On March 26, 2024, at 1:27 am, the ship Dali hit and destroyed a portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on which there were eight workmen (“Baltimore Bridge Collapse Exposes Flawed System Part I” is in SBCurrent, April 8, 2024).
The event exposed the flaw in the 104-year-old Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (46 USC 50101), aka “the Jones Act,” of prohibiting…