The Jones Act Makes Shipping More Expensive

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@Lee_Shore

probably suggesting that it wouldn’t have happened with better maintenance standards.

You mean; it wouldn’t happen with a US-flag ship?

MV Bright Field was a bulk cargo ship that collided with the Riverwalk Marketplace shopping complex in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the afternoon of Saturday, December 14, 1996, after losing engine power. The vessel was fully loaded with grain at the time of the incident. Wikipedia

Length: 224 m

Beam: 32 m

Launched: September 1988

Port of registry: Monrovia, Liberia

@Mondo

when the Chinese ship plowed deep into it, causing millions of dollars of damage.

PS> You forgot to mention that it was a Liberian registered ship