Did Britain sink its shipping industry by waiving the rules?

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UK Chamber of Shipping

By Alex Lennane

31/08/2016

Polly Toynbee, a well-known UK columnist for The Guardian, yesterday ventured away from her normal topic of society, to look at the UK’s shipping industry. While her concern for unpaid crew members of a ship stuck in the tiny port of Great Yarmouth will be shared by the industry, some of her other comments on shipping are likely to be disputed ? such as the success of the Jones Act in supporting a local US industry, as well as the ...

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