[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting usable lifespan Usable lifespan is a constantly moving target depending on the maintenance and repairs applied to them. Corrosion is the cancer that devours a ship from the inside, rarely the other way around. Unfortunately it is often out of sight, out of m…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting I was always amazed when I observed ancient steam turbine driven LASH vessels that had been converted to carry containers trading out of West Coast ports to Hawaii. If I had been master of one of these vessels under any other flag but the US I would have had my…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting I suppose that this has something to do with the special circumstances which prevail in the US maritime system due to which free competition is prevented. I don’t see why. There are foreign flag unsafe rust-buckets trading in the “free market”, why’s that? …

It is a fact, for whatever reason, that the average age of US Merchant ships are more than double the world average and three times that of lager shipping nations, incl. most FOCs. Here is an article from a US Law Firm, where they ask some pointed questions: (Link): http://www.gaidrylaw.net/blog/20…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting This harping on about FOC ships being “unsafe rust buckets” I don’t think many (any?) people here have claimed that. [image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting manned by"unqualified 3rd wold Villagers" The qualifications are debatable, but they ARE usually l…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting I don’t think many (any?) people here have claimed that. Read your own post just above mine. I have met many of those you call “3rd World Villagers” who are both well educated, well read and perfect gentlemen. I cannot say that about all, but neither would…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting [image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting [image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting This harping on about FOC ships being “unsafe rust buckets” I don’t think many (any?) people here have claimed that. Read your own post just above mine. I think you need to r…

That has become your standard reply when you have nothing actually to say. I was expecting a spirited defence of American CEOs and Stock Brokers, and their annual remuneration.

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting That has become your standard reply when you have nothing actually to say. I point out your non sequiturs in the hopes that you’ll stop being intellectually dishonest in your discussions here. [image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting I was expecting a spirite…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting those you call “3rd World Villagers” Most of us here use ‘3rd World villager’ as a euphemism for ‘someone paid less than an American from a country with a cost-of-living significantly less then the United States’ as opposed to an actual Third-World villager…

[image] NTSB El Faro Report Meeting Most of us here use ‘3rd World villager’ as a euphemism for ‘someone paid less than an American from a country with a cost-of-living significantly less then the United States’ as opposed to an actual Third-World villager. It’s just less to type. That too.

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I don’t see why. There are foreign flag unsafe rust-buckets trading in the “free market”, why’s that? The economic pressure that makes companies cut cost that extremely transcends the Jones Act trade.

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