"More than anything else, Portsmouth International Port offers a living, breathing argument for public ownership. Not only does it work – it thrives. The port’s cruise and ferry terminal, which opened in 2011, uses thermal energy from seawater to heat and cool the building – using only 20% of the energy one would expect from a traditional system."
Aaron Bastani on how one councillor's vote saved Portsmouth Port from #privatisation.
"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 !)
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
... and, here's the CEO of #Flexport arguing for exactly this (actually he goes bigger: Baltimore incident is an excuse to "modernize" aka scale up all the ports):
My angle critiquing ever-bigger ships isn't really about infrastructural retrofitting; it's that a system of endless expansion is already serving us terribly (see: planetary boundaries, Indigenous dispossession, pollution, etc.). Do economic planners want de-growth on terms they sort of planned for? Or reactive free-fall? Those are the two possibilities
My homelab is still in its infancy as I’m at the start of my self-hosting journey. I’m now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I’d like to....
That one spins up N8N with a worker that handles your workflows, which is useful if you want to scale up in the future. In any case either compose file would let you access N8N locally on port 5678, and the port can be altered in the compose file itself, where you change the left side to the port you want. docs.docker.com/compose/…/05-services/#ports
Contested Ports is a collaborative, non-exhaustive platform that documents conflicts between people and #ports. It highlights community resistance strategies and is a hub to share resources that deepen critical engagement with the unsustainable effects of #maritime#logistics
"The Biden administration launched a $3 billion program Wednesday to reduce #AirPollution and greenhouse gas #emissions at U.S. #ports, in a move that could particularly benefit low-income communities living near industrialized #harbors.
Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, the program will support zero-emissions vessels, electric charging stations and other technologies at coastal and inland ports as well as at rail and truck hubs known as “dry ports.”"
Listening to Susanna Lidström talk at UCSD Science Studies #STS about the Argos ocean sensing program. "Argos renders the ocean historical, and predictable"
I make a similar argument in #OilBeach, which is that environmental data produced to "monitor" industrial activity in the #ports is actually brought to bear in keeping that industrial activity going, not in imposing meaningful checks on it.
"The video "Intermodal" provides a minimalist portrayal of this critical yet awe-inspiring spectacle. Through its static shots of cargo ships being loaded & unloaded, the video highlights the overwhelming sense of anxiety that these operations can produce, while inviting viewers to contemplate their complicity in a system that values profit margins, speed and efficiency over people and the planet"
Afaik #RISCV64 is Tier2 in #FreeBSD and should therefore provide at least the basic port and pkg support? „This includes support for basic packages such as ports-mgmt/pkg“
Mer Rouge : l' #Afrique du Sud tourne la #crise à son avantage
Je ne vois que des avantages pour nos #ports En tant que pays, nous devons simplement nous assurer que nos opérations sont bien rodées et que nous créons ou utilisons au maximum cette opportunité qui va se présenter à nous", a déclaré Alan Winde, premier ministre de la province du Cap-Occidental.
"Teachers on strike block ports in Montreal and Quebec City... The Port of Montreal said the strike action had a 'major impact' on operations Thursday." 🏗️:solidarity:
"one of the most outstanding recent investigations into the hard-to-narrate infrastructure of modern #ports and their place in the patterns of global conflict and commerce. Much of her book concerns the post-World War II development of tanker, bulk, and container #shipping along the coastlines of the Arab Peninsula, and the fantasy futures authored by the speculators, emirates, empires, and mercenary #logistics companies that profited from it"
⬆️ is a review of Sinews of War and Trade by Laleh Khalili:
"the story of what the making of new #ports and #shipping#infrastructure has meant not only for the Arabian peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond. #Maritime#transportation is not simply an enabling companion of trade, but central to the very fabric of global #capitalism. The ports that serve maritime trade, #logistics, and hydrocarbon transport create racialised hierarchies of labour..."
Ports of LA/Long Beach stand ready to absorb cargo disrupted by Red Sea fighting related to #Gaza conflict:
“Very few people had Houthi rebels disrupting the global supply chain on their bingo card,” said Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime historian and host of a YouTube channel called “What is going on with shipping?”
I sat in a session today with representatives of DP World, CMA CGN, and Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, talking about port resilience in the face of climate change.
When you run into those people that “don’t believe in climate change,” you can tell them two of the largest shipping companies and the world’s largest transshipment port are already dealing with what they don’t believe in.
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
Will installing Traefik scarper my plans
My homelab is still in its infancy as I’m at the start of my self-hosting journey. I’m now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I’d like to....