Longshoremen Vital to an efficient port, longshoremen load , unload and perform a number of other duties to the cargo coming across our docks. Houston’s positive relations with union and non-union labor alike keep us an outlier: strong, efficient, and focused on commerce.
It is fun to mull over theories of what ifs about the past, but the Colonel is right: you have to know where you have been (as a port family) as you set the course for the future. The City of Houston has succeeded because of the Port, and now the City provides the Port great advantages by having a large, diverse, well-educated population that needs access to global logistic chains. But if we are to pass our global port advantages on to future generations we have some challenges we need to address: we have a channel that is being under maintained; we have looming gaps in our skilled workforce when it comes to tradesmen; and we have no national or state maritime strategy to politically support us and ensure future development. I look forward to working with you in 2013 on these challenges, and wish all in the port family good health and prosperity in 2013.
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