Question Answered. In November 2016, Rhode Island voters approved “Question 5”, a $50 million bond measure for infrastructure projects at the Port of Davisville.
The launch of Connecticut Port Authority (CPA) looks to open up new opportunities for the State’s ports.
Boston is a pattern of neighborhoods. The airport and port itself are all merged in close proximity, linked by a bewildering collage of streets and alleys that has made the local saying “you can’t get there from here” seem very real.
“Late February, and the air’s so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring…”
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in the midst of an economic reset.
Global trade is entering uncertain times. A new industrial age is afoot and there is a question of whether we’ll stumble.
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always on top.” Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80s.
On 22nd of December, 2016, Maersk, arguably the world’s largest ocean containership carrier (the argument coming from similar-sized 2M alliance partner MSC [Mediterranean Shipping Company]), began offering Chinese shippers the option of using Alibaba’s (arguably the world’s largest retail commerce company in gross revenue terms) OneTouch system. This move could well be as revolutionary as Malcom McLean’s launch of the containership industry just over sixty years ago.
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