{"id":38430,"date":"2026-05-20T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=38430"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:00:45","slug":"jones-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/jones-act-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cpgrabow\/status\/2056743097258614938?s=43\">https:\/\/x.com\/cpgrabow\/status\/2056743097258614938?s=43<\/a><\/div>\n<p><br id=\"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;Lyn Alden retweeted a thread by Cato Institute analyst Colin Grabow noting that a recent Jones Act waiver revealed major gaps in the U.S. coastwise fleet, where many standard oceangoing vessel types common worldwide are absent or extremely rare.<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;The accompanying chart shows vessel categories like LNG carriers, LPG carriers, dry bulk carriers, chemical tankers, and heavy lift ships have zero or token presence in Jones Act-compliant U.S. domestic shipping due to strict U.S.-build, ownership, and crewing mandates.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image0.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image0-10.jpeg\"><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 &nbsp;These shortages constrain domestic energy distribution, offshore wind projects, bulk cargo movements, and infrastructure work, forcing higher costs, imports, or less efficient alternatives when waivers are unavailable<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jones Act &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Making you drink weird lemonade.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/x.com\/cpgrabow\/status\/2056743097258614938?s=43 \u2022 &nbsp;Lyn Alden retweeted a thread by Cato Institute analyst Colin Grabow noting that a recent Jones Act waiver revealed major gaps in the U.S. coastwise fleet, where many standard oceangoing vessel types common worldwide are absent or extremely rare. \u2022 &nbsp;The accompanying chart shows vessel categories like LNG carriers, LPG carriers, dry bulk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38430","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\/38430","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=38430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}