The impact of modifying the Jones Act on US coastal shipping.

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• Creators:
  Ashar, Asaf ; Amdal, James R.
• Corporate Creators:
  University of New Orleans. Dept. of Planning and Urban Studies
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Laws and legislation
  • Coastwise shipping
  • Exemption
  • Taxes
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Case studies
  • Short sea shipping
  • Cargo ships
  • Capital costs
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/LA.525
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana. Dept. of Transportation and Development
• Abstract:
  The study assesses exempt coastal shipping defined as exempted from the US-built stipulation of the ; Jones Act, operating with functional crews and exempted from Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT). The ; study focuses on two research questions: (a) the impact of the US-built exemption on the cost of coastal ; shipping; and (b) the competitiveness of exempt services. The assessment is based on three typical case ; studies, the first two involving short and long-range services for domestic cargoes (containers and ; trailers) provided by RoRo ships; the third, short-range feeder service for international containers ; provided by LoLo ships. The study finds that building coastal ships in foreign yards could save about ; 40% of the capital cost of the RoRo ships and 60% for the LoLo ships. However, due to favorable ; financing terms for using US shipyards (Title XI), the savings in capital cost would only amount to ; 13%, 11%, and 4% reductions in door-to-door shipping cost for the three case studies. Because of ; these minor reductions, along with other structural factors, the study concludes that exempt coastal ; services in all three case studies are uncompetitive with present truck and rail services.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  LTRC Project Number: 13-8SS ; State Project Number: 30000766
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27434/dot_27434_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.38 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:76de13fe442ab36141a1d8de0985a01f79fc6ca52bf4783a33f83ddaae1697e6