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" Who on this thread lives by a port?"
I do. I am a few miles away from the huge Tioga container terminals within the Philadelphia Port complexes. The place is huge. And it is only one of more then a dozen huge facilities along the Delaware river. We have to remember, there are many business ran by Arab based companies in the US. I plan on proving for myself through carefull searches in the days to come, that some of our FR posters on a few like posts have made authoritive comments indicating there are currently Arab companies that lease and operate container shipping facilities at some of our ports.
I just hate to put anyone down at this point. We all share similiar concerns with our national security. And with that being the case, perhaps it would be safer to have DPW take over P&O's current operations and keep a very tight watch over them, say make them show without a doubt they are simply good businessmen, and will do their best to prove it, then have some say Chicom or Asiatic company say from Indonesia or Malaysia make a bid to take over what P&O had in place.
And now we are hearing this whole thing has become an issue based on unions griping that DPW is not union friendly. So this may be half the beef as to why Chucky for instance all of a sudden is hopping up and down.
One thing for certain. The President is not informed about every little detail that happens around the globe. No president is capable of handling the whole worlds ills. This contract review was done by the responsible agency that OK's new business leases etc., for our ports.
Nothing was done in secret. The contract bid was reviewed by the proper agencies. They got a pass. Just like the Chicom company that now runs a terminal in Long Beach CA.
The fact of the matter is almost all container shipping functions are done by companies in foreign countries. Whoever where to replace P&O could be no better then DPW as far as how they run their internal security, administrative, and billing processes. So I could ask you the same question regarding will they have "manifest". Will any other company that ended up with the P&O leases be any more efficient and responsible as how they conduct their business?