RELATED INCIDENTS ATRIBUTABLE TO CONTINUING IMPOSITION OF JONES ACT RESTRICTIONS
In the years since this document was originally written, 2011. TWO MAJOR INCIDENTS have occurred along with the continuing impact on Hawaii as noted above.
First of all, the Puerto Rican Government, both Executive and Administrative Branch’s have petitioned the President and Congress of the United States to give administrative relief to Puerto Rico from the Jones Act restrictions. They have sought that relief with respect to passenger ships as well as freighters and, of course, all shipping.
This relief has been denied over the years in spite of the many requests and predictable outcome of t continued withholding. The Rican Government has DECLARED that it is BANKRUPT …show more content…
Agricultural production here, as it was in Puerto Rico is a thing of the long past. Viable, sustainable agriculture is long gone. There are no visible dairies, hatcheries, piggeries, and on and on and on.
Hawaii is well on its way to acing Puerto Rico’s fate….BANKRUPTCY!!!!!
As noted earlier, U.S. shipping companies trading under the Jones Act today are still required to build their ships in the U.S. even though they have outdated designs and cost nearly four times as much as an Asian-built ship.
The result is an over-aged fleet providing very expensive services mainly to the U.S. regions of Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska and virtually no coastal shipping at all. EL FARO LOST AT SEA
The effect of this aging may not seem startling until you learn about the tragic sinking of the
Motor Vessel El Faro on October fifth 2015, just one year ago.
Almost no one in Hawaii knows about this loss of life directly connected to the Jones Act provisions. The cost of maintaining ships that are old is huge, The cost of buying a Junes Act qualified ship runs as high as four times the cost of a ship built in Asia or
In the years since this document was originally written, 2011. TWO MAJOR INCIDENTS have occurred along with the continuing impact on Hawaii as noted above.
First of all, the Puerto Rican Government, both Executive and Administrative Branch’s have petitioned the President and Congress of the United States to give administrative relief to Puerto Rico from the Jones Act restrictions. They have sought that relief with respect to passenger ships as well as freighters and, of course, all shipping.
This relief has been denied over the years in spite of the many requests and predictable outcome of t continued withholding. The Rican Government has DECLARED that it is BANKRUPT …show more content…
Agricultural production here, as it was in Puerto Rico is a thing of the long past. Viable, sustainable agriculture is long gone. There are no visible dairies, hatcheries, piggeries, and on and on and on.
Hawaii is well on its way to acing Puerto Rico’s fate….BANKRUPTCY!!!!!
As noted earlier, U.S. shipping companies trading under the Jones Act today are still required to build their ships in the U.S. even though they have outdated designs and cost nearly four times as much as an Asian-built ship.
The result is an over-aged fleet providing very expensive services mainly to the U.S. regions of Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska and virtually no coastal shipping at all. EL FARO LOST AT SEA
The effect of this aging may not seem startling until you learn about the tragic sinking of the
Motor Vessel El Faro on October fifth 2015, just one year ago.
Almost no one in Hawaii knows about this loss of life directly connected to the Jones Act provisions. The cost of maintaining ships that are old is huge, The cost of buying a Junes Act qualified ship runs as high as four times the cost of a ship built in Asia or