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Crumbling Infrastructure on Steroids

March 27, 2011 at 8:14 PM Leave a comment

If you’re like me, when you think of “crumbling U.S. infrastructure” you think of roads and bridges.

Whack my forehead.  I had no idea.  It’s much worse than that.  I almost wish I hadn’t come across this article — so troubling:  U.S.  Faces Shipping Blockage.  It expands the notion of crumbling infrastructure by a thousand percent:

From the Financial Times:

Ron Widdows, chief executive of Neptune Orient Lines, says lack of investment in infrastructure in the US could pose a significant drawback on the east coast as ships become larger. Robet Wright, transport correspondent, gives an analysis of his interview

I have a limited subscription to the Financial Times and they are not nice when it comes to bloggers in pajamas who live in the dark dungeons of their parents’ basement eat Cheetos  all day (that would not be me) copying their stuff so I hesitate to put up much more, but see the video at the link above if you’re so inclined.  (Again, subscription required.)

Anyway, I read that to mean our ports and docks will potentially be too small for the big new ships the 21st Century world is developing, thus hindering shipping into the US.  (That’s what happens when American legislators spend their time bickering about things like state guns.  The world passes you by.)

“Crumbling infrastructure?”  What an understatement.

Wow.

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