Only one company asked the U.S. government to suspend the Jones Act, though a U.S. maritime-labor group gave its blessing to the decision (the Jones Act was created, in part, to protect maritime jobs).

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Despite being relatively close in maritime terms, with no alarm being sounded there was no chance of the Northumberland being able to act.

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