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Monday, January 14, 2013 |
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A Coherent Cabotage Critique
By Michael Hansen @ 7:50 PM :: 6310 Views :: Jones Act
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...commentary not only addresses the primary U.S. cabotage statute – i.e., the Jones Act – but also the pernicious effects of cabotage laws in other countries....
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Sunday, January 13, 2013 |
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Jones Act Hurts Hawaii (Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico too)
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:48 PM :: 7258 Views :: Jones Act
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By some estimates, Jones Act makes goods in Hawaii 33% more expensive than they could be....
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Monday, January 7, 2013 |
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Lloyd’s List endorses U.S. Build exemption for Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico
By Michael Hansen @ 4:00 PM :: 6084 Views :: Jones Act
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“Any action that weakens the protectionism of the Jones Act will ultimately be to the long-term benefit US shipping.”
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Saturday, January 5, 2013 |
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Matson, TOTE Ship Orders Timed to Influence Federal Jones Act Study?
By Michael Hansen @ 3:10 AM :: 7777 Views :: National News, Jones Act
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...influential British maritime journal Lloyd’s List published three articles today regarding the long awaited US. Government Accountability Office release of a report on their study of the impact of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico....
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 |
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Bloomberg Editorial Blasts Jones Act
By Michael Hansen @ 4:53 PM :: 7700 Views :: National News, Jones Act
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Bloomberg calls for major Jones Act reform in two parts: elimination of the U.S. build requirement for ships engaged in domestic coastwise trades; and, a more controversial proposal to allow foreign ship owners to compete....
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
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Matson Buying Reef Shipping
By News Release @ 11:09 AM :: 6193 Views :: Jones Act
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Matson will continue to provide service to Reef's historical core trade lanes from Auckland, New Zealand and Fiji to the island nations of Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu, Tarawa and Majuro ....
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Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
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Sause Building New Barge to Service Hawaii
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 7196 Views :: Jones Act
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The new barge is being specially designed and built to service the Hawaii market and will be larger, more efficient than its predecessor....
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Monday, December 17, 2012 |
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The Jones Act Debate in Puerto Rico: Urban Legend or a Never-Ending Story?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:28 PM :: 6319 Views :: Jones Act
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...the U.S. build section of the Act should be modified in certain trades of domestic shipping in order to support the U.S. Merchant Marine....
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Monday, December 17, 2012 |
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Jones Act union official calls islands “off-mainland threat”
By Michael Hansen @ 12:15 AM :: 6064 Views :: Jones Act
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“the remote states and territories.”
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
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Jones Act U.S.- build requirement is a sham
By Michael Hansen @ 8:30 PM :: 12062 Views :: Jones Act
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A leading Jones Act shipowner said last week they will build two containerships in the United States that were designed by a foreign shipbuilder and will be fitted with foreign manufactured components....
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 |
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Matson Fires Shot Across Consumers’ Bow
By Michael Hansen @ 12:57 PM :: 10288 Views :: Jones Act
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...Matson is planning to acquire, within the next five years, two new mainline ships for the extravagant price of U.S. $400 million....
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Monday, November 19, 2012 |
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Joni’s Jones Act Plea
By Michael Hansen @ 3:40 PM :: 7023 Views :: Jones Act
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Perhaps the most important upcoming development in respect of Jones Act reform will occur early in the first quarter of 2013. That is when the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) is expected to release a Jones Act study requested by the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, Representative Pedro Pierliusi (D).
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 |
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Jones Act Shipbuilding Burdens Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and Puerto Rico
By Michael Hansen @ 9:58 PM :: 11820 Views :: Jones Act
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...the “prices for new ships have fallen to an eight-year low” and may be pushed down another 15 percent....
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Friday, November 2, 2012 |
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Obama Administration Waives Jones Act For Hurricane Sandy
By Michael Hansen @ 10:37 PM :: 6583 Views :: Jones Act
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The Jones Act Waiver was requested by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ....
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Saturday, September 8, 2012 |
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Liquefied Natural Gas for Hawaii: Sourcing and Transportation Options
By Michael Hansen @ 8:26 PM :: 10878 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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To go beyond supplying their current gas customer base in Hawaii, it will be necessary for Hawaii Gas and the other players to look at a very much larger scale program....
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Friday, August 24, 2012 |
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How Jones Act May Swing Presidential Election
By Michael Hansen @ 6:58 PM :: 8663 Views :: Jones Act
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The long predicted fight over the foreign flag carriage of crude oil from the U.S. Government’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) on the U.S. Gulf Coast to refineries on the U.S. East Coast seems set to begin in earnest ....
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Friday, August 17, 2012 |
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Murder at Pier 23: The Death of Hawaii Animal Agriculture
By Michael Hansen @ 10:41 PM :: 8762 Views :: Agriculture, Jones Act
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"...it’s come to the point where we are wondering whether it’s worth continuing the business...."
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Thursday, August 2, 2012 |
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Hawaii Congressional Candidates on the Jones Act
By Michael Hansen @ 3:52 AM :: 7089 Views :: Jones Act
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The Star-Advertiser asked all 24 candidates running for three federal offices 6 questions including, “Should Hawaii be exempt from the Jones Act, the federal law that protects the domestic shipping industry from foreign competition?”
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Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
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Shipowners Add New Bunker Surcharges for Low Sulfur Fuel
By Michael Hansen @ 4:22 AM :: 10928 Views :: Energy, Environment, Jones Act
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...additional costs to be incurred by carriers switching to low sulfur ship fuels as required by an international convention, which the United States Senate has not ratified but is being imposed anyway by President Barack Obama’s administration beginning on August 1, 2012....
