rates would not be affected by the incident....

Friday October 4, 6:00pm, at the Naniloa Hotel Crown Room in Hilo....

...the state would need to rely upon liquefied natural gas (LNG) brought in from the U.S. mainland ... to mitigate the high costs associated with generating electricity from liquid petroleum fuels....

...any law or set of laws that work against the public interest will give rise to chink-in-the-armor attacks by other, competing special interests....

MARAD could not provide documentation showing who developed the various port project estimates or explain why they doubled over time....

...create a limited exemption from the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act allowing foreign-built ships to transport bulk cargoes the domestic Puerto Rico trade...

Jacksonville, Florida, brings in coal from Colombia rather than West Virginia.....

The airline industry, whose largest expense is fuel, is also behind the structural change in the legislation that would allow foreign-made vessels to transport on U.S. waters....

Hawaii, which had been among the top ten states in previous studies, fell from 8th in 2008, to 11th in 2009, and now to 13th in 2012....

Grassroot Institute President Keli'i Akina interviews Hawaii Shippers Council President Michael Hansen....

“Any action that weakens the protectionism of the Jones Act will ultimately be to the long-term benefit of U.S. shipping.”

If the Alliance wants their report to become a basis for public policy making, we must insist that the Alliance report become part of the public domain....

"My goals are to expand the universe of vessels that can transport natural gas and other fuel products from the U.S. to Puerto Rico to help reduce the cost of electricity...."

60% of all shipbuilding and repairing revenue is from U.S. military sources....

When asked about the high price of living in Hawaii, people often retort with the fatalistic, “That’s the price of living in paradise.”  Dr. Keli’i Akina does not agree....