Will pigs fly before the Jones Act changes?
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The extraordinary story of seafood shipper American Seafoods Co, which transports fish and other seafoods from Alaska to customers in the US east coast region. To circumvent Jones Act regulations, which forbids non-US shipping lines from carrying domestic cabotage cargo from one US port to another, American Seafoods has been sending its shipments on foreign-flagged vessels via the Panama Canal to Canada’s Atlantic coast, and then transporting overland to the US. The company argues that the practice is perfectly legitimate. ...
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Mark Brage
September 09, 2021 at 1:27 pmThere is an easy to understand solution for American Seafoods to remedy their violations: hire or purchase Jones Act certified ships. This need not be a complicated case to resolve.