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	<title>Comments on: Maersk Pulling Out Of Charleston</title>
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		<title>By: Barry Joel Mullinax</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-51553</link>
		<dc:creator>Barry Joel Mullinax</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just got layed off I been too the port for over 2 years or longer now I [just got layed off] I got a frind who will let me yous his truck. if some body will let me pull containers for them. I got my TWIK  and my GA Port authority . so Whats up for me</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got layed off I been too the port for over 2 years or longer now I [just got layed off] I got a frind who will let me yous his truck. if some body will let me pull containers for them. I got my TWIK  and my GA Port authority . so Whats up for me</p>
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		<title>By: Groseclose On The Ropes At Ports Authority :: FITSNews</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-45590</link>
		<dc:creator>Groseclose On The Ropes At Ports Authority :: FITSNews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] fact, last month&#8217;s decision by Maersk Sealand - the SPA&#8217;s biggest customer - to pull its business from the Port of Charleston may have been the straw that finally broke the camel&#8217;s [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] fact, last month&#8217;s decision by Maersk Sealand &#8211; the SPA&#8217;s biggest customer &#8211; to pull its business from the Port of Charleston may have been the straw that finally broke the camel&#8217;s [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Give &#8216;Em Hell, Tom Davis :: FITSNews</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44350</link>
		<dc:creator>Give &#8216;Em Hell, Tom Davis :: FITSNews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] course in all fairness to the Ports Authority, they&#8217;ve been pretty busy lately, what with running off their biggest customer and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] course in all fairness to the Ports Authority, they&#8217;ve been pretty busy lately, what with running off their biggest customer and [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Bin News is a misnomer</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44182</link>
		<dc:creator>Bin News is a misnomer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bin News - I do not know anything about you - except I have never heard any &quot;news&quot; come from you. Sic Willie has posted hundreds of stories - apparently you think that two of them were off the mark.  Ok we all get that especially since  you have brought  it up over a hundred times - we get it. 
Sic Willie fills a big void in the news business - What  we read in the print newspapers  is bland and fairly non thought provoking - 

The mainstream press has been wrong on issues of much greater importance than strom&#039;s problem - -you know like us finding WMD in Iraq - I suggest you go bark up that tree -  boys are dying due to that error.

I, and many other readers, like Sic Willie&#039;s track record- if you don&#039;t - go away and leave us alone. If you have  the intelligence and necessary skills to actually find &quot;news&quot;  start your own blog  and see who drops by -</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bin News &#8211; I do not know anything about you &#8211; except I have never heard any &#8220;news&#8221; come from you. Sic Willie has posted hundreds of stories &#8211; apparently you think that two of them were off the mark.  Ok we all get that especially since  you have brought  it up over a hundred times &#8211; we get it.<br />
Sic Willie fills a big void in the news business &#8211; What  we read in the print newspapers  is bland and fairly non thought provoking &#8211; </p>
<p>The mainstream press has been wrong on issues of much greater importance than strom&#8217;s problem &#8211; -you know like us finding WMD in Iraq &#8211; I suggest you go bark up that tree &#8211;  boys are dying due to that error.</p>
<p>I, and many other readers, like Sic Willie&#8217;s track record- if you don&#8217;t &#8211; go away and leave us alone. If you have  the intelligence and necessary skills to actually find &#8220;news&#8221;  start your own blog  and see who drops by -</p>
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		<title>By: BIN News Editorial Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44177</link>
		<dc:creator>BIN News Editorial Staff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silence, Silence!  sic(k) willie never broke this story.  As noted above we don&#039;t need a weatherman to tell us that sic(k) willie is blowing. 

Uhhh, sorry. To tell us the wind is blowing.  

All we need to do is look around.

That&#039;s all sic(k) willie did.

He looked at information available to everyone, claimed to talk to secret sources deep inside the issue (notice he never ever names his sources - wonder why?) and tried to take credit for a story that is as plain at the wart on the back of his head.

The only sources sic(k) willie has are the dust bunnies under his bed.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Always Flair and Balanced</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silence, Silence!  sic(k) willie never broke this story.  As noted above we don&#8217;t need a weatherman to tell us that sic(k) willie is blowing. </p>
<p>Uhhh, sorry. To tell us the wind is blowing.  </p>
<p>All we need to do is look around.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all sic(k) willie did.</p>
<p>He looked at information available to everyone, claimed to talk to secret sources deep inside the issue (notice he never ever names his sources &#8211; wonder why?) and tried to take credit for a story that is as plain at the wart on the back of his head.</p>
<p>The only sources sic(k) willie has are the dust bunnies under his bed.</p>
<p>BIN News Editorial Staff<br />
Always Flair and Balanced</p>
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		<title>By: An economics question for the team</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44167</link>
		<dc:creator>An economics question for the team</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok gents- it&#039;s econ 101 time -South Carolina style. Let&#039;s say you are running the state - and you get to call the play here. 

