The Jones Act's security claim fails while Delaware container terminal targets early 2029 opening and Nigeria court rules drilling rigs are not vessels.
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Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-19 00:49Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A container terminal under construction at sunset with cranes and ships in the background, a group of workers in the foreground discussing plans, and a large oil tanker passing through a narrow strait in the distance, with a subtle hint of smoke rising from its engine room.
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 container terminal under construction at sunset with cranes and ships in the background, a group of workers in the foreground discussing plans, and a large oil tanker passing through a narrow strait in the distance, with a subtle hint of smoke rising from its engine room. 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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DOT steers $679m from offshore wind to US shipbuilding
The Department of Transportation rescinded Biden-era climate guidance and redirected $679m from 12 offshore wind projects to conventional maritime infrastructure and US shipbuilding.
By Ingrid Sorensen · 2wThe Department of Transportation rescinded Biden-era guidance that folded greenhouse-gas reductions into federal infrastructure funding decisions and withdrew $679m from 12 offshore wind-related projects, redirecting the money to conventional maritime infrastructure and US shipbuilding.
The shift matters for the domestic fleet because the Jones Act requires goods moved by water between US ports to travel on US-built, US-flagged, US-owned and US-crewed ships, so new tonnage for the domestic trade has to come from US yards.
That fleet is old and shrinking. Jones Act ships average 11 to 12 years old, about three times older than foreign ships, and the oceangoing Jones Act fleet fell 17% from 2006 to 2011, a decline that left too few ships relative to demand.
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