Nothing about ships or shipyards !
No but the highways, tunnels, airports and bridges will be beautiful. Plus no DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers as if that were a problem. I know some airline pilots and we dine together when in town and not one has mentioned DEI.
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The political side of it aside, the reality is that republicans and democrats both have little interest in the US Merchant Marine. Waltz and the Maritime committee are the only ones I have hope for really making a positive impact.
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Ask one of them if he remembers talking to fellow pilots looking to move up from the regionals. The most common phrase those days was " If I had tits I’d be a Delta captain by now."
Just so we have some kind of metric to judge the choice down the road, what exactly do you want the Sec to do? Do we have some quantifiable objectives we can measure against in a year of two, to objectivly say he was good or bad for our industry?
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It’s Crowley. And no, not a word about it online for some reason.
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Crowley.
Only one left now:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/shipid:711387/ship_name:GULF_ENERGY
PS> Even if that one could be re-activated and re-flagged, isn’t she a bit big for the Puerto Rico trade?
Smaller LNG carriers are available on the second hand market,
(They just need to be arrested in the US for something first)
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It might be the PUTERI ZAMRUD.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:707704
Whatever it is is going to be called the “American Energy” apparently.
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/2566837?page=1&perPage=8&navList=moreOfThisShip&imo=9030838&lid=2566836
Even a little bigger than Gulf Energy:
How much LNG do they consume on Puerto Rico?
It’s not as if the need much for heating.
PS> At least a bit newer (blt. 1996) and with more up to date containment system.
The bigger issue with PR is not how much they can consume, but how much they can store. They’d use it more for energy on the island if they had the ability to store more of it. Thus, an LNG tanker still has to come for multiple trips even though they don’t discharge the entire load. If I understand it all correctly.
Boston getting an LNG carrier exemption would be interesting too, the northeast imports Russian and Trini LNG as of now, even though we are the #1 exporter in the world.
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Trump says he’s nominating @DrOz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS. -
100 pct John K has a shot at MARAD !
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That’s not DEI though. DEI initiatives have noting to do with preferential hiring.
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Correct. DEI is not a law. It is a fairly recent policy that some corporations or organizations have. Discrimination has been illegal since 1964. Why companies and organizations decided to have a new policy for DEI is beyond me. It is certainly not required by any law I can find. Interestingly, Tesla established a DEI report for shareholders in 2020. They dropped this report in 2024 when DEI became a political talking point. Reminds me of the “Cancel Christmas” conspiracy.
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But that doesn’t mean workplaces have been equally open and hospitable to all people.
To increase diversity by making their workplaces less hostile and more accepting of others because increasing diversity has been proven to increase profit.
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Increase profits via DEI. What, “Woke” Thank Tank published that study??
If you look at the source of the emotions, angst, and political posturing that lead to the concept of DEI, preferential hiring was certainly one of the original ingredients of that stew.
No one said DEI was a law, it is a murky concept. The point of my post was that in the period that phrase evolved, preferential hiring had lit the fuse to the explosion of backlash against preferential hiring. Because fewer of the target employee groups had qualifications at least equal to those who were “deselected” for a position, the results were painfully and often fatally obvious, especially in the aviation world.
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DEI is the cousin of “affirmative action.” Liberal Government imposed unconstitutional pernicious anti-white-male racism and gender bias.
I’m hopefully that there will soon be an executive order rolling back affirmative action and DEI.
I’m confident that the Supreme Court will eventually rule that affirmative action is unconstitutional.
I hope that America will become a color blind and gender blind meritocracy.
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People are not allowed to publicly speak out against DEI, if they do it is a risk to their career. Even if some professional people don’t agree with it in private, they won’t talk about it in public in case the wrong person is listening. With the proliferation of smart phones everyone has a dictaphone in their pocket, someone could get recorded saying things against DEI and it could be used against them.
I’m not totally against DEI initiatives as long as they don’t lower standards. Some people might genuinely be overlooked for jobs because of their gender or race, which shouldn’t happen. But DEI shouldn’t come at the cost of lowering admission standards to things.
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No it isn’t. It has nothing to do with preferential hiring. Republicans just turned it into a boogieman and blame things on DEI that have nothing to do with it and people uncritically believed them because they want something to be angry at. It’s just the new CRT they’re using to keep people angry.
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