Comments on: All Ports, All The Time http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: flipnut http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-44047 flipnut Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:38:26 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-44047 Hey, at least we're not NC who won;t come up with $500k to do the site survey for the NC International terminal. Losing Maersk is no big deal, they suck, and suck hard. Charleston and Savannah are so close that it really doesn't matter which port a container comes into anywats, the rate is about the same, and the trucking cost is within $75 to the door anywhere in the south east. Losing regional DC's to VA or GA is another matter. Hey, at least we’re not NC who won;t come up with $500k to do the site survey for the NC International terminal.

Losing Maersk is no big deal, they suck, and suck hard. Charleston and Savannah are so close that it really doesn’t matter which port a container comes into anywats, the rate is about the same, and the trucking cost is within $75 to the door anywhere in the south east.

Losing regional DC’s to VA or GA is another matter.

]]> By: Tradd http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-44014 Tradd Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:19:41 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-44014 Look at how much Savannah and Norfolk have spent upgrading their rail systems. The future of ports can be found on railways, railways that SC has not invested in. One trip over the 526 bridge shows you how bad the trucks from Wando have destroyed that new road. Without investing in rail, SC will be left in the dust. Instead of destroying a neighborhood to build a road that will just add traffic to the already congested I-26, not to mention the pollution aspect of the argument; SC should invest, as other states are currently doing, in the already in place rail lines that can quickly and efficiently carry the work of dozens of trucks. However, I’m sure that Merrill’s bill is just a stump to get his name out and about for his political future. If that’s the case, then it looks like we can sit around and watch as our only economic assets floats away. Look at how much Savannah and Norfolk have spent upgrading their rail systems. The future of ports can be found on railways, railways that SC has not invested in. One trip over the 526 bridge shows you how bad the trucks from Wando have destroyed that new road. Without investing in rail, SC will be left in the dust. Instead of destroying a neighborhood to build a road that will just add traffic to the already congested I-26, not to mention the pollution aspect of the argument; SC should invest, as other states are currently doing, in the already in place rail lines that can quickly and efficiently carry the work of dozens of trucks. However, I’m sure that Merrill’s bill is just a stump to get his name out and about for his political future. If that’s the case, then it looks like we can sit around and watch as our only economic assets floats away.

]]> By: SPA -socialism in action http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-44013 SPA -socialism in action Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:08:53 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-44013 There is only one thing to do when volume is rapidly declining and you are a state agency operating at 50% of your current capacity. Build another terminal and make it the most expensive one in the nation and build it without rail access- an expensive two legged stool !!!! Rep. Merrill sounds like he is taking a page from the Obama playbook - instead of a car czar - appoint a port czar. If Merrill is a true Republican , I am Frosty the Snowman. Merrill is head of the port legislative delegation- but he has done nothing to improve our port economics and seems to be a puppet of port management. Why not let the free market try to work? - Lease out our existing terminals to private companies and judge port performance on real dollars going into our state Treasury. Our port is supposed to be an asset- yet it is a drain on our state budget- with a proposed road to the new terminal we obviously don't need going to cost state taxpayers over $150 million dollars. You can rest assured nothing will change - we will have the same inept port management - and build another terminal we do not need and can not afford as our economy implodes . There is only one thing to do when volume is rapidly declining and you are a state agency operating at 50% of your current capacity. Build another terminal and make it the most expensive one in the nation and build it without rail access- an expensive two legged stool !!!!

Rep. Merrill sounds like he is taking a page from the Obama playbook – instead of a car czar – appoint a port czar. If Merrill is a true Republican , I am Frosty the Snowman.

Merrill is head of the port legislative delegation- but he has done nothing to improve our port economics and seems to be a puppet of port management.

Why not let the free market try to work? – Lease out our existing terminals to private companies and judge port performance on real dollars going into our state Treasury. Our port is supposed to be an asset- yet it is a drain on our state budget- with a proposed road to the new terminal we obviously don’t need going to cost state taxpayers over $150 million dollars.

You can rest assured nothing will change – we will have the same inept port management – and build another terminal we do not need and can not afford as our economy implodes .

]]> By: BIN News Editorial Staff http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-44007 BIN News Editorial Staff Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:01:01 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-44007 r(e)member....I'm g@y!!! sic(k)....keepin it real always.... BIN News Editorial Staff Flair and Balanced r(e)member….I’m g@y!!!

sic(k)….keepin it real always….

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced

]]> By: Gen. Longstreet http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-44003 Gen. Longstreet Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:12:55 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-44003 What in hell is the "Titanic"? What in hell is the “Titanic”?

]]> By: GetBusy@BIN.com http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-43996 GetBusy@BIN.com Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:41:53 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-43996 Crap, Bin. You fell off the w@gon again. Crap, Bin. You fell off the w@gon again.

]]> By: BIN News Editorial Staff http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/17/all-ports-all-the-time/#comment-43991 BIN News Editorial Staff Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:17:05 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=10597#comment-43991 sic(k) willie, There you goe again with the "deck chairs on the Titanic." What cr@p! Please hire some creative writers. You pretend to be knowledgeable on SPA issues, but your knowledge is as thin as your credibility. You know. Like toilet paper. BIN News Editorial Staff Flair and Balanced sic(k) willie,

There you goe again with the “deck chairs on the Titanic.” What cr@p! Please hire some creative writers. You pretend to be knowledgeable on SPA issues, but your knowledge is as thin as your credibility. You know. Like toilet paper.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced

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