Navy orders new carrier while Japan commits to shipbuilding aid and Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico seek Jones Act exemptions.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-06 00:45Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A massive dry dock fills the frame, with a half-built warship in the center, surrounded by bustling workers in hard hats and vests, as a large cargo ship passes by in the background, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through, illuminating the scene in a warm, golden light.
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 massive dry dock fills the frame, with a half-built warship in the center, surrounded by bustling workers in hard hats and vests, as a large cargo ship passes by in the background, under a cloudy sky with a few sunbeams breaking through, illuminating the scene in a warm, golden light. 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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Chinese shipyard signs $1B order for 10 car carriers as Jones Act debate continues
GSI and China Shipbuilding Trading have signed contracts for ten 8,200 ceu vessels worth more than $1 billion, while proposals to exempt foreign-built ships from the Jones Act for noncontiguous routes remain under discussion.
By Sander Voss · 4wGSI and China Shipbuilding Trading have signed contracts for ten 8,200 ceu vessels worth more than $1 billion, according to a regulatory announcement from parent China State Shipbuilding Corporation. The deal follows advanced negotiations reported in August for between 10 and 14 LNG dual-fuel PCTCs of around 8,600 ceu, worth roughly $1 billion.
The Jones Act requires all ships moving freight between U.S. ports to be built in the U.S., have at least 75% U.S. citizen crew, and be 75% U.S. citizen owned. Most nations have cabotage laws for economic protectionism or national security; 80% of U.N. members with coastlines have such laws.
A reform proposal would grant an exemption for foreign-built vessels registered in the U.S., flying the U.S. flag, with U.S. owners and crew to carry cargo between the contiguous and noncontiguous jurisdictions. The results of that report could have implications for regulatory matters in other noncontiguous domestic trades: Alaska, Guam, and Hawaii. High freight under the Jones Act makes exports from non-contiguous areas less competitive than imports from other nations.
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