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US maritime industry argues Congress should nix Canadian rail exception

'...Congress should take the final step and repeal the dead letter provision that enabled this conflict to develop' -- Michael Roberts, American Maritime Partnership

By Undercurrent News | Oct. 20, 2021 17:14 BST
A still from a video reported to be of a tractor trailer full of Alaska pollock being driven on a short track in New Brunswick, Canada, in order to qualify for a Jones Act exemption.
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The Jones Act exemption that the Alaska pollock industry had tried to use to enable the transport of their fish on foreign-owned trampers has outlived its usefulness and Congress should do away with it, argues Michael Roberts, the president and chairman of the American Maritime Partnership (AMP) [...]

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