What Ratio Of Our Port Operations are Internationally Owned?

[bpilgrim]

how bout our airports?

has the M$M reported on this yet?

anyone know the break down?

just curious :evilgrin:

peace

[Burried News]

1. I think you have to ask Richard Perle at Trireme Ltd

http://www.hereinreality.com/likashing.html
Excerpt:
Li Ka-shing: New Ruler of the Information Superhighway

Global Crossing, Enron's evil twin, is about to be "rescued" by a Chinese billionaire with ties to the People's Liberation Army.
Why not? He already controls the Panama Canal. Will it threaten national security to have a Chinese company controlling the fiber-optic network our defense department uses to communicate and store data?
That's something we should be asking.
In 1999, several Republicans on Capitol Hill were worried about the fact that the Panama Canal had fallen into the hands of the Chinese. After almost 100 years of US control of this vital port for moving goods and troops around the world, the time had come to withdraw our troops and give the canal back to Panama. By that time, Panama had already leased the ports at both ends of the canal to a Hong Kong company owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing in a deal many considered to be underhanded.
By that time, too, control of Hong Kong was returned from the British government to the People's Republic of China, making the Li Ka-shing's company a Chinese company.

It made Trent Lott and a few others nervous, as it had in 1997 when Hutchison-Whampoa, Li Ka-shing's company, originally sought to control the ports. That year Lott wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense William Cohen saying, "U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage through the Panama Canal by Hutchinson, an arm of the People's Liberation Army." Moreover, "the Chinese Communist Party will gain an intelligence information advantage...."
Nancy Dorn Lott and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) fought vocally against the lease of the ports, but Li Ka-shing had one important thing going for him, a lobbyist named Nancy Dorn from Texas. This seasoned foreign agent had been a Defense Department official under Ronald Reagan and was Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil) under George Bush, Sr. Her responsibilities included matters associated with the Panama Canal Commission With Li's bankroll and Nancy's experience, she easily convinced Congress that Hutchison-Whampoa would be no threat to commerce or national security and the company secured a 25-year renewable lease.
Incidentally, Nancy Dorn now holds the job of Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, appointed by President Bush in December and confirmed in February. Her job responsibilities are "the preparation, management and administration of the federal budget."

[rsmith6621]

2. Indianapolis International Is Owned......

By a Britsh Management group...the same one that owns London Gatwick......It is also the only privatly owned Internatyional airport in the USA.

[bbinacan]

3. I don't think any are

internationally owned, but run by foreign cos. I think the last US port operator was CSX and they were bought by DPW in early 2005. I may be wrong, though.:shrug:

[DemBones DemBones]

4. I'm quite curious myself. I didn't know that a UK company

controlled the six ports now up for grabs and I'm outraged that this country has allowed any foreign-owned country to control our ports.

[rman]

5. "China eyes U.S. ports"

China eyes U.S. ports: concerns are being raised about the involvement in a Pentagon-funded port-security program of a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party leadership - Nation: homeland security
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_41_18/ai_95358027
Insight on the News, Nov 26, 2002 by J. Michael Waller

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I've heard but can't confirm that a number of US deep-sea ports have been sold to China during the Clinton era.

[Donna Zen]

6. About 100%

...or damn close to that. The west coast is mostly in Asian hands. Oh...but as I understand it, we, the American taxpayers, get to pay for construction and improvement costs.

These ports bring in royalty money which keeps the balance of payment sheets from looking worse than they are. A nation in deep debt with plenty of dollars floating around, needs to give its lenders a place to spend them. What else can we sell...we don't make much other than bombs.