Charleston Harbor Deepening Project Completed Two Years Early

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  • The shipping channel’s new depth allows for two ships to come and go at once regardless of the tidal restrictions for the first time ever.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and multiple dredging partners helped make the project a reality.
  • Before the process began, there were years of work to get the project to the starting line.

The Charleston Harbor is now 52 feet deep after the eighth project to dig to a greater depth in the harbor’s history, reported by Counton.

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https://mfame.guru/charleston-harbor-deepening-project-completed-two-years-early/

U.S. Carrier Reagan to Visit Busan, Drill with South Korean Navy as Tensions with North Korea Increase

Cmdr. Nick Cunningham, commanding officer of the ‘Saberhawks’ of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 77 flies over USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) in an MH-60R Sea Hawk during a change of command ceremony in the Philippine Sea on Aug. 1, 2022. US Navy Photo

The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group will arrive in South Korea on Friday in preparation for large-scale joint naval exercises with Seoul amid concerns mount over North Korea’s likely resumption of nuclear weapons testing, according to...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/19/u-s-carrier-reagan-to-visit-busan-drill-with-south-korean-navy-this-week-as-tensions-with-north-korea-increase

FreightWaves Classics: Fallen Flags – Eastern Air Lines

Many people are interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. Collectively they are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.

This FreightWaves Classics article provides an overview of Eastern Airlines, which was one of the major American airlines for 65 years (1926-1991). 

Overview

Since the barnstorming days of pilots...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-fallen-flags-eastern-air-lines

The light load: Marla meets the watermelon truck

Remember a Stephen King gut bomb by the hyperactive title “Maximum Overdrive” in which the villain and only relatable character was a haunted Western Star 4800 gussied up like an irritable Jiminy Cricket?

Yeah, me neither. Or at least I try not to.

Like all traumatized moviegoers, I should have sought hypnotherapy to blot that 98 minutes from memory, except I kinda sorta knew a cast member: one Marla Maples. Yep, that Miss Maples: a former Mrs. Trump.

We endured the same high school. And though I...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-light-load-marla-meets-the-watermelon-truck

Report to Congress on Japan-U.S. Relations

The following is the April 6, 2021 Congressional Research Service report, Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress.

From the report

Japan is a significant partner of the United States in a number of foreign policy areas, including addressing regional security concerns, which range from hedging against Chinese military modernization to countering threats from North Korea. The U.S.-Japan military alliance, formed in 1952, grants the U.S. military the right to base U.S. troops—currently around...

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/09/report-to-congress-on-japan-u-s-relations

Report to Congress on Japan-U.S. Relations

The following is the April 6, 2021 Congressional Research Service report, Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress.

From the report

Japan is a significant partner of the United States in a number of foreign policy areas, including addressing regional security concerns, which range from hedging against Chinese military modernization to countering threats from North Korea. The U.S.-Japan military alliance, formed in 1952, grants the U.S. military the right to base U.S. troops—currently around...

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/09/report-to-congress-on-japan-u-s-relations

Americans Could Be Wearing Masks Unto 2022

The United States will within hours record its unfathomable 500,000th death from Covid-19 paradoxically at a moment of rare hope in the pandemic. Yet the tragic landmark will occur with the White House loath to predict when the crisis may ease as it balances critical political and epidemiological risks, reports CNN. 

Mask Warning 

A warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci on CNN Sunday that Americans could be wearing masks into 2022 came as leading medical associations pleaded for extended vigilance from...

https://mfame.guru/americans-could-be-wearing-masks-unto-2022/

Uber, judge skeptical of Levandowski’s tactics to protect wealth from creditors

Uber, Judge accuse Levandowski of protecting wealth

Despite a last-minute pardon by former President Donald Trump in his criminal case, tech pioneer Anthony Levandowski’s legal woes continue after he was forced to file for bankruptcy protection on the same day he was ordered to pay Google $179 million in a contract dispute last year.

Uber is now taking issue with the proposed terms of his bankruptcy, claiming he used “legally dubious techniques to shelter his wealth from creditors,” according to an Ars Technica article published earlier Thursday.

“...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/uber-judge-skeptical-of-levandowskis-tactics-to-protect-wealth-from-creditors

Postal Service sets major operational restructuring

The U.S. Postal Service plans a significant restructuring of its business, the quasi-governmental agency said Tuesday.

The Postal Service provided no details or a specific timetable in its announcement, which was included in its fiscal 2021 first-quarter results that included the peak holiday shipping season. The Washington Post reported Monday that a restructuring announcement could come as soon as next week.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, whose background is in private-sector logistics and not...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-sets-major-operational-restructuring

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