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Above is a video introducing the Eleanor, a well designed, efficient ship. Its purpose is  to support the United States’ growing offs hore wind farm market which has the capacity of generating double our nation’s current electricity use.  Read more about The Eleanor at greenshippingline.com !!

The United States is a rapidly growing and highly developed country with rapidly expanding supply and demand chains. GSL is working tirelessly to build new Jones Act-compliant vessels to supply our quickly growing demand. In the last 246 years, there has never been a greater need to build new ships to support our great nation’s demand!!!  Read the document attached below signed by both Green Shipping Line Founder and CEO, Percy R. Pyne, and President James Hart, of the AFL-CIO to see the steps being taken right now toward supporting the transportation industry in the United States.  

The entire Pyne family underwrote Moses’ Princeton endeavors. Being part of America’s history and development endowed all of them with the firm conviction of “paying back” by giving to numerous charities. It was not just a job, but a privilege and a duty.  Princeton was the best example of investing in the future of the nation and in the way the living legacy of our family and ancestors is the education of the thousands of past, present, and future generations of graduates. Pyne Hall, Upper, and Lower Pyne, and the Pyne Library (now known as East Pyne Building) are the select buildings the family allowed its name to be put on, however, the family financed numerous university buildings and paid the University’s operating deficit for 30 of 31 years. In addition, he built his home, Drumthwacket, which today functions as the New Jersey governor’s mansion. The Moses Taylor Pyne Prize is the most coveted award at Princeton. Justice Sotomeyer and Senator Paul Sarbanes (from the financial ...

      The history of our origin is vital to understanding where we are going. Let’s go back to the historic days of the Mayflower when the American entrepreneurial spirit was born; back to when John Howland, the patriarch of his family and one of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact, first touched American soil. Although the family has been prominent for centuries, they have a quiet way of doing what needs to be done, without ever asking for credit or calling attention to their actions. Generation after generation passed down their passion for expansion, building the nation, and the desire to better their world.      One such ancestor was Gardinier Howland. Together with his partner Samuel Aspinwall, they built the first clipper ships, Rainbow and Sea Witch, and started the family's love of shipping. Their firm also built the Panama Railroad, which eventually became the Panama Canal.       Moses Taylor, another relative, also owned hi...

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California’s 20-cent Diesel Tax Hike Goes into Effect Press  / By  Green Shipping Line Truckers in California will now see increased prices at the pump after a 20-cent increase to the state’s diesel tax went into effect Wednesday, Nov. 1. The excise tax on diesel in the state jumped from 16 cents per gallon to 36 cents per gallon Wednesday. The state has also increased the sales tax rate on diesel from 9 percent to 13 percent. California Gov. Jerry Brown  signed a bill into law in April  that included the tax increases. The state expects to generate a combined $10.8 billion by increasing the diesel excise and state tax rates, along with $24.4 billion from a 12-cent gasoline tax increase that also went into effect Wednesday. The money generated by the taxes is to be used to fund transportation projects such as rebuilding roads and bridges. Six other states this year have increased fuel taxes , including Indiana, Montana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, and...

Highway Trust Fund Ticker Press  / By  Green Shipping Line As the two graphs below indicate, both the Highway Account and the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund are nearing insolvency. With the Highway Account expected to become insolvent by the end of the summer, the Department of Transportation may consider implementing cash management procedures to manage the flow of federal dollars. If the Department implements cash management procedures, reimbursements to states for infrastructure work will be limited to the available cash in the Trust Fund.  Additionally, the Department would distribute incoming funds in proportion to each state’s federal formula apportionment in the fiscal year. Highway Account Based on current spending and revenue trends, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund will encounter a shortfall before the end of the fiscal year (FY) 2015. The Highway Account began FY 2015 with approxi...