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Thursday, July 12, 2012 |
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Hawaii Dems and Mr Jones
By Michael Hansen @ 2:31 PM :: 10691 Views :: Democratic Party, Jones Act
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“Dems and Mr. Jones, they got a thing going on. They both know it’s wrong. But it’s much too strong to let it cool down now.”
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 |
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Will Matson Survive?
By Michael Hansen @ 4:17 PM :: 8615 Views :: Jones Act
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...trapped in a protected and proscribed market, surrounded by customers who don't like paying its exorbitant rates and unable to afford modern ships....
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Friday, June 8, 2012 |
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Naval Shipbuilding and Repair goes Awry
By Michael Hansen @ 7:49 PM :: 8748 Views :: Jones Act, Military
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The Navy released its preliminary findings yesterday in the case of the fire aboard the Los Angeles Class fast attack nuclear submarine USS Miami (SSN 755) that may result in the vessel being assessed as a total constructive loss....
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
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Mazie's Adventures in a Jones Act Wonderland
By Michael Hansen @ 7:11 PM :: 8182 Views :: Jones Act, Politicians
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Rep. Hirono states that the Jones Act has created 10,000 maritime jobs in Hawaii, and the Hawaii maritime industry generates an annual turnover of more than $4.7 billion and provides wages of $1.1 billion. These are extravagant numbers ...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
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Jones Act Reform Key Element of Guam's Economic Plan
By Michael Hansen @ 3:48 PM :: 7633 Views :: Jones Act
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The Governor of Guam, the Honorable Eddie Baza Calvo’s Council of Economic Advisors has recently released the outline of their new economic plan, and Jones Act reform is a key element of that plan....
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
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Insolvent Horizon refits old Jones Act ships in foreign shipyards
By Michael Hansen @ 4:49 PM :: 12377 Views :: Jones Act
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...in a direct rebuff to U.S. shipyards, it will refit three of its ageing containerships in Asia hypocritically skirting the so-called “second proviso” of the Jones Act....
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Sunday, May 13, 2012 |
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France, Flights, and Free Cars: A Peek into a $10B Jones Act 'Union'
By Selected News Articles @ 8:03 PM :: 8280 Views :: Jones Act, Labor
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First-class travel. Six-figure salaries for half the 132 officers and staffers. Plenty of plum jobs for family members. Life is good at the top of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012 |
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Will Horizon Lines go down with the Jones Act?
By Michael Hansen @ 11:35 PM :: 9159 Views :: Jones Act
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Horizon wishes to assure the Jones Act industry of its fidelity and that it will not succumb to the siren call of Jones Act reform even if that means it will never have a chance to rationally renew its fleet of dreadful old clunkers....
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Saturday, April 28, 2012 |
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The History of Natural Gas in Hawaii
By Michael Hansen @ 4:20 PM :: 16286 Views :: Energy, Hawaii History, Jones Act
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In response to my article, a reader asks: “We get all the natural gas we need now. How does it get here? The article makes it sound impossible, but it’s here.”
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 |
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Clinton’s chief economist supports Jones Act reform for Hawaii
By Michael Hansen @ 6:16 PM :: 14803 Views :: Jones Act
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Professor Stiglitz explained that the first time the Jones Act came to his attention is when he worked on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and it was identified as a major impediment to the national U.S. economy....
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Monday, April 16, 2012 |
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No Natural Gas for Hawaii with Jones Act Ships
By Michael Hansen @ 8:20 PM :: 10391 Views :: Energy, Jones Act
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There are no Jones Act ships available to transport the LNG from the contiguous United States or Alaska to Hawaii. No deep draft LNG carrier has been built in a U.S. shipyard for at least 30 years....
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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Hawaii Shippers Council Outlines Jones Act Reform Proposals
By Michael Hansen @ 6:48 PM :: 14458 Views :: Jones Act
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The NTJAR initiative would exempt just the Jones Act noncontiguous domestic trades – Alaska, Guam, Hawaii and Puerto Rico – from the U.S.-Build requirement of the Jones Act and only for large self-propelled oceangoing ships....
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Sunday, April 1, 2012 |
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S&P: Credit Risks Mount For U.S. Domestic Shipping Companies As Ships Start Showing Their Age
By News Release @ 10:55 PM :: 8891 Views :: National News, Jones Act
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More than a thousand ships and barges will reach the end of their useful lives in the next few years. More may be forced out of service as environmental standards tighten....
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
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US-Build requirement for ships: Dilemma for Hawaii, Guam, Alaska, and Puerto Rico
By Selected News Articles @ 7:24 PM :: 15134 Views :: Jones Act
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... labor rates are not the main reason why U.S. shipyards are uncompetitive ....
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
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Why Hawaii Lost the Superferry
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 24749 Views :: Hawaii History, Jones Act, Judiciary, Politicians
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Last year, instead of enacting a law stating that the Supreme Court was wrong, the Legislature adopted special legislation exempting the Superferry pending completion of an environmental impact statement. The Supreme Court’s recent decision correctly struck down that exemption as violating the Hawaii constitutional prohibition against legislative special treatment for special interests.
The governor and Legislature were then handed a second opportunity to make the law pono by saying what everyone believed. The Legislature could enact simple language, such as the following which I recommended to the legislative leadership in March 2009, making clear that our environmental laws do not extend to "secondary" impacts:
"Significant effect" does not include or require consideration of “secondary impacts” on the environment that may result from government action. This latter provision is retroactive to enactment of this chapter.
By doing so, the law would state what everyone always believed it meant and the Superferry would have been allowed to continue providing essential transportation to Hawaii's citizens and competition to interisland airlines.
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