Your State Ports Authority is handling 1.7 million TEU&#039;s per  year in 2008. The economy is going into a tailspin. Maersk handles 20+% of your port business&#039;s volume and says goodbye - so long - see you later. Now you are left with handling only 1.36 million TEU&#039;s. Your 3 existing terminals can handle 2.5 million TEU&#039;s at current capacity. 

You are scheduled to build the most expensive container terminal in the U.S. with no guarantee of any future business to utilize it - 
The state legislature has already committed $167 million dollars to fund part of a port access road to your proposed new terminal -which by the way is incapable of handling rail .

Other agencies desperately need funds now- not for business that might happen 4 or 5 years from now - but to keep law enforcement and public health agencies running. 

What play are you going to call coach?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok gents- it&#8217;s econ 101 time -South Carolina style. Let&#8217;s say you are running the state &#8211; and you get to call the play here. </p>
<p>Your State Ports Authority is handling 1.7 million TEU&#8217;s per  year in 2008. The economy is going into a tailspin. Maersk handles 20+% of your port business&#8217;s volume and says goodbye &#8211; so long &#8211; see you later. Now you are left with handling only 1.36 million TEU&#8217;s. Your 3 existing terminals can handle 2.5 million TEU&#8217;s at current capacity. </p>
<p>You are scheduled to build the most expensive container terminal in the U.S. with no guarantee of any future business to utilize it &#8211;<br />
The state legislature has already committed $167 million dollars to fund part of a port access road to your proposed new terminal -which by the way is incapable of handling rail .</p>
<p>Other agencies desperately need funds now- not for business that might happen 4 or 5 years from now &#8211; but to keep law enforcement and public health agencies running. </p>
<p>What play are you going to call coach?</p>
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		<title>By: CL</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44164</link>
		<dc:creator>CL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Go vote for more repubs and watch the wealth keep shifting to the well off!&quot;

And you keep voting Democrat so the wealth can disappear.  The economy is not a zero sum game.  Under capitalism, we have witnessed the greatest wealth generation in human history.  Yet politicians on both sides have amnesia on this point and fall all over themselves to cripple the operation of the free market.  I will continue to vote Republican, because it is the only party where you find candidates who remember that our prosperity is a result of capitalism, not in spite of it. And I would ask you remember that Obama gave you fair warning in his nomination speech:

&quot;This was the moment, this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation . . .&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Go vote for more repubs and watch the wealth keep shifting to the well off!&#8221;</p>
<p>And you keep voting Democrat so the wealth can disappear.  The economy is not a zero sum game.  Under capitalism, we have witnessed the greatest wealth generation in human history.  Yet politicians on both sides have amnesia on this point and fall all over themselves to cripple the operation of the free market.  I will continue to vote Republican, because it is the only party where you find candidates who remember that our prosperity is a result of capitalism, not in spite of it. And I would ask you remember that Obama gave you fair warning in his nomination speech:</p>
<p>&#8220;This was the moment, this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation . . .&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/12/18/maersk-pulling-out-of-charleston/#comment-44163</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Charleston is not the only port with declining volumes and not the only place the Maersk made committments to.  The Georgia Ports Authority relieved Maersk of the shortfalls there in &quot;good faith&quot; in order to maintain a valued customer.  Why cant the SPA do the same?

This is not a union issue but an issue where the Supreme Port Authority is simply chasing away their biggest customer and eliminating a lot or Revenue of SC.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Charleston is not the only port with declining volumes and not the only place the Maersk made committments to.  The Georgia Ports Authority relieved Maersk of the shortfalls there in &#8220;good faith&#8221; in order to maintain a valued customer.  Why cant the SPA do the same?</p>
<p>This is not a union issue but an issue where the Supreme Port Authority is simply chasing away their biggest customer and eliminating a lot or Revenue of SC.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Roger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good news for the &#039;closed shop&#039; union off Norfolk Southern delivering those trucks from Norfolk.  Hope my stock goes up!  Long Shoreman will survive and prosper!  Some of the best paid employees in the State......  Some of you guys are just jealous that your little weasel jobs don&#039;t come close in pay!  Go vote for more repubs and watch the wealth keep shifting to the well off!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good news for the &#8216;closed shop&#8217; union off Norfolk Southern delivering those trucks from Norfolk.  Hope my stock goes up!  Long Shoreman will survive and prosper!  Some of the best paid employees in the State&#8230;&#8230;  Some of you guys are just jealous that your little weasel jobs don&#8217;t come close in pay!  Go vote for more repubs and watch the wealth keep shifting to the well off!</p>
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		<title>By: Maersk leaving equal bigger  bonuses for port execs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maersk leaving equal bigger  bonuses for port execs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>With port volume continuing to plummet, I have to assume port executive bonuses should double or triple this next year.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With port volume continuing to plummet, I have to assume port executive bonuses should double or triple this next year.</p>
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