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Sandwiched in-between the big fiascos in Washington, DC - which culminated in a government shutdown - President Obama, visiting New Orleans, called for increased infrastructure spending.

The interactions of politics and port commerce make for some strange stories: in early September, the US Department of Transportation awarded more than $100m in grants to a dozen recipients in port…

From New York, where the Coast Guard has now signed off on the modifications to the Bayonne Bridge, maritime people turned their eyes south to Washington, DC, as the US Senate approved…

This spring’s Connecticut Maritime Association conference, one of the mainstays of the New York event circuit, suffered from having too many good speeches/sessions happening simultaneously - a happy problem, I guess, for…

Over the past few years, the New York/New Jersey Working Harbor Committee, a diverse group of local stakeholders, has come together in a big way.

New York is all about labour actions, or so it has seemed at the beginning of 2013. At the start of the year, a possible school bus driver strike garnered more attention…

Shortly after an early July, 2012 ceremony marking the change in command, the newly anointed Captain of the Port in New York, Gordon Loebl, suggested to his team that preparedness plans for…

As this article is being submitted, the US is in the thick of the election cycle; by the time it appears, the early November election will have been decided. Instead of listening…

Vessels presently described as post-panamax will be the new panamax class three years from now when the works are finished in Panama.

In the world of port logistics, one consistent “four letter word” is D-R-A-Y, which refers to trucking of containers between a yard facility and a link to railways where boxes can move…

Port security is full of challenges. The Port of Everett is set to install lighting, courtesy of a $1.3m free ride, fully funded by US port security grants covered within ARRA -…

An important piece of legislation, the Realize America’s Maritime Promise proposal that could free up money for harbor maintenance, is kicking around Washington, DC.

Maritime issues, by their nature, always cross boundaries - geographical, economic, or other.

Even without explicit ties to port funding, highway projects throw off enormous benefits to ports.

In this season of Labor Day, job creation and the inchoate 2012 Presidential campaign trail - now an eighteen month affair - ports continue to be a bit player in the larger…

Pulling in Federal money to fund infrastructure projects got a little bit harder, as the US credit rating was downgraded.

There is a cliché to the effect that ...cargo does not vote - but people do. Usually the context is the funding of infrastructure.

The long talked about “Infrastructure Bank” is back in discussion-mode, albeit with a much different visage than originally proposed during the campaign season three years ago.

With attention focused on the ongoing sagas of the Highway Trust Fund, it’s clear that Obama advisor’s advisors (keenly aware of the old adage, “Cargo does not vote”) are not looking carefully…

In these days of hyper-connected supply chains, we sometimes forget about the human factor, good old fashioned labour on the docks, in the warehouses, and around the port.