Exceptions to the Jones Act have been granted by our government. For example, the movement of LNG from the Gulf Coast currently moves in a former French built tanker. The Jones Act exception includes ...

President Donald Trump's administration is considering a proposal to create an international shipping registry in the U.S.

During the season, the team visited the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. It was then that the USMMA coaches were first introduced to the Pine Island senior third baseman ...

Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), together with several original co-sponsors, reintroduced the SHIPS for America Act in the U.S.

Three important policy-related failures can explain the United States’ “ship problem ... also needs to be abolished if America’s merchant marine, and its shipping sector more generally ...

At the age of fourteen Hack lied about his age and paid someone to pose as his father so he could claim to be old enough to join the United States Merchant Marine. In 1945 during the final months ...

Mark was a 1974 graduate of Haddon Township High School and a 1978 graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. After spending a decade working on merchant ships, Mark enjoyed a 30 year ...

In a sense, the challenge before the United States today is more daunting than ... recruits for the sea services and the merchant marine, and skilled tradesmen for the maritime industrial complex.

Today’s mariner workforce is just a fraction of the 243,000 who served during WWII, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy only graduates around 200 every year. Americans need more jobs ...