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   Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫 (inquiline@union.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:36:00 JST Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

   So much new bridge, so much concrete

   the new #LongBeach bridge won't be torn down by a measly container ship strike

   #shipping #Dali #Baltimore #ports #LosAngeles

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     Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫 (inquiline@union.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:35:58 JST Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

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     Lol I'm so bad at self-promotion that it didn't occur to me until today to share my op-ed from last year on #ports #Shipping

     Almost certainly the #Baltimore bridge rebuild will happen quickly (at public expense), facilitate a much greater capacity for goods movement, & be presented as an inevitability, without public officials stopping to entertain *whether* this is a good idea whatsoever

     https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-30/ports-los-angeles-long-beach-supply-chain-shipping

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     Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫 (inquiline@union.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:35:59 JST Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

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     "Cargo ships have gotten larger over the decades, with many easily weighing more than 100,000 tons.

     .... experts say the #Baltimore collapse does not expose significant vulnerabilities in the major bridges near ports across #California, which has the two busiest in the nation: the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which handle about 40% of U.S. container imports from Asia"

     (for more on how LA leaned into scale, see my book #OilBeach !)

     https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-26/are-californias-big-bridges-safe-from-cargo-ships

     #shipping #ports

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     Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫 (inquiline@union.place)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 04:36:08 JST Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

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     ... and, here's the CEO of #Flexport arguing for exactly this:

     https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse.html

     #Baltimore #shipping #ports