Supporting ports, KP and the mothball fleets is all those fat asses in Washingtoon seem to care about anymore. Where in their mission is MARAD tasked with shoveling money at ports?
What about more US flagged ships in the MSP? Nowhere in the article are ships even mentioned!
At our last Sr. Officers conference our CEO (an unnamed USTanker Company) said that high level Washington officials have been mentioning that the MSP fleet is severely understrength and would be introducing legislation to add additional MSP vessels to the program.
Hope that is right. Admiral Buzby exposed that defiency a few years ago with his shakeout cruises. God bless him for having the balls to open peoples eyes to the sad state those fleets were in.
I think you are confusing the MSP program with the RRF.
Not confused at all between the two. Both are in a sad state of repair and readiness.