New Jersey Can't Get Its Road Salt Because a Ship Is Missing a Flag

New Jersey Can't Get Its Road Salt Because a Ship Is Missing a Flag

Forty-thousand tons of rock salt meant for New Jersey’s icy roads is currently banned from so much as entering the Port of Newark. The reason? A nearly century-old maritime law that requires shipping vessels to fly the American flag. Naturally.

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