Security effort should not compromise flow of cargo
Everyone in the public port industry understands that seaports serve as the critical gateway that connects our trade-dependent business to the global marketplace. In fact, in the United States, seaports are responsible for moving more than 99 percent of the nation's overseas cargo.
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Seaports Deliver Prosperity
Seaports have served as a crucial economic lifeline by bringing goods and services to people around the world for hundreds of years. Seaports continue to be a critical link and play a vital role in the global marketplace, but they don't always get credit for the significant contribution they make to our society and economy.
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Investing in infrastructure crucial to economic health
As nations of the Western Hemisphere continue recovering from the worldwide economic downturn, the value that secure, sustainable and accessible seaports serve in delivering prosperity is increasingly evident. While nearly everyone has had to "tighten their belts" during the downturn, the value that seaports provide in moving goods to market is a great reminder to consumers and businesses - and their elected and appointed officials - that healthy ports are the cornerstone to a bright economic future.
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Coming Year Exciting, Yet Full of Challenges
It is a great pleasure for me to serve the American Association of Port Authorities as chairman of the Canadian Delegation again this year. Once again, I'm sure that the next 12 months will be filled with challenges of all sorts, including a financial crisis and a possible recession to face.
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Seaports achieve success via collaborative efforts
For the better part of the past year, ports around the world have struggled with unprecedented economic issues that have forced us to confront, head-on, the universal challenges of reduced revenues, tight budgets and the tough, unavoidable decisions that accompany those situations.
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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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Investments, interactions help protect supply chain
Less than a decade ago, global supply chain security was more of a concept than a critical component of goods movement. The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the global war on terror have caused most people to look at security in an entirely new way and to think differently about the world in which we live.
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Challenges spark innovation, thereby enhancing efficiency
In today's challenging economic environment, "running a tight ship" -- or the marine terminal equivalent -- is crucial as ports strive to be competitive and fulfill their promise of delivering prosperity. With the slowdown in trade and the continued need for infrastructure, environmental and security investments, ports are embracing technology and innovation to enhance operating efficiencies and be capable of competing for -- and handling -- new business when the global economic engine is revving again.
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By Working Together, Americas Can Flourish
As the American Association of Port Authorities' 2008-2009 Latin American Delegation chairman, I aspire not only to work for the growth of our delegation and the efficiency of our ports, but, mainly, to motivate the integration between us in the Americas, learning and sharing ever more to be better people and to grow in our brotherhood. My comments are not only about today; they come from past wisdom and will apply to the future, hopefully a very near future.
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Capital projects must have 'green' benefits
Over the past several years, the American Association of Port Authorities has been focusing much of its efforts on advocating for programs and policies that would facilitate the movement of goods by seeking increased funding for transportation infrastructure and marine highways. These efforts were designed to minimize congestion and allow our seaports to serve as our nation's economic engines.
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Navigation channels must be ensured priority status
It's normal for ports, like all businesses, to retrench during bad economic times. But that would also be shortsighted, since a downturn can be a good time for ports to make those infrastructure investments necessary to prepare for the new generation of larger cargo and passenger vessels on the near horizon. Over the next five years, more than 300 containerships ranging in capacity from 6,000 twenty-foot-equivalent container units to 14,000 TEUs are scheduled to come into service, along with new fleets of mega-cruise ships, such as Royal Caribbean's 6,300-passenger Allure of the Seas set to launch in the fall.
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Proactive Measures Have to be Adopted
Each day the global news media highlights the grim economic picture that the world faces, and many economists have agreed that the world is in a recession. Such turbulent economic times have not been seen in many years, and many have drawn similarities between this period and the recession of the early 1900s.
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AAPA plays crucial role for Latin American ports
The number "three" is significant for the American Association of Port Authorities' Latin American delegation. This year, I am serving as delegation chairman for the third time, while, during 2002-2003, I had the distinct pleasure of serving as the association's chairman, being the third Latin American to ever hold that position.
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