Enjoyment for the passengers who board the ship and an attraction destinations around the world. Ship ri pair employees hard working hen approximate woman who work on the ships and currently, we are employing at least 220300 people a day full if i am and as the work increases the ewe often see those head counts go over to a thousand people a day and Recreational Boat something something that we are looking forward to an increase in demand particularly as we successfully sail through our species experiences with americas in the next years or so. The foundation of the maritime business is the services that attract boats and ships and keeps us going in business. But commuter ferries and excursions are really kind of the core business of the ports maritime sector. If you take a look at it. We average, we carry on average 3. 2 million ferry passengers annually these are commuter passengers moving between home and work expense and is we transport over 3 million excursion passengers annual lo
Weather officials in japan are warning residents to be be ready for more rain as a severe Tropical Storm churns off the coast. It is being blamed for three deaths. The storm has soaked southern and central communities triggeringing landslides and flooding. Authorities say two people died after falling into irrigation ditches. The storm has injured more than 50 people. And it flooded hundreds of homes. Officials have issued evacuation advisories to nearly 700 households. Roughly 450 households dont have any electricity. The residents of some towns watched and worried as the rain kept falling hour after hour. All that water caused part of a hillside in the central prefecture of nagano to give way. Nhk shows us what happened. Reporter you could hear it coming. Then this. A torrent of mud rushed down a hillside, scattering uprooted trees and dirt and coating a community. Translator the house shook violently. I thought it was an earthquake. I opened the window and saw earth and sound rush i
I found myself asking because the litany of worries that i hear daily on tv and read on the web would frighten anyone out of the stock market. As we know from all the cash thats falling out of equities including probably today, that frights having an impact, even as it clearly took a holiday into todays session. Now, i am not advocating complacency, not after a Beautiful Day like today. That would be irresponsible. We do have a ton of things to be concerned about. Why dont we do this. Lets tick down the differences between what im hearing people worry about versus whats truly worrisome. So we get to the phony worry and the real worry. First the fiscal cliff. Something very important has happened in the discussion of the cliff. And its not that its about to be solved. You see, in the last few weeks its become very apparent that the president doesnt really want to negotiate, or he would be offering some spending cuts to match the speaker of the houses recent offer to vote for some tax in
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The Ferry Building. They also operate out of peer 39, and 41 in the north. The gate b number downtown Ferry Terminal is for the north bound lanes such as value lay hough and gate e is for ala immediate a eoakland and Island Services blue and gold fleet does the operation and is the maintenance of all of these vessels and they will be describing that activity to you in a moment here. In addition, to that, we also have the Ferry Landing at china basin and on average that is home game ain ten dance is dwayned to and from the ballpark by ferries. And with that, we would like again to bring forth, carolyn or began, she is the president of blue and gold fleet and they will shell be able to give us a better insight and explanation on how important the ferry and excursion services are to the port and bay of San Francisco. Commissioners and director moyer, good afternoon. Thank you for giving me the at some point to give you a little i am insight to blue and gold fleet. I would like to start ou