Navy delegation visits South Korean shipyards and CSSC Shipping orders bulk carriers while Puerto Rico seeks Jones Act exemption.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-03 00:32Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A senior naval advisor inspects a bustling South Korean shipyard at sunset, with a massive bulk carrier under construction in the background, as a group of workers in the foreground discuss plans, surrounded by cranes and shipbuilding equipment, under a warm orange sky.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A senior naval advisor inspects a bustling South Korean shipyard at sunset, with a massive bulk carrier under construction in the background, as a group of workers in the foreground discuss plans, surrounded by cranes and shipbuilding equipment, under a warm orange sky. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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MARAD signs nuclear shipping pact with CORE POWER, targets 2028 construction
The US Maritime Administration signed a memorandum of cooperation with UK-founded nuclear technology company CORE POWER in August 2026 to develop a US-flagged fleet of nuclear-powered merchant ships, with first construction targeted from 2028.
By Dana Whitfield · 5wThe Trump administration in May 2026 launched a formal initiative to develop small modular reactors for commercial shipping and instructed the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) to investigate how nuclear propulsion could be deployed across American fleets at scale.
In August 2026, MARAD signed a memorandum of cooperation with UK-founded nuclear technology company CORE POWER to accelerate development of a US-flagged fleet of nuclear-powered merchant ships, with CORE POWER targeting first construction from 2028. MARAD subsequently signed up the ports of Long Beach and Corpus Christi to explore how small modular reactors could be integrated into ships, terminals and the wider marine transportation system.
The Jones Act requires that all goods transported by water between US ports be carried on US-built, US-flagged, US-owned, and US-crewed ships. The read here is that nuclear propulsion could offer US-flagged operators a fuel-cost advantage on long domestic routes, but the technology must clear reactor licensing, shipyard certification, and port-safety approvals before any vessel reaches a Jones Act trade lane.
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