Noncontiguous Shipping Competition Act

This bill changes shipping rules called the Jones Act that require ships carrying goods or passengers between U.S. locations to be built in America, mostly owned by U.S. citizens, and mostly crewed by U.S. citizens. The bill creates an exception for shipping routes to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and U.S. territories, allowing foreign ships to operate on these routes unless there are already at least three qualified U.S. shipping companies regularly serving the route with each carrying at least 20% of the goods and none owned by the same parent company.

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