b'20American Journal ofTransportation ajot.com(ESTABLISHEScontin- (FORUMcontinued fromU.S., which has set up tariffs,andcontinuedbyPresident ued from page 18) page 19) isgoingtochange.RecentJoeBiden,wereimpeding quarries in upstate New Yorkmembership to 500. tariffs are, quite frankly, partinternational trade from real-andalreadyshipsrocksandDrew recalled that someofpoliticsinglobalambi- izing its full potential. Asked aggregatedowntheHudsonyears back in 1986, when hetionsthey use much morewhathethoughtaboutthe River on its own fleet of tugsfirstreceivedthelicenseinsticks than carrots, obviously.tariffs,Drewusedthecar-and barges to the City, whereBoston, he saw how compa- The problem is that you arerot-and-stickmetaphorto theyareusedforshore- nies started out as local, thenpointingyourfingeratthedescribethesituationTar-linestrengtheningprojects,theybecamestatewideand,other country and say we williffsarepartofthecarrot-asphaltandreadymixpro- later,nationalbeforetheyrestrict your products.Theyand-stick approach though in duction, and other uses.thoughtofbecominginter- play that game, but the realsome cases they become the national. Today, there is noweakness, to my mind, is itsticks part, he said. o PPortunity Forg rowth newly-startedcompanythatignoressomedomesticasMelissa Miller, director of The terminal itself is nodoes not think of going inter- well as international policy.World Trade Center in KansasMelissa Miller, director of World stranger to the type of cargonationalthere is a worldAskedhowhesawtheCity,covering14countiesTrade Center in Kansas CitytheCarverCompaniesismarket out there today.OneescalatingIsrael-Hamascon- acrossthestatesofKansasofthebusinesscommunity introducing.NorthShoreof the things we can do is toflictanditsimpactonship- andMissouri,withsomefrom whom we were handling Terminal for years has beenhelp them get into that worldping, possibly with the Suez2000members,highlightedthese requests were looking at the home base for the Corbettmarket.WecanhelpthemCanalevenclosingdown,thatherorganizationlever- near shorethey were not Companies and has been usedgettherebydefiningtradeDrew said that shipping wouldageditsrelationswithotherlooking to come back to the to receive and distribute sand,broadly, not just selling prod- continuethoughthevesselsWTCcounterpartsinotherUnited States but looking at and aggregate materials. ucts and buying products will take longer route, and thiscountriesduringthecriti- MexicoandCanada.They Weseethisdevelop- trade is also investment andwill result in more costs.Butcalsupply-chaindisruptions.also looked at Southeast Asia mentasanopportunityfornext to investment is educa- theywillemphasizeontheWhen supply chain was dis- but did not necessarily want growth,saidKelly,notingtionandknowledge-sharing.safety factor, he added.rupted, it was caused by theto abandon their supply chain thatthecompanyhaslongWe are approaching all thoseSomeforeigndelegatestariffs against China, as wellin Asia but, instead, shut those desiredtoestablishapres- fronts, he said.wereprivatelyexpressingasCOVIDandothersupplya little bit to other countries. enceinStatenIsland.OneDrewsaidthatthecur- concernthattariffsimposedchaindisruptors,includ- (FORUMcontinued on advantageofoperatingoutrenttradesituationintheby the Trump administrationing the Suez Canal, etc.Lotpage 22)oftheStatenIslandfacility is that Carver will no longer need to ferry its vessels back upnorthforminormainte-nance and repairs, he noted. Another is that the terminal is right next to the Bayonne Bridge, said Kelly, making itconvenienttodistribute cargo to New Jersey.b ranChingo utCarver Companies started out as a construction company inupstateNewYorkinthe 1980s. It has since branched outtoincluderealestate development,propertyman-agement,mining,logistics, andstevedoring.Besidesits NewYorkStateenterprises, thecompanyalsooperates terminalsandperformsste-vedoring in Charleston, South Carolina,Manatee,Florida, NewBrunswick,Canada andSomerset,Massachusetts. The Canadian operations, the companys newest, include a granitequarry,maritimeter-minal, tug and barge services, and warehousing.ThePortCoeymansis ourflagshipandwasour originalport,saidKelly. We own all our own facili-ties.Thecompanyalso owns and operates an indus-trialparkandarecreational boat marina in Coeymans.CarverCompaniesis alreadybargingaggregate downriver to the Staten Island facility. From there, the mate-rial is trucked to projects in Brooklyn,LongIsland,and other points in the region.For the future, Kelly sees the terminal as expanding way beyondhandlingaggregates. We are talking to a number of offshore wind companies, he said. We envision the possibil-ity of the terminal functioning as a small marshalling yard for offshorewindcomponents. TheCarverCompanieshas alsoproposedupgradingthe PortofCoeymanstoenable that facility to support offshore wind projects.'