The Jones Act...it's really all about the money and protecting their little corner of the world with some people.
God help us if this is how the spill and cleanup is being handled
OMSA testifies about Jones Act concerns - Offshore Shipping Online
"Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) President/CEO Ken Wells testified before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee earlier this week with regard to foreign vessels operating in the economic zone exclusive to American vessels.
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He then said that the US "still has the largest fleet of offshore energy vessels in the world, but … our leading role and our future is threatened."
Mr Wells did not, apparently, refer to the key role that many non-American designed or built/operated vessels are playing in the oil spill clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico; or provide the Committee with any data comparing the capabilities of US-built vessels with the highly sophisticated tonnage designed and built outside the US, vessels which are routinely contracted for work in the Gulf of Mexico by US oil companies and taken on charter by US vessel operators."
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