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Originally Posted by Uricanejack
It’s kind of funny to when Americans be on a largely American forum are accusing the EU of racism regarding crewing policy for EU vessels.
It take it none of them have ever heard of the Jones Act.
Which makes perfect sense if you live and work in America.
It’s about time the EU restricted its vessels to EU crew. Particularly effects the coastal trade.
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Regarding the Jones Act as to the make up of crew for
USA coastal
trade, the crew must be 75-percent crewed by Americans, who are paid significantly higher than the typical non-American crew.
About 20% of the crew aboard EU flagged vessels are Philippine citizens.
I am not sure that the EU is prepared to provide subsidization to their maritime sector [ship building & crew staffing] for their inter-EU ship trade.
Take
Puerto Rico for an example, the cost of transport to the island territory of the
USA invokes the equivalent of about a 7.2% tariff /
sale taxation of the population, which is about $300 “Individually, families pay $300 more or $107 per person for
food and beverages,” said ABC economist Vicente Feliciano.
https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2...the-jones-act/
Transporting containers from the United States to
Puerto Rico costs, on average, 2.5 times, or 151 percent more, than transporting from foreign
ports. Specifically, “$3,027 from U.S.
ports versus $1,206 from non-U.S. ports … after having made the corresponding adjustments for size of container and distance.” It also makes for very inefficient load outs of the cargo vessels because the vessels return to the USA with only about 20 of the weight, returning empty containers instead of picking up cargo from
South America or other
Caribbean ports to provide for fuller return loads.