What about the idiotic rule that a foreign ship cannot unload at Seattle, then unload at Portland, then unload at LA? Instead the ship has to choose one? We shouldn’t outright ban foreign vessels from being contracted to do work in US waters, having a tax for companies that do this might be okay, but an outright ban is dumb.
“What about the idiotic rule that a foreign ship cannot unload at Seattle, then unload at Portland, then unload at LA? Instead the ship has to choose one?”
Since when?
I’ve been retired awhile, but when I worked for ZIM we went to multiple ports in the U.S., and the Japanese ships I used to work went to multiple ports as well. Quite curious what you are reporting here.
Jones Act denies foreign vessels picking up cargo in the U.S., and delivering that cargo in a different U.S. port. Has to be U.S. built, and flagged vessels only, and I do support that seeing as how the government has so trashed our Merchant Marine over the years the least we can do is favor what’s left with some business.
This has been the law since at least the "Navigation act of 1817." It was created to protect commercial US shipping interests from foreign competition.
Believe it or not, this was a big contributing cause of the Civil War. The Confederates wanted Free Trade, and the Northeastern shippers stood to lose a fortune if this happened.