Posted on 02/23/2006 12:30:50 PM PST by ARCADIA
NEW YORK -- The Port Authority said Thursday it will file suit to block a Dubai-based firm from taking over operations at a Port Newark container terminal, saying the federal government has not given them assurances about security issues.
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You seem to have a problem with perception with folks you don't agree with. That's OK, though...........think what you wish. I always tell the truth, and if you knew anything about me, you'd know that.
Good night. Next time, let's make the rules the same for both teams, OK?
Evening OhioW. Things ok here?
But I very much appreciate your apology. As a Christian I took great offense by your words, and I appreciate your taking them back. Those of us who pray for the President know, perhaps better than anyone else, that he is dependent on the Lord completely for the very reasons you state..........that he is sinful, and prone to error, as much as any human being...........perhaps more because of his position.
That's why I pray so hard for him. Not because I think he's perfect, but because I know he's not.
Thank you, ARCADIA.
Thanks for checking in.
No problem, I've just been wandering the halls of FR and sort of meandered onto this thread, thought I'd check in.
If you weren't watching the first of Greta's show, it was pretty laughable. She's down in New Orleans and was interviewing some official at the Port of New Orleans. She tried as hard as she could to get him to say differently but he maintained over and over that he didn't see any difference occuring with port operations or security if the UAE should take over.
Then she interviewed a Coast Guard official at the Port of New Orleans and Greta kept saying over and over that we "aren't inspecting 100% of the containers". The Coast Guard officer continued to calmly maintain that in his opinion the customs dept have good procedures in place for container identification and inspection as it relates to port security.
She finally let it go, LOL!
WRONG...do a little research and fill that vaccuum...start by going to the P&O website and jotting down the port resources they control...then go to each and every port authority in question and study the statistics on the number of berths and cranes and the capacity...
Once you have done all that and post back here I will finish reading your post...
Well..NO...not exactley...its now 6 if Tampa is included. New York and New Jersey are actually the same terminal...aka Port Newark Elizabeth Terminal...
Sure we can. We're a capitalist country, not a socialist one. We generally don't take kindly to having governments running businesses. I don't understand why some are more tolerant of foriegn governments intervening in our economy. It's beyond me.
State-owned enterprises are the halmark of socialism.
I'll tell you what's turned me around on this, prairie...........and it just happened today.
CWO Jackson gave me the inside information on the Coast Guard, and what the Navy thinks.........and then I read Tommy Frank's comments, and I became convinced that there is absolutely no added security risk with this move, and that it is a good decision all around.
I am now at peace about the President's decision (thank the Lord!)
There ought to be a law prohibiting the sale of any US enterprise to a foriegn government, or any state-owned company.
http://www.nscsaamerica.com/marine_term.htm#New%20Jersey
Go to that site and then follow the chain up to its home page...then for giggles...take out america from the address and you will find yourself at the nscsa website....
Maersk did not buy P&O...P&O is being aquired by DPW...Maersk has absorbed lots of things...Sealand, Lloyd and CSX among others...
Source info concerning Saudi stevedore interests can be found at post 613...
Okay, I'll ask - - why is this a sweetheart deal?
Thanks ohioWfan. Like many other people with a real working knowledge of port operations, I couldn't believe this was ever an issue.
I truly wish that these people would tell the truth about things"
They're politicians.
Truth is a foreign concept to them.
And I really thank you for that.!
Is stevedoring and terminal operations two different things?
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