Urban Engineers March For Babies
Tioga Terminal Ships Autos Out
A little-known but important part of the auto shipping market has recently come to the Port of Philadelphia – outbound used cars. Delaware River Stevedores is now loading one vessel a month at the Tioga Marine Terminal which it manages. The carrier is Eukor, said DRS President Bob Palaima. “We’re
loading about 300 vehicles a month, going to West Africa,” said Palaima. “We’ve done a couple of ships already and hope the business will grow.” Certainly this market will grow. While US government export statistics are not easy to interpret, even in 1999 the value of used-vehicle exports totaled $941 million. Industry
observers say it is much larger today. A boom in demand for automobiles throughout the developing world means hundreds of millions of consumers there will buy vehicles that are no longer of interest to the American driver. PRPA was of great assistance in landing this business for DRS, Palaima noted.
URBAN Engineers participants raised $1,700 for the March of Dimes "2013 March for Babies" event. pants raised $1,700 for the Dimes estimated that more great cause,” said Urban’s than seven million people in Orla Pease, PE, PTOE, who cause. Since 1970, the March of 900 communities across the helped organize the firm’s participation. “Knowing our Dimes has been holding the nation participated. “What a great turnout for efforts will go toward helping annual event in communities nationwide, raising more than the event. Numerous members make a difference in the lives $2 billion to “benefit all ba- of Urban and their families of local mothers and their babies.” This year the March of come together to support a bies is a great feeling.
The Public Record • June 13, 2013
Members of Urban Engineers participated in the March of Dimes’ “2013 March for Babies,” a familyoriented event featuring a three-mile walk and five-kilometer run along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Leading up the event, participants were encouraged to raise money in support of the March of Dimes mission, “To improve the health of babies JOINING Aker Shipyard boilermaker Fred Chamberlain by preventing birth defects, was Congressman Bob Brady in Navy Yard. Brady and State infant mortality, and premaRep. Bill Keller meet with union workers at one of many port ture birth.” Urban’s particievents they attend.
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