{"id":38423,"date":"2026-05-20T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=38423"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:30:21","slug":"jones-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/jones-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image0.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image0-8.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dominicjpino\/status\/2056799365528703100?s=43\">https:\/\/x.com\/dominicjpino\/status\/2056799365528703100?s=43<\/a><\/div>\n<p><br id=\"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;Dominic Pino highlights data from a March 2026 Jones Act waiver showing 45 voyages by 35 foreign-flagged tankers carrying U.S. domestic cargo like gasoline, diesel, and crude oil between American ports, including routes via the Panama Canal.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;The map in the post illustrates extensive new shipping activity along U.S. coasts and Gulf routes while the Jones Act-compliant fleet remained fully booked, indicating additional trade volume unlocked by temporarily suspending the 1920 law\u2019s restrictions.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;Pino argues this demonstrates how the Jones Act normally blocks potential American-to-American maritime trade, with the waiver revealing suppressed economic activity in domestic waterborne shipping. \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/x.com\/dominicjpino\/status\/2056799365528703100?s=43 \u2022 &nbsp;Dominic Pino highlights data from a March 2026 Jones Act waiver showing 45 voyages by 35 foreign-flagged tankers carrying U.S. domestic cargo like gasoline, diesel, and crude oil between American ports, including routes via the Panama Canal. \u2022 &nbsp;The map in the post illustrates extensive new shipping activity along U.S. coasts and Gulf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}