Excellent article. However, this has ALL been common knowledge for many years. The guilty hui is Jim Cook et al including Kitty Simonds at WESPAC who had a long and EXTREMELY close relationships with Senator Inouye and his "brother" the late Republican Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska. WESPAC and their stacked board was protected from all attacks until Stevens and Inouye died. How could Jim Cook not have known? Ah yes! "The Jones Act." Those of us who have for decades asked that our congressional delegation sponsor a study of the negative effects on Hawaii and on virtually all of America's seaports and navigable inland waterways (such as the Mississippi River) have fallen on deaf ears. WHY NOT A STUDY? As potentially important as this is, try check at the State Legislative Reference Bureau an see what you find. The only study there is over 40 years old! Suffice to say, there is ONE 2013 blog post at UH on the matter at Uhero. <http://www.uhero.hawaii.edu/news/view/210> Why so??