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Seaports Continuing to Deliver Prosperity

Seaports have long been recognized for their ability to create jobs and generate tax revenues while facilitating the safe and secure movement of cargo. As ports around the world feel the impact of the deepest global recession in decades, there is growing pressure on many port authorities to take bold, dramatic steps toward ensuring that port activity continues to provide jobs and other economic benefits.

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Letter from Ray Venturino

As we look with optimism toward better days for our industry and the overall global economy in 2010, it's not too soon to start thinking about the American Association of Port Authorities' 2010 schedule of seminars and workshops, as well as the issues of AAPA Seaports Magazine that will focus on reflecting the subject matter of three of those programs.

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Guest Article

Transportation System Demands Stimulus Aid

In 2007, Martin Associates estimated that U.S. deepwater ports supported more than 13 million jobs throughout the United States and contributed about $3.2 trillion to the national economy. The economic value of this cargo activity represents about 25 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product.

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Guest Article

Risk management impacts all areas of port operations

What keeps you up at night? You wake up at night in a cold sweat! In your dream (or nightmare), you are on the witness stand in front of the judge, jury and, of course, the local media, having to answer questions as to why you approved a lease agreement that has now caused a class-action lawsuit against the port for $14 million...

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Guest Article

Technology critical to trucks program

In spring 2007, the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach inaugurated a major change in the U.S. goods movement industry when they embraced a Clean Trucks Program as part of a greater effort to reduce pollution by 80 percent in the area of the ports. Since 36 percent of U.S. foreign commerce transits these two ports, the implications were far-reaching and profound.

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Guest Article

Port Credit Stability Confronts Challenges

When the largest U.S. containerports are seeing 30 percent to 40 percent decreases in monthly cargo volumes and credit markets have frozen with the downgrade of most of the monoline bond insurers and many banks, it's clear that U.S. ports are facing a unique set of economic and credit challenges.

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Case Study: Port of Long Beach

Port Development Stimulates Economy

Despite the economic downturn, the Port of Long Beach remains financially sound and is planning to invest more than $2 billion in infrastructure development in the coming years.

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Case Study: Jacksonville Port Authority

Improvements made without disruption

Implementing technology can be complicated enough without considering the importance of ensuring that ongoing operations of port facilities proceed without disruption. With its Talleyrand Marine Terminal Berth 3 rehabilitation project, the Jacksonville Port Authority responded to this dual challenge, deploying an innovative technical solution while maintaining movement of vessels and the automobiles they import at a busy roll-on/roll-off berth.

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Case Study: Port Administration of Lázaro Cárdenas

Terminal Expansion Moving Forward

In the face of challenges posed by the global economic crisis, container terminal expansion is moving forward at the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas, on Mexico's south-central Pacific Coast, as port officials seek to capitalize upon opportunities to attract a growing share of Asian commerce destined for U.S. markets.

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Case Study: Port of Trois-Rivières

Security act triggers redrawn perimeter

Following the Canadian government's introduction in 2003 of the Marine Transportation Security Act, Canadian ports have taken steps to achieve compliance while seeking to minimize adverse impacts on port operations. For the Port of Trois-Rivières, in Québec on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River between Montréal and Québec City, this ultimately has meant redrawing of the port's perimeter.

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