Utah) and John McCain (R., Ariz.) have introduced legislation to permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act. This is a common-sense decision on the merits that will help the island recover ...
The CEO of U.S. shipping and logistics company TOTE Group emphasized the importance of the Jones Act in supporting the ...
Great Lakes Towing Company (GLT) has acquired the Crimson Clover closed-deck barge and subsequently launched a ...
The centerpiece was the announcement of $7 billion in grants through the Environmental Protection Agency’s “solar for all” ...
Puerto Rico politicians spoke up at the same time, requesting a 10-year Jones Act waiver to deliver LNG. The territory is about a week’s journey by tanker from the U.S. Gulf Coast, but the majority of ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jarrell Chalmers, a 31-year-old marketing consultant in San Juan, Puerto Rico ... due to laws like the Jones Act, which raises the price ...
In a related development, Horizon stated that it will cease operations and shut down its Puerto Rico domestic liner service. “The acquisition of Horizon’s Alaska operations is a rare opportunity to ...
As a commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Rico imports over 80 percent of its food. Due to the Marine Merchant Act of 1920, also known as the Jones Act, goods have to be delivered to the ...
New Fortress Energy (Nasdaq: NFE), a developer of energy infrastructure projects with an emphasis on shipments of natural gas, announced that “US Customs and Border Protection (US CBP) has ...
Over multiple decades, going back a half century to the early 1970s, a series of “Letter Rulings” by what is now the US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) have chipped away at provisions of ...