[buckalfa]

Winning. Jobs and investment. All good. Yet the Port Authority is a quasi state governmental agency which operates not only on revenues it generates in fees but also on borrowing backed by the state government. Do Freepers believe that such agencies are an appropriate function of government or should I cling to my old belief that this is corporate welfare and therefore is bad.

[dangus]

The general sense is that this is a result of manufacturing jobs moving to SC?

[DiogenesLamp]

S.C. Ports Authority reports record volume for FY2017

I thought this would amuse you.

:)

[Conan the Librarian]

If they try hard enough, they might catch up to Savannah.

(ducks...runs away!)

[texas booster]

By definition ports need both federal and state oversight. Just the type of this mentioned in the constitution.

Who pays for it all, what taxes are levied and whose geese are ultimately cooked is why citizens get to raise their pitchforks, if cronyism becomes too blatant. Tis true if it is corporations or unions involved.

Thanks for the article. I am scouting locations on the East Coast to build a small distribution system, and this makes SC more competitive than I had previously considered.

[Iscool]

“Such growth enables the port to continue to make the necessary investments in equipment and infrastructure to support the big ships being deployed to the East Coast today.”

The article doesn't say whether this growth is the result of more container ships coming in from China and around the world or from goods leaving the U.S...I'd bet it's the former...