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Gulf Coast is becoming America’s emergency fuel hub, study shows

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Gulf Coast is becoming the country’s “emergency fuel hub” following the Trump administration’s suspension of parts of the Jones Act, a federal law that restricts shipments of energy-related cargoes between domestic ports to American-flagged vessels, according to analyses of maritime data.

Since suspending portions of the Jones Act, a 1920 law that generally requires c…

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