Jones Act

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

... Justice Department has demanded the arrest, condemnation and sale of the tugboat Maulani, which snagged an undersea cable in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and shut down the Electronic Harbor Security System ....

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....

...making the shipping more expensive and thereby directly adding to the cost of living....

...U.S. companies that assemble oceangoing vessels rely heavily on foreign parts, foreign investment and foreign shipbuilding expertise....

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....

...An economic boon for the territory—and for Hawaii—would be an exemption from the antiquated Jones Act governing shipping from U.S. ports....

...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....

Puerto Rico’s recent bankruptcy, the Jones Act, and how this could affect us here in Hawaii....

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....

...The principles applicable to the California petroleum market without doubt similarly impact Hawaii....

... in the persons of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders ....

...it is becoming increasingly difficult to defend Jones Act cabotage on the basis of economics and so the pro-Jones Act interests are retreating to national defense....

“The value of the Jones Act fleet: $4.6 billion?”

...Free market think tank says study should include effects of a Jones Act exemption....

...long awaited Congressional legislation to address the Commonwealth’s financial crisis....

...a dispute about starting times....

...The Jones Act pays off — in politics....

...Requires the department of transportation to conduct a feasibility study of establishing an interisland ferry system....

After the local press hullabaloo....

Mizuno decided the bill was necessary after Matson raised its rates by 5 percent for goods shipped to Hawaii at the end of November. This came after the company had reported a 93 percent jump in profits....

While Hawaii goes the other way....

...negative public opinion being generated by TOTE officials seemingly callous testimony....

The LCS were originally projected to cost around US $90 million each in 2001, when the program was being conceived. Bloomberg reported in January 2016 the LCS have cost on average about $440 million each....

Exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act is the single most important step Congress can take....

Senator John S. McCain (R-AZ) submitted on January 28, 2016, legislation to eliminate certain domestic build requirements of the Jones Act....

...studies invariable degenerate into preachy Gospel-like statements parroting back talking points from whichever side commissioned the particular economic study....

The cost of merchant ship construction in the U.S. is approximately five times that of building comparable ships in South Korea and Japan....

Jack P. Suyderhoud, Professor of Business Economics and Director of the MBA Program, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, answering a question about the Jones Act....

There is no estimated date of completion to the repairs....

Daewoo designed the Marlin Class containerships, built the main engines, and arranged the supply of much of the equipment installed on board. DSME engineers were on board for the sea trials....

...the ship that was supposed to arrive in Anchorage on Sunday never made it further than the port in Tacoma, Wash.....

Cong Perluisi stated there “. . . . are eight constructive steps the federal government could take,” including the need to “update the Existing Jones Act LNG and LPG Exemption in Puerto Rico” ....

Hawaii Business Magazine published in its January 2016 issue an article entitled “Change Agents” profiling four Hawaiian activists and describing their visions for Hawaii....

Kelii Akina and Mike Hansen discuss the Jones Act and its implications for the economy of Hawaii....

...a labor dispute over the manning of the U.S. Flag containership APL GUAM which is scheduled to provide regular liner service between Yokohama, Japan, Apra Harbor, Guam, and Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands....

Outlawing international competition is advantageous to U.S. ship builders, but is very costly to every other industry in America....

A primary rationale for the domestic ship build requirement of Jones Act cabotage – which requires commercial vessels in coastwise service be built in the US. -- is to support Naval shipbuilding capacity....

...U.S. Navy’s newest ship suffered a main engine causality on her maiden voyage and had to be towed 40 nautical miles to port....