The New Yorker – Page 6
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NewsQuestioning port funding attractiveness
COMMENT: One of the most sobering presentations at this year’s Marine Money conference, always held in the hottest days of June, was given by container shipping man Ron Widdows, writes Barry Parker.
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NewsCargo is still king
COMMENT: Across the Hudson from downtown New York, the big news in May was the arrival of three huge cranes from ZPMC at the Port Newark Container Terminal, writes Barry Parker.
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NewsCome out fighting
The commodities websites and energy blogs have been buzzing with the rumblings that Albany, about a hundred miles north of New York harbour on the Hudson River, is under consideration by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a delivery point for futures contracts in ''light'' crude oil.
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NewsChannelling the gas flow
A spate of recent conferences has brought New York’s shipping community to life, in spite of cold weather.
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NewsCold snap, warm will in NY
In New York, the conversations have all about bad weather: cargoes of road salt not arriving, straddle carriers slipping around at Port Elizabeth, trucks sliding around the Brooklyn docks, and tankers punching through ice as they move up to Albany to load Bakken crude.
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NewsDisappointment of US report card
The US infrastructure is in the news again, although not in a good way. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has issued its report card and the States gets a ''D+'' overall - basically a failing grade with some sugarcoating on it.
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NewsCashing in on US distraction
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.
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NewsSprint to the finish
We are in the home stretch for the mayoral race in New York, with my candidate John Catsmitides shut out - he lost in the Republican primary to Joe Lhota.
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NewsFunding without a strategy
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 related projects - with more than half for infrastructure specifically at the ports.
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NewsWelcoming the waterfront of tomorrow
A New York area Congressional representative, Nydia Velazquez, has introduced the ''Waterfront of tomorrow'' act, legislation that, if it moves forward, would have important impacts on the waterfront around New York, and other ports that are balancing their roles as transport hubs with the concerns of the local citizenry.
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NewsEnergy needs a port voice too
Living in the Northeastern US, it’s impossible not to be thinking about energy issues; in spite of decreases in overall net energy imports, this part of the country is still dependent on imported oil and gas.
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NewsAttention focused on water resources
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 the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
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Waterfront issues top the political agenda
In New York, last year’s Hurricane Sandy has been a game-changer in many ways: a recent panel featuring candidates in the upcoming Mayoral race showed that waterfront issues have moved to the top tier of issues facing the candidates.
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NewsThe shipping industry CMA reboot
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 the organisers.
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NewsPutting ports centre stage
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.
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NewsThe need to look ahead
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 than the lurking dockworker strike, but by mid January - with the third “deadline” approaching - negotiations between ...
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NewsMake preparations that count
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 hurricanes should be cleaned up, just in case.
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NewsElection fever takes hold
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 to pundits and debates, shopping and holiday partying will begin in earnest.
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Learning east coast lessons
The September ''event season'' included back-to-back appearances by executives from the City of New York’s Economic Development Corporation, one aboard “Pier 66”- an old cross-harbour railcar barge converted into a floating restaurant in Chelsea - and the other at the appropriately named Captain’s Ketch, downtown near Wall Street.
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NewsShoot first, aim later
Vessels presently described as post-panamax will be the new panamax class three years from now when the works are finished in Panama.
