Advocate for 🇺🇸’s ports and supply chain when POTUS & Congress make decisions on infrastructure, transport, security, & trade.⚓️🛳⛴ 🐟@PortsUnited
Washington, DC
Joined September 2019
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✅ Leader of the free world visiting ports b/c of geostrategic importance
✅ Completion of Federal infrastructure project to welcome larger shipping vessels
✅ $18M invested, 2300 local jobs supported
✅ Home products incl. heating & next-gen offshore wind development
President Biden will visit a New Hampshire harbor tomorrow to highlight how billions of dollars from the bipartisan infrastructure law are being spent on rebuilding the nation’s ports and waterways cnn.it/3EnGbvs
“[E]xtreme weather . . . land-use disputes . . . difficulties delivering natural gas supplies to the power plants that are a crucial backstop to wind and solar energy when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.”
#resilience #infrastructure
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Ugh, gorgeous. Wish I were feelin the breeze and watching that American flag whipping instead of working through these record hot D.C. days! #shipmeant #portsunited #seafarers #essentialworkers
Yes, and great snapshot…..BUT I wonder what the shelf life is for @DoleTweets and @Chiquita *and* @Walmart and @Target freight (they both have huge food sections - do they stock from 3rd parties…?). In other words, a surprisingly large portion of this picture is perishables…
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Had chance to discuss w Minister of Transport Canada the U.S. investments in ports; I acknowledged that his budget, too, prioritizes ports and supply chain digitization. (He winked) Lo and behold next day he was at @PortSaintJohn to announce massive infrastructure grant 👏🏼👏🏼🇨🇦🇺🇸
“The Port of Shanghai didn’t close during the pandemic, but export volumes have fallen by as much as 30% since March . . . Inventory levels are already elevated for a range of companies that are trying to avert shortages or delayed deliveries.” #shipmeant
on.wsj.com/3kSW43S
Good forward-looking piece by @_garrettdowns - still open question whether cargo fluidity provisions make final bill —> watching U.S. #Competition #legislation debate closely to see whether Ocean Shipping Reform included. Siked to be quotes alongside @FMC_gov Chair, Maffei.
More on the Ocean Shipping Reform Act: @agripulse quoted AAPA's @Cary__Davis in a recent piece on #OSRA as it relates to agriculture and the @FMC_gov. He discusses fluidity and why it's important to preserve it.
Check the article out here: agri-pulse.com/articles/1758…
U.S. #Competition #Legislation debate replete with other interesting #supplychain topics, biggest one semiconductor manufacture; but also advanced manufacturing reshoring (eg port equipment), labor force reskilling incl #maritime, targeted tariff reduction, and #trade growth.
If you want the specifics on the Legislative debate, check out @PortsUnited’s letter to #Congress: bit.ly/37lyAkZ
I was gifted @Bose headphones, and I’m testing their limits with early @radiohead - wow the depth and tonality….there are somehow deeper echoes in Yorke’s vocals and in the synth crashes than I ever heard before 😳🤌🦬
“Although import growth is moderating, US ports must adjust to a new elevated baseline of #importvolumes from Asia. The first-quarter imports from Asia were up 46.3 percent from Q1 2020 . . ., and were also 31.1 percent higher than in pre-pandemic Q1 2019…”
-@billmongelluzzo
Ports gotta a) transport and b) use #altfuels, making the topic doubly relevant.
In honor of Earth Day 🌎, and as AAPA is keeping an eye on alternative fuels for ocean shipping, we introduce our 'Fuels of the Future' series. We begin with hydrogen, the first of five spotlights on alternative fuels.
Give it a read at this link: bit.ly/3MnHQ76
U.S. diplomats working overtime with OPEC to ensure rerouting of supply to China to avoid mass destabilization. Strange bedfellows indeed….
Happy Earth Day
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Our lives and lifestyles evolve without consciousness of our interactions w. nature. For this evening’s hike I have my foreign fancy shoes lined up with my organic snacks and locally woven dog leash. Our sourcing is a beautiful complex amalgam.
Litter pickup waste of time, show studies.
Thinking about this while walking the C&O canal…..article w/o much analysis says look to regulate packaging producers, but IF problem is hyper local as studies suggest then maybe hyper local pride prevails .
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Altho total # of exemptions from China #tradewar #tariffs continues to decrease, 352 items granted year-long extensions from tariffs by @USTradeRep45 . Machinery, consumer goods, electronics, bikes.
