[QUOTE=Salty2;41878]There is alot of hair splitting when it comes to the Jones Act these days…One company has a dummy office ( Literally…) set up in Houston but is owned and operated out of Singapore.They bought the DMT Topaz( formerly the Agnes Candies) have named it the " Lewek Ambassador" and are sending it to their company owned shipyard in Saigon,Vietnam for a lengthy shipyard period.The plans are to return it to work in the Gulf of Mexico with a foreign national crew…Company rep in Singapore said" We are a big company and can do anything’-Hows that for letting foreigners dump in our back yard guys???
This is not an isolated incident-There are a number of companies that are american flagged but foreign owned and operated WITH FOREIGN CREWS…McCain has got to be getting paid on this one …How do you think he found 20 million dollars to get re-elected in Arizona? By selling american mariners,their jobs and the jones act down the river…[/QUOTE]
I don’t think the all American crew considers themselves foreign nationals, and I doubt anybody from the company has even talked to you. Be careful what you say because your not as anonymous as you think and you could get yourself sued for making false statements.