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[birdwatcher]

One of the most significant contributors to the high cost of living in Hawaii is the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (also known as the Jones Act), which prevents foreign-flagged ships from carrying cargo between two American ports (a practice known as cabotage). Most U.S. consumer goods are manufactured in East Asia at present, but because of the Jones Act, foreign ships inbound with those goods cannot stop in Honolulu, offload Hawaii-bound goods, load mainland-bound Hawaii-manufactured goods, and continue to West Coast ports. Instead, they must proceed directly to the West Coast, where distributors break bulk and send Hawaiian-bound Asian-manufactured goods back west across the ocean by U.S.-flagged ships. Hawaiian consumers ultimately bear the expense of transporting goods again across the Pacific on U.S.-flagged ships subject to the extremely high operating costs imposed by the Seamen's Act.

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[averros.livejournal.com]

Ocean-going merchant ships are quite big, and their capacity generally by far exceeds needs of Hawaii. While it makes a lot of sense for them to stop in Hawaii to offload part of their cargo, and take on cargo to mainland), it is prohibited.

[dmpogo.livejournal.com]

Ocean-going merchant ships are quite big, and their capacity generally by far exceeds needs of Hawaii.

Exactly, Asia-West coast routes are very cheap precisely because volume is huge, and volume is two-way. While to run Asia-Hawaii direct route (allowed) is, as it is seems shown by practice, unprofitable, even with expensive West Cost - Hawaii segment run by US ships. Probably due to low volume and perhaps because there is not much cargo from Hawaii to Asia to match.

But as of stopping in Hawaii of big super-containter carriers enroute to West coast with picking up cargo in Hawaii - I don't think that makes sense either. On a big ship bound to mainland, cargo for Hawaii is at best 2% (one state out of 50) of the load. From many northen ports of Asia (Korea, Japan, northern China) Hawaii is actually a detour of extra 1500-2000 miles, plus load/unload will take at least a day in Honolulu. So you delay the main, 98% of cargo to mainland by several days, which raises its cost. Plus I am not even sure Honolulu can handle all size of container carriers.

The links to the law show that the critisim is of that US cabotage run by american seamen is expensive. Sure, if it was run by Chinese with Chinese ships and salaries it would be cheaper. So is if you replace US longshoremen with Chinese. And truckers ... But I don't think even making Hawaii-West coast cabotage cheaper will make enroute stops or direct Asia-Hawaii routes attractive. To the contrary, going via LA/Seattle would be even cheaper and even more competitive !

Now there is perhaps a combination which would make stop in Hawaii work,
but, as I mentioned, I feel this is second order effect and needs more detailed calculation to make conclusions. There is nothing obvious in the argument 'Hawaii closer to Asia, it should be cheaper to transport there".

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

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