no salt for you
Homeland Security blocks road salt delivery for New Jersey
NJ salt shortage continues
Posted: Feb 17, 2014 5:57 PM ESTUpdated: Feb 18, 2014 9:07 AM EST
By ADRIENNE SUPINO,
The salt shortage persists in New Jersey. Officials have failed to get permission for a barge with 40 tons of salt to set sail for the tristate region
Angel Morales, a resident of Jersey City says her car just won’t go anywhere.
“Look, you see I went up and I started sliding back,” she said.
N.J. officials were hoping a barge with 40 tons of salt would arrive from Maine. But the vessel wasn’t flying the American flag and officials couldn’t get clearance from Homeland Security to come to the Port of Newark.
The problem is because of the 1920 federal Maritime Act. It prevents foreign vessels from moving cargo from one U.S. port to another. It was designed to protect the U.S. shipping industry from foreign competition.
Read more: https://www.myfoxny.com/story/24746649/nj-salt-shortage-continues#ixzz2tggIY7aJ
Why are we getting our sand from Maine…?
Give me a DPW truck and I can make a midnight raid in Sandy Hook and be back before storm #19 hits.
There is bi-partisan support for the continuation of this law, evidently.
Fact is, we “almost run out of salt” just about every year. This year has been ridiculous with frequent snowfall, so maybe the sky really is falling this time.
I’ll do what I do every year. Buy 100-200 lbs of the stuff when HD has an abundance and stash it in the basement.
As of a little while ago the law has been waived.
Its probably a law to prevent ships that do not comply with US Coast guard rules from transporting goods and or passengers within the US territorial waters.
Its original intent was probably for safety reasons. Now its to protect US boat owners who have to pay high wages for union crews.
Did you ever see a US Flag on any of the ‘cruise ships’? Of course not. They don’t want to comply with the US laws so they have a ‘flag of convenience’.
The real joke is that it takes about 5 hours for a truck to drive up to maine and another 5 hours to get back here. We could have had a fleet of dump truck trailers do the job last week so we had salt when we needed it.
It will now arrive on the barge as the temperature hits 50 this weekend.
There isn’t a large dump truck in the Ridgewood fleet that wold make it back and forth
get the dam salt .
#4. This law’s intent is to force shippers to use US ships instead of foreign flags. It has little to do with safety–that salt is not on a cruise. It’s another instance of the crony capitalism that both parties love so much.