Isn't the Jones Act the same act that has to be waived every time Puerto Rico needs aid?<p>Sounds like a terrible legacy law that needs to be reworked.
Worth noting from the article:<p>> The verdict required American Seafoods and its subsidiaries to find a new way to ship seafood into the United States, bringing the Bayside Canadian Railway's usefulness to an end.<p>It looks like the "railway" owner solved the problem by switching to Russian-sourced seafood (Jones act applies to shipments between US ports): <a href="https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cbp-bayside-canadian-rail-facility-switched-to-russian-seafood" rel="nofollow">https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/cbp-bayside-canad...</a>
I liked this short video from "Half as interesting" on Youtube on the railway itself if you're looking for a video on the subject.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1Oq3JLNbc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1Oq3JLNbc</a>
>The law requires shipping between American ports to be handled by American-built, American-flagged vessels<p>Sounds anti competitive and not really like a free market. China vibes.
I am trying to find the judge's ruling. If I go to the District Court of Alaska, they want me to register for a PACER account and pay up to $3 a document.<p>In my Google, I did find an interesting Yale Law Journal [1] article that mentioned this case, that when on to say that repealing the Jones Act is basically DOA due to lobbying interests.<p>[1] The Yale Law Journal
<a href="https://www.yalelawjournal.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.yalelawjournal.org</a>
The Neglected Port Preference Clause and the Jones Act