jones act

JAXPORT officials were all smiles Tuesday as they reported a record-setting 2019 and a funding win for the harbor-deepening project that remains two years ahead of schedule. More than 450 people attended the sold-out State of the Port 2020 event in Jacksonville, Florida, hosted by the Propeller...

U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, has introduced three related bills in Congress to modify the Jones Act, saying that the law is "one of the key drivers of our astronomically high cost of living in Hawaii and other locations in our country that are not part of the continental U.S." The Jones Act is a...

The Cato Institute, a Washington-based policy group that has been campaigning against the Jones Act, has released a policy analysis paper claiming the law, widely seen as a keystone of U.S. maritime policy, actually "undermines U.S. shipbuilding and national security." The Jones Act requires...

The Trump administration is considering revoking past guidance on how U.S. maritime law is interpreted, a move that could expose offshore oil, gas and wind operations to more foreign-flag vessels. The proposal, announced Oct. 23 in a bulletin notice by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),...

Provisions geared toward strengthening the Jones Act that were included in legislation authorizing the U.S. Coast Guard could make offshore oil and gas projects more costly. The provisions were part of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019, which the U.S. House Transportation &...

Lawmakers from U.S. Gulf Coast shipbuilding states convinced President Donald Trump to leave alone a decades-old maritime law preventing foreign vessels from moving cargo between American ports. President Trump had been considering granting Puerto Rico a 10-year waiver from the Jones Act –...

A request by the Governor of Puerto Rico to allow foreign-flagged vessels to ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States is getting push-back on Capitol Hill. The Puerto Rican economy was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017, and the U.S. territory faces long-term energy needs to help...