Thought the schools had Yom Kippur off
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conulyTurns out they don't. Well, boo.
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Date: 2017-10-01 06:19 pm (UTC)The article then posits a fictional foreign-flagged vessel carrying goods from American ports that "can reroute to Jacksonville, Fla., where all the goods will be transferred to an American vessel, then shipped to Puerto Rico…." Huh? Nobody would load cargo onto the foreign-flagged ship to begin with if it had to be transferred later! There are US-flagged ships that handle such freight.
This entire article smells of an attempt to de-regulate yet another industry, in this case ship building. There is a ton of money to be saved shipping US goods on foreign-built boats not to PR, but to Hawaii and Alaska. If that happens, the US ship building industry will be well and truly killed dead, dead, dead.
That is the aim of this hit piece. Puerto Rico is just a convenient frame around which to obfuscate the real aim.
(NB: I spent 15 years as a professional mariner here in Seattle.)
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Date: 2017-10-02 05:07 am (UTC)