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Biden could waive Jones Act to curtail fuel shortage, White House says


Biden could waive Jones Act to curtail fuel shortage, White House says
Katherine Doyle
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The Biden administration said it is prepared to waive a controversial shipping rule temporarily to ease a fuel crunch in parts of the East Coast and South, six days after a cyberattack shuttered a major petroleum pipeline.
The law, the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, or Jones Act, requires trade between U.S. ports to be carried on maritime vessels built, owned, and operated by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. It bars non-U.S. ships from carrying petroleum northward from Gulf ports to the Eastern Seaboard. ....

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White House: Foreign Shipping Companies Need to Prove Need for Jones Act Waiver – gCaptain


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The White House said the Biden Administration was ready to review Jones Act waiver requests from companies that can show insufficient domestic capacity, but stopped short of saying it would issue any such waiver.
The waiver issue comes amid reported gas and fuel shortages along the U.S. East Coast as the Colonial Pipeline faces its sixth day of being offline after a ransomware cyberattack left the critical pipeline inoperable.
In a statement issued Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for issuing Jones Act waivers, was ready to review waiver requests from companies that can show there is insufficient capacity within the Jones Act fleet. The statement comes on the heels of the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration completing a review of available Jones Act capacity. ....

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