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Carter Foxx Buy ing which Coast Guard Comman- shipbuilding history in Canada in the Granite City, IL, the container on dant Admiral Paul Zukunft and U.S. process for generations to come,” said barge service will provide soybean and

Maritime Administrator Paul “Chip” Brian Carter. With production of the grain shippers a new routing option.

Jaenichen both stressed the critical second OFSV now underway, signi? - The third service, the Lake Erie Shut- need for the Jones Act to protect our cant progress continues on the ? rst tle, is a proposed route that will carry economic and national security. Ad- OFSV with 35 of 37 blocks currently cargo for shippers between the ports miral Zukunft said, in part, “You take under construction. The two CCG of Monroe, MI; Cleveland OH; and

Jones Act away the ? rst thing to go is ships are part of VSY’s three vessel, Detroit, MI. these shipyards and then the mariners. incentive-based build contract for the

If you take the mariners away, what is construction of three OFSVs, which

CA Ferry Sector Welcomes the world going to look like 10 years will be delivered under a ceiling price

Budget 2016 from now? If we don’t have a US ? eet contract before the end of 2017.

Canada’s ferry sector last month or US shipyard to constitute that ? eet, praised the actions taken by the gov- how do we prevail?” Echoing Zuku-

DOT Secretary Foxx ernment to improve ? eet renewal nft, Jaenichen stressed that without

Designates Three Marine across Canada. This includes waiving the build requirement of the Jones Act

Highway Projects the tariff on the importation of vessels our nation’s shipbuilding industrial U.S. Transportation Secretary Antho- of all sizes and making strategic invest- base would gravely diminish. “With- ny Foxx has designated three new Ma- ments in locations throughout the out the commercial shipbuilding and rine Highway Projects. The Mississip- country. “Today’s budget will have a that industrial base, it will have an ef- pi River, previously designated as the real impact on passengers throughout fect on the taxpayer in terms of what M-55, will serve as the primary route the country,” said Serge Buy, CEO of we have to pay for the cost of acquir- for the Baton Rouge-New Orleans the Canadian Ferry Operators Associa- ing those vessels for NOAA, Navy, Shuttle project. Sponsored by the Port tion (CFOA). “Through various mea-

Coast Guard, or USACE,” he said.

of New Orleans in partnership with sures, the federal government is help- the Port of Greater Baton Rouge and ing the 55 million passengers that use

Seaspan Starts Construc-

SEACOR AMH, LLC, the proposed ferries every year.” The tariff, initially tion on Offshore Fisheries container-on-barge service will oper- created to protect the shipbuilding sec- ate between the Ports of Greater Ba- tor was no longer relevant as shipyards

Science Vessel (OFSV)

Brian Carter, President – Seaspan ton Rouge and New Orleans, reduc- were at (or near) full capacity due to

Shipyards, last month announced ing congestion and bridge traf? c on the National Shipbuilding Procure- the start of construction on Seaspan’s Louisiana’s Interstate 10. Also oper- ment Strategy and all trade agreements second National Shipbuilding Strat- ating along the M-55 from Chicago, signed by Canada saw the elimination egy (NSS) ship, the Canadian Coast IL to New Orleans, LA, the proposed of the tariff in the short to mid-term.

Guard (CCG)’s second Offshore Illinois Intrastate Shuttle project is

Fisheries Science Vessel (OFSV). structured to shift about 5,500 con-

Shaughnessy Launches “Seaspan is now full-steam ahead on tainers in its ? rst year of operation

ACK Marine & General the production and delivery of its ? rst from congested north-south Interstate

Contracting two National Shipbuilding Strategy 55 to the Mississippi River. Sponsored Marine construction veteran Kim (NSS) vessels, and we are re-writing by America’s Central Port located in Shaughnessy, longtime chief ? nancial

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