Exerpted from The Daily Astorian article by Katie Wilson:"Port of Astoria forges close ties with South Korea"
"Commission to enter a ‘sister port’ agreement."
A memorandum of understanding lays out a relationship between the U.S. port and the Korean port. The goal is to strengthen trade development between the two ports by exchanging information about port operations, cargo handling equipment, maintenance, shipping plans and trends; by opening up the ports and studying each other's operations; by exchanging trade information that could help in the growth of the ports; and by providing introductions to key public and private officials."
Uh-Oh!
Exciting news, indeed, but for that last line in the paragraph above...."and by providing introductions to key public and private officials."
In my view and being very apprehensive at the moment about this current Port Commission, its make-up and recent decisions, I would think this decision and its magnitude should be an issue that goes way above the local GOB network and should involve all elements of County and Lower Columbia River region governments and the citizen/constituents as well before any final decision is made to avoid the likes of "The Skipanon Peninsula, Calpine-OLNG Boondoggle we are now going to be forced to live with for the next 60 years, it appears.
Let's not forget that two Port Commissioners involved in that blight on our Port history and the same local leaders approached in the private meetings are still here.
Let's pray that this will not be "Deja Vu all over again" and any introduction to and fro between "Port" and the Buson shippers inlcude all of us in this process this time.
"Commission to enter a ‘sister port’ agreement."
A memorandum of understanding lays out a relationship between the U.S. port and the Korean port. The goal is to strengthen trade development between the two ports by exchanging information about port operations, cargo handling equipment, maintenance, shipping plans and trends; by opening up the ports and studying each other's operations; by exchanging trade information that could help in the growth of the ports; and by providing introductions to key public and private officials."
Uh-Oh!
Exciting news, indeed, but for that last line in the paragraph above...."and by providing introductions to key public and private officials."
In my view and being very apprehensive at the moment about this current Port Commission, its make-up and recent decisions, I would think this decision and its magnitude should be an issue that goes way above the local GOB network and should involve all elements of County and Lower Columbia River region governments and the citizen/constituents as well before any final decision is made to avoid the likes of "The Skipanon Peninsula, Calpine-OLNG Boondoggle we are now going to be forced to live with for the next 60 years, it appears.
Let's not forget that two Port Commissioners involved in that blight on our Port history and the same local leaders approached in the private meetings are still here.
Let's pray that this will not be "Deja Vu all over again" and any introduction to and fro between "Port" and the Buson shippers inlcude all of us in this process this time.
