Can’t one ship a container from China to Hawaii now?
Or does Hawaii not have an international port?
Jones Act covers state-to-state, not furrin’ country to a state.
Right. Now look at it the other way. It costs something like $2,000 to ship a container from LA to China, and $9,000 to ship it to Honolulu. The Jones Act makes the LA-Honolulu trip so expensive because international ocean carriers can’t compete for that business.