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ILWU Locals 19 and 52 speak out on protecting jobs at Port of Seattle in October.
Longshore workers and their attorneys Friday vowed to keep fighting the proposed Sodo sports arena after a King County judge tossed their lawsuit challenging the location.
“We will continue to oppose this project and the development of a sports-entertainment complex in Sodo that would … drive maritime jobs and business away from Seattle,” said Cameron Williams, president of Local 19 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Their attorneys took a slightly more conciliatory tone, saying they would be actively involved in the upcoming environmental review, but hadn’t yet decided whether to appeal the ruling.
“We’re going to be fully involved as they look at traffic impacts, freight movement and the lives of the families that depend on these jobs,” said David Mann, attorney for the union.
The longshore workers said the agreement designated the Sodo site before a required state environmental assessment — including an examination of alternate sites — had been done.
Union officials said they welcomed the return of the Sonics, but not in Sodo.
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Two Hong Kong ship management companies contacted by the South China Morning Post said the tail shaft was custom-made for each vessel so it was difficult to estimate the cost of repairs. But they said repairs could cost up to at least US$2.25 million, which should be covered by Samsung’s insurers.A massive containership that was meant to be the pride of Orient Overseas Container Line is languishing in a South Korean shipyard facing expensive repairs.
The OOCL Brussels is one of 10 ships, and the first in OOCL logos, ordered by parent Orient Overseas (International) for US$1.36 billion in 2011.
The ship was to have entered service on OOCL’s important Asia-Europe trades at the end of last month, but now would not be delivered by Samsung until March 26.
Delivery of the ship has been delayed after the tail shaft, which connects the engine to the propeller, was damaged during engine tests.
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ABC reported that the case of Mobile, Ala., is cautionary: Mobile wooed Carnival for years, borrowing $20 million to build a terminal Carnival would find acceptable. Carnival eventually agreed to base a ship there, and, in 2007 named Mobile its port of the year. The city spent $2.6 million more, according the Times, on a new gangway. Then, two years later, Carnival left, saying fuel costs had made Mobile a more expensive base than higher-trafficked, more popular New Orleans.Sociologist Ross Klein, a professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, has made cruise ships and their economic impact on ports his area of study. He tells ABC News that determining whether any given port makes (or loses) money on cruise ship tourism is “a bit of a hard one.”
It depends, he says, on such variables as whether one includes the cost of the terminal and its related infrastructure, or the cost of ships’ impact on the local environment and quality of life (noise, traffic congestion, more pedestrians, and more need for security, for example).
Klein says the effect of cruise ship tourism on the economies of U.S. port cities has been mixed.
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