Puteri Intan LNG carrier
For years, we've railed against the Jones Act, signed into law in 1920, which requires any ship that travels between U.S. ports to be built in the U.S., flagged as a U.S. ship and crewed by American citizens (see our Jones Act articles here). No modern LNG cargo carriers qualify as they are all built in other countries, meaning we can't load a ship along the Gulf Coast (or Atlantic Coast, like Cove Point or Elba Island) with LNG and then transport it to another U.S. port like Boston or Puerto Rico. Shipping giant Crowley has just found a way around that restriction---at least for shipments heading to Puerto Rico.
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