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REVIEW: A History of Greek-Owned Shipping: The Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the Present Day By Gelina Harlaftis
"The Second World War generated not only large profits for the Greeks, but also unprecedented opportunities. The final decline of British hegemony was paralleled by the rise of the United States, traditionally a weak maritime power. Since they were unable or unwilling...
REVIEW: A History of Greek-Owned Shipping: The Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the Present Day By Gelina Harlaftis
"The Second World War generated not only large profits for the Greeks, but also unprecedented opportunities. The final decline of British hegemony was paralleled by the rise of the United States, traditionally a weak maritime power. Since they were unable or unwilling to operate a dominant fleet, the Americans invented a US controlled flag of convenience fleet. For various reasons, Greeks were...
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INSPIRED TO SERVE: The Final Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service Executive Summary Excerpts (March 2020)
“We believe that the current moment requires a collective effort to build upon America’s spirit of service to cultivate a widespread culture of service—a culture in which individuals of all backgrounds both expect and aspire to serve their Nation or community and have meaningful opportunities to serve throughout their lifetime. Taken together, our recommendations offer a revolutionary and...
COVID-19: ALLIANZ MARITIME RISK ANALYSIS HIGHLIGHTS OPERATIONAL RISKS
BY STAS MARGARONIS Covid-19 prompted Allianz, a global risk consulting group, to produce a report highlighting problems facing ocean-going vessels and crews that can adversely impact the reliable delivery of imports and exports around the world. In an interview, Captain Andrew Kinsey, an Allianz risk consultant and a former Master with Maersk Line Limited says the report, Safety of...
AmeriCorps: Senate’s Pandemic Response Bill Could Fund 750,000 National Service Workers & Fight Second Covid-19
By Stas Margaronis A Senate Bill proposes funding 750,000 new jobs that could also support the track and trace of Covid-19 patients reducing thousands of additional infections and deaths from an expected second wave of Covid-19 projected for the fall. In April, a group of U.S. Senators proposed: “The Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act” which would fund...
ASCE: STILL NO REVENUE SOURCE FOR PROPOSED 2020 HIGHWAY BILL
By Stas Margaronis The American Society of Civil Engineers says that a proposed five-year highway bill still lacks a revenue source, such as an increased gas tax, at a time when Congress has passed several large stimulus bills related to Covid-19 economic dislocations. A spokesperson for the American Society of Civil Engineers said on April 30th: “while EPW (U.S. Senate Environmental &...
INFRASTRUCTURE & ART: WHEN ART WORKED: NEW DEAL, ART AND DEMOCRACY BY ROGER KENNEDY
“The duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or group of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense… although it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.” – Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS[1] “It has been a...
American Society of Civil Engineers Says Congress Fast Tracks Highway, Waterways & Other Infrastructure Investments
Photo: Texas Transportation Institute “During the years of the conservative era (the Reagan-Bush Administrations), the national infrastructure was allowed to deteriorate to an unprecedented degree. According to the figures of the Office of Management and Budget, federal investment in public capital was cut by a third from 1976 to 1990; education and training by almost 40 percent; physical...
USCG’S SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO KEEPS SEA LANES & SUPPLY CHAIN OPEN DURING COVID-19
Sector San Francisco watch standers dispatched a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew to rescue an overturned kayaker off the coast of Pacifica, California on Friday April 17th. (Video: U.S. Coast Guard) BY STAS MARGARONIS Deploying 24-hour per day boat crew patrols is the way U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) Sector San Francisco is keeping vital sea lanes safe and free of obstructions that could slow...
COVID-19 CRISIS: HOW THE KOCH BROTHERS UNDERMINED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: REVIEW OF ‘DARK MONEY’ BY JANE MAYER
“The Kochs might have disavowed Trump, but in several important respects he was their natural heir and the unintended consequence of the extraordinary political movement that they had underwritten since the 1970s. For forty years, they had vilified the very idea of government. They had propagated that message through the countless think tanks, academic programs, front groups, ad...
OWNER-OPERATOR DRIVERS ASSOCIATION’S SPENCER URGES TRUMP & CONGRESS TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT TRUCKERS
BY STAS MARGARONIS With truckers playing a crucial role providing medical supplies and food for a nation under lockdown from the Covid-19 virus, drivers are coming under stress from long driving hours leading, in some cases to Covid-19 infection. This prompted the head of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) to demand President Trump take action: “Once word...
SEAINTELLIGENCE’S JENSEN: ASIA EXPORT DECLINES, BLANK SAILINGS, IMPACT ON GLOBAL IMPORTERS & ABANDONED CONTAINER LIABILITY OF FORWARDERS
Lars Jensen BY STAS MARGARONIS Lars Jensen, CEO of Copenhagen-based SeaIntelligence provided the following ocean shipping reports via LinkedIn: Far Eastern exports declined 1.4 Million TEU in Jan/Feb. New data from Container Trade Statistics show that the combined container volume exports from the Far East in the two first months of the year declined from 14.2 Million TEU in 2019...
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