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re: Houston has destroyed New Orleans Port traffic
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:48 pm to Bmath
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:48 pm to Bmath
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You don't think the extra time and hassle of navigating the MS River
Not really. Pilot fees count for less than 1% of the cost to get a ship from point A to point B.
There isnt a hassle getting the ships in and out of the river to make companies go elsewhere.
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and the riverboat pilot monopoly has anything to do with this?
Every ship coming into a port in the US requires a pilot. And fwiw, since this thread is comparing Houston to NOLA, Houston ship pilots make more than NOLA pilots.
Nola has the hardest route in the country and make a little above average for ship pilots in the country. They earn their money
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Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:49 pm to Deactived
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Every ship coming into a port in the US requires a pilot. And fwiw, since this thread is comparing Houston to NOLA, Houston ship pilots make more than NOLA pilots.
Same song and dance for the Columbia river in Oregon.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 9:23 pm to Deactived
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Nola has the hardest route in the country and make a little above average for ship pilots in the country. They earn their money.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 9:44 pm to Deactived
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They earn their money
It's a monopoly with legalized nepotism full of families whose members make $500K a year. They paid the crooked LA legislature to protect them by law and now everyone in the state pays for them to suckle off of the states economic teat. They don't 'work hard' for their $500K/yr, they scam it from everyone else in the state.
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