Puerto Rico

US DOT awards $478 million in airport infrastructure grants to 232 airports in 43 states.

Provision in Coast Guard bill tightens foreign-ship waiver process

Ten-year waiver to move U.S. LNG to Puerto Rico is off the table – for now.

Infrastructure hearings and a controversial waiver have lawmakers taking sides on the Jones Act debate.

LNG shipments to Puerto Rico caught in the middle of latest battle over the Jones Act maritime regulation.

A year later, nothing has changed. The hurricanes keep coming on strong. But the stubborn, antiquated, protectionist law, won’t go away. It’s like a bad dream all over again.

Following the devastation Hurricane Maria delivered to Puerto Rico, there have been many places to levy blame as the island nation has been slow to recover. An aging electric grid that was destroyed, a country mired in debt that has been unable to maintain basic infrastructure, an arguably slow government response. One segment that received blame, unfairly, was the nation’s truck drivers.

A relic of a protectionist period in US history made the damage caused by Maria so much worse. Combined with a lack of logistics infrastructure and you have the making of an American made catastrophe.