JONES ACT – THE SHOT ACROSS THE BOW

On October 9, 2017, the following Associated Press article was published in newsprint from LA to New York, from Miami to Seattle, and from San Juan to Pearl Harbor, to Juneau. The American Merchant Marine Veterans organization diligently works to preserve the Jones...

Truth blunts storm of inaccurate Jones Act coverage

By Paul Doell National President, AMO In what may have been the most publicly played Jones Act controversy ever, the venerable domestic shipping law was the lead in nationwide news coverage for much of the last week in September. The subject was the Jones Act factor...