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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for July 17, 2018

    SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Safe Spaces   By Chris Philips,  Managing Editor     In 1911, the Washington State Port District Actauthorized voters to create public port districts that could acquire, construct, and operate waterways, docks, wharves, and other harbor improvements; rail and […]

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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for June 12, 2018

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION     INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Can You Dig It? By Chris Philips, Managing Editor     In mid-April, Nancy McLernon, president and CEO of Organization for International Investment, wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which she claimed that only a handful of US ports could […]

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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for May 29, 2018

      SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Law or Not?   By Chris Philips, Managing Editor     In late 2013 the State of Washington announced its intention to petition the EPA to declare all of Puget Sound a “No Discharge Zone” (NDZ). The […]

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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for May 22, 2018

      SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Law or Not?   By Chris Philips, Managing Editor     In late 2013 the State of Washington announced its intention to petition the EPA to declare all of Puget Sound a “No Discharge Zone” (NDZ). The […]

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Long Beach Press Telegram – Congress to dockworkers, employers: Reach contract agreement soon

Congress to dockworkers, employers: Reach contract agreement soon Concerned that talks could lead to a potential shutdown at West Coast ports, more than 80 members of the U.S. Congress urged the groups representing 20,000 dockworkers and their employers to come to an agreement on a labor contract. by Karen Robes Meeks in the Long Beach […]

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