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Legislators seek to restore cargo preference rules

Friday, July 27, 2012

U.S. Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) and Jeff Landry (R-La.) have introduced legislation that would reverse a provision in the recently passed federal highway bill to restore a requirement that 75 percent of U.S. food aid be carried on U.S.-flag ships, and that a portion be shipped through Great Lakes ports. The highway bill, MAP-21, had reduced that percentage to 50 percent. The change, which U.S. shipping proponents say was added at the last minute and took them by sur...

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