[CPEO-MEF] Shipbreaking in Brownsville

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port busy dismantling 10 ships from Ghost Fleet

By GILBERTO SALINAS
The Brownsville Herald (TX)
October 15, 2004

The shipbreaking business at the Port of Brownsville is as strong as 
steel today and about to get stronger with the addition of four more 
ships for dismantling.

The U.S. Maritime Administration recently announced four 
ship-dismantling contracts for All Star Metals and Marine Metals at the 
port, which in turn will create and solidify hundreds of trade jobs, 
said port director Raul Besteiro.


"I think it will be a good Christmas for a lot of families in 
Brownsville," said Besteiro, who also is the chief executive officer for 
the Brownsville Navigation District.

"We're getting more ships and that means hundreds of jobs. They're going 
to need a lot of cutters and people who know how to cut and move steel," 
he said. "There's going to be a lot of work for people here."

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for the entire article, see
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=P61621_0_10_0_C

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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