Before a flame war breaks out, we should remember that Hutchison Whampoa is the world’s most experienced operator of ports, and that company helped develop many of the modern techniques used to load and unload container ships during the 1970’s and 1980’s in Hong Kong.
We should also remember that it’s a lot shorter from China through the Panama Canal to Galveston for Chinese vessels carrying troops, armament and invaders...
Additionally, the 2010 election results threw the ‘rats out of power in not only Galveston, but in Galveston County as a whole. They had been running the city and County since Reconstruction. It was the Democrat Party that killed the Port of Galveston.
Now that Republicans are running things, and most of those are of the Tea Party-ish persuasion, things are changing.
Give them a chance...