REBUILD THE UNITED STATES!

Photo: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company   BY STAS MARGARONIS Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research, a long-time analyst of the global semiconductor industry, says recent automotive semiconductor shortages will ease, but the United States must rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing capability partly focusing on a science and math education campaign aimed at younger Americans...

Source: ASCE By Benita Margaronis Think back to the days when you were in high school and college, what was the one thing that you feared seeing at the end of every semester? It was your report card! If your grades were good your parents would let you go to that super cool away summer camp and if they were lack luster you had to work in the garden all summer. Now this is an example of a...

Source: ASCE By Kevin Policarpo  American infrastructure has been in stagnation for several decades with a few areas being graded at B or C according to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2021 Report Card For America’s Infrastructure[1], which is published every 4 years. Progress has been made recently to rectify this issue, with the overall grade of the nation’s public works being...

By Stas Margaronis For centuries people believed that a poet named Homer wrote the epic poems the Illiad and the Odyssey, the foundations of literature in Western Civilization. However, in 1923 a young University of California classics student argued, in his master’s thesis, that the true authors derived from a “traditional’ process.[1] In his thesis Millman Parry asserted: “Just as the story of...

By Stas Margaronis Retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joel Whitehead, has been appointed as the new executive vice president of the International Propeller Club of the United States (IPCUS). Whitehead served as IPCUS president from 2017-2019. In announcing Whitehead’s appointment, IPCUS President Niels Aalund said: “Joel led our organization through some tumultuous times and spearheaded the...

Photo: TRAPAC By Stas Margaronis After facing losses of U.S. import market share, U.S. West Coast (USWC) ports have increased their import share but lost export market share compared to rival ports on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts, according to the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association’s West Coast Trade Report. The June West Coast Trade Report provided April 2021 results as follows: *USWC...

By Kevin Policarpo              As California is preparing to deal with another round of wildfires this year, plans and strategies have been created to mitigate the damage of the fires. These plans include increasing the amount of greenery burned through controlled fires, increasing the manpower of Cal Fire, and improving the fire safety of communities across the state. With the increasing...

By Stas Margaronis, RBTUS Ron Gonen provides a primer for companies and people who want to support waste-free products and business strategies. His theme is that a “circular” economy can develop around products and strategies that utilize recycling. The growth of stores selling waste-free products is backed by the growing participation of companies and producers who are moving away from plastic....

Long Beach Container Terminal BY STAS MARGARONIS   IN THIS REPORT: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION PORTS OF LOS ANGELES & LONG BEACH CLEAN AIR ACTION PLAN LONG BEACH CONTAINER TERMINAL IS ELECTRIFIED TRAPAC TERMINAL LOS ANGELES INVESTS IN ELECTRIC POWER PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION SAYS CLEAN AIR MANDATES UNDERMINE CALIFORNIA PORTS COMPETITIVENESS SSA ALSO EXPRESSES CONCERNS NETHERLANDS:...