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One less Jones Act tanker is signal to lift U.S.-build requirement

by Jonathan Helton | May 31, 2022 | Economy, Jones Act, Maritime Policy

Photo courtesy of Maritime Hawai‘i “Houston, we have a problem.”* That’s because America just lost another ship from its ever-dwindling Jones Act fleet, an oil tanker named the Houston that counted the islands of Hawaii among its ports of call. After 37 years of...