Entries for 'Michael Hansen'

... Finland Price, $139M / Mississippi Price $1B .....

A key provision of the FEGP is to seek a full exemption from Jones Act cabotage for Puerto Rico....

The US territories cannot vote in the presidential election, but are able to vote in selecting a candidate for the Republican and Democratic parties in their local caucuses....

...the recent dispute between dockworkers and marine terminal operators at West Coast ports took almost nine months to resolve....

The Krueger Report emphasized the need for Puerto Rico to be exempted from Jones Act....

Congressman Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, is seeking solutions to the Puerto Rico financial crisis....

...And there aren’t that many shipyards left....

HTA has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a cruise development consultant....

Trade negotiations offer a chance to modernize U.S. ports....

... Paul Krugman commenting on the Puerto Rico financial crisis ....

The only real answer is a coordinated, unified, and well-reasoned effort to persuade Congress to repeal or modernize this relic from a bygone century....

This is the same issue that spurred the founding in Hawaii of the Jones Act Reform Coalition (JARC) in the mid-1990’s....

The Resolution was passed on July 8th by the European Parliament with 436 yes votes....

...the Puerto Rico financial crisis has revived the Jones Act debate....

" ... Lawmakers should allow non-American ships to carry goods between the island and the mainland .... "

Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced the Commonwealth will not be able to pay its $72 billion outstanding debt....

A prominent European politician has urged the region's shipowners to get behind important trade talks....

European maritime industry trade groups are seeking several specific exemptions from U.S. maritime cabotage provisions....

the Canadian government lifted an import duty of 25 percent on foreign-built ships in 2011....

...From 43 percent of global shipping in 1950, the Department of Transportation found in 2009 that “U.S.-flag ships carry only about 1.5 percent of the foreign trade of the United States.”....

The Heritage Foundation offers a seven point recovery plan for the next president of the United States....

"I don't think we should get all agitated and upset when there's an effort to look at the Jones Act," Murkowski said....

There are several State regulatory issues that need to be resolved prior to attempting to establish a Hawaii interisland ferry and are at least as important as the technical modeling, facilities and feasibility considerations....

"...No one can predict when that will happen — five days, seven days, two weeks — but the ports will soon grind to a halt...."

Mike Hansen, President of the Hawaii Shippers Council (HSC) interviewed by K57 Guam’s leading talk radio host Ray Gibson....

...McCain’s instant amendment would be a rider to the Keystone Pipeline legislation....

With the cost of U.S. newbuildings now five times that of constructing comparable ships in South Korea and Japan, Horizon could not afford to build new Jones Act ships....

From the point of view of shipping, there are several issues which will impinge on HECO’s planning to transition from liquid petroleum fuels to LNG....

...a major gubernatorial candidate in the general election has endorsed the Hawaii Shippers’ Council’s noncontiguous trades Jones Act reform proposal....

...Potentially, consumers in Hawaii and Alaska could pick up the tab for Obamacare excise tax....

...Hawaii Shippers Council discussed its noncontiguous trades Jones Act reform proposal and related issues on Guam’s leading radio talk show....

The Hawaii Republican Party meeting in convention on May 17, 2014, adopted eight platform resolutions including one calling for Jones Act reform....

What might be the situation if one or both refineries closed ....

...calling on Guam’s Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo (GU-D) to introduce federal legislation exempting the noncontiguous jurisdictions of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico from the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act....

...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....

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

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....

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....

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

...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....

...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...

“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....

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

Built in Poland in 1988, the NATIONAL GLORY was seized and confiscated in a 2008 drug bust by the U.S. Government and later sold at auction to U.S. owners....