The New Yorker – Page 6
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Sprint 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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Funding 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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Welcoming 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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Energy 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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Attention 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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The 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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Putting 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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The 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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Make 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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Election 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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Shoot 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.
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The positives of private investment
Port authorities and governmental bodies have a great deal to gain when the deep pockets of big corporate entities are opened up.
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A relevant four letter word
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 hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles around the country.
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Consider the wider transport system
Automation is a big thing in the ports business, sometimes crucial to growth, and sometimes less so. At box terminals in New York, where the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post has put labour practices under a microscope, it is vital.
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Security funding needs local support
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 - a Federal infrastructure funding initiative.
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RAMPing up American port potential
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.
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Streamlining TWIC and the TSA
One recent news item in the “streamlining of government” category caught my attention: the Obama administration wants to consolidate a handful of business-facing agencies into the Department of Commerce.
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A gassy on-dock debate
Maritime issues, by their nature, always cross boundaries - geographical, economic, or other.