The U.S. government relaxed a long-standing maritime law protecting domestic shipping commerce to allow an undisclosed company to transport gasoline and diesel to ports in the East Coast after a cyberattack crippled the nation’s largest fuel pipeline network. The Jones Act, implemented in 1920, requires goods moved between U.S. ports to be carried by ships …
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