UAE Port Contract Flap
Recently, 8,600 U.S. companies have been taken over by foreign ownership, while 20 percent of all U.S. assets are held by foreigners. The politicians and media were silent.
Now, a United Arab Emirates’ enterprise will soon be operating stevedoring companies in six U.S. ports. The politicians and media are screaming.
Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates, (UAE), and owned by that government, would soon be running some operations in the ports of Baltimore, New York, Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, Miami and New Orleans.
The federal government has already given its approval to the proposal and said it had passed a "vigorous review," which included national security concerns.
This contract is a RENEWAL, the organization presently in charge of much of the stevedoring operations is British-based, privately owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, (P&O).
The P&O has recently been purchased by Dubai Ports World for $6.8 billion. Therefore, UAE’s Dubai Ports World will be the firm bidding competitively for contracts to handle cargo coming off or loading on to ships in the six ports where P&O Ports has contracts.
Dubai Ports World would in effect be hiring the longshoremen to load and unload the cargo from the vessels. The vast majority of the cargo handling in the six U.S. ports mentioned above is done by union labor, who are locally based workers.
They have always been and will still be card carrying members of the International Longshoreman's Association (AFL-CIO).
Question is, how many union card carrying terrorists are there? and how many non union terrorists could the UAE based company hire to work in our ports? I suppose the British owned P&O were dumping loads of tea at every opportunity, eh?
Now, a United Arab Emirates’ enterprise will soon be operating stevedoring companies in six U.S. ports. The politicians and media are screaming.
Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates, (UAE), and owned by that government, would soon be running some operations in the ports of Baltimore, New York, Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, Miami and New Orleans.
The federal government has already given its approval to the proposal and said it had passed a "vigorous review," which included national security concerns.
This contract is a RENEWAL, the organization presently in charge of much of the stevedoring operations is British-based, privately owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, (P&O).
The P&O has recently been purchased by Dubai Ports World for $6.8 billion. Therefore, UAE’s Dubai Ports World will be the firm bidding competitively for contracts to handle cargo coming off or loading on to ships in the six ports where P&O Ports has contracts.
Dubai Ports World would in effect be hiring the longshoremen to load and unload the cargo from the vessels. The vast majority of the cargo handling in the six U.S. ports mentioned above is done by union labor, who are locally based workers.
They have always been and will still be card carrying members of the International Longshoreman's Association (AFL-CIO).
Question is, how many union card carrying terrorists are there? and how many non union terrorists could the UAE based company hire to work in our ports? I suppose the British owned P&O were dumping loads of tea at every opportunity, eh?
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