Brown water or blue water, we are all Mariners and are still needed even if under appreciated…
[QUOTE=capbubba;108944]Brown water or blue water, we are all Mariners and are still needed even if under appreciated…[/QUOTE]
Ain’t that the damn truth…
Worth repeating… Forbes got it wrong, again. We’re just the Oxcart drivers, the emperor’s buddies need to move their grain, coal, oil etc. as cheaply and as fast as possible. If the road is too rough for the Oxcart then alternate means must be employed, IE hand carry… (Trucks/Rail) If economically unfeasible then the emperor’s Buddies can’t sell their goods… Paving the road for the Oxcart is not for the benefit of the Oxcart, but for the benefit of the owners of the freight, and, presumably, the consumers thereof. (Assuming of course, that the Oxcart driver can afford the grain, coal, oil, etc…)
And so where is MarAd in all of this?
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[QUOTE=catherder;108970]And so where is MarAd in all of this?
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I suppose their place in all this is that they’re the ones saying that the new focus of Kings Point is going to be this nation’s brown water merchant fleet. How that will turn out and what affect it will actually have on the “big picture”, as Forbes looks at it, is hard to say.
Yes, Kings point will supply the brown water “leaders,” not the mariners