Jones Act costs Alaska billions while Iran-US tanker attacks escalate and Cyprus, US agree to advance maritime cooperation.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-18 00:28Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
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A stormy sea meets a rocky coastline, with a damaged oil tanker in the distance, as people on the shore watch a shipyard in the foreground, where workers in hard hats and vests assemble a large vessel under a cloudy, gray 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 stormy sea meets a rocky coastline, with a damaged oil tanker in the distance, as people on the shore watch a shipyard in the foreground, where workers in hard hats and vests assemble a large vessel under a cloudy, gray 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.
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Carmel says commercial shipbuilding must lead U.S. maritime rebuild
Stephen M. Carmel argues the U.S. maritime rebuild must prioritize a commercial shipbuilding and operating base over an exclusive push for more Navy ships.
By Ingrid Sorensen · 3wStephen M. Carmel, writing in MarineLink, asserted that rebuilding the U.S. maritime industry must prioritize a commercial shipbuilding and operating base over an exclusive focus on building more Navy ships.
That erosion, Carmel argued, created a strategic vulnerability: the government became the sole customer for critical vendors, reducing economic health and resilience. The Jones Act requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged, U.S.-owned and U.S.-crewed ships. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 established the United States Maritime Commission and required a U.S. merchant marine with U.S.-built ships and citizen crews.
On the fleet's numbers, Jones Act construction costs run about three times foreign levels, and operating costs at least twice as much. Jones Act ships average 11 to 12 years old, about three times older than foreign ships. Oceangoing Jones Act ships fell 17% from 2006 to 2011, indicating too few ships relative to demand. A study was prepared for La Alianza Maritima de Puerto Rico, an industry trade association representing Jones Act ship operators and maritime unions in the Puerto Rico trade.
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