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Business opportunities in Haiti for U.S. Construction Firms, material exporters

Business opportunity for U.S. Construction Firms in Haiti

 

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) www.iadb.org/educacion is advertising proposals for the construction of 39 schools in Haiti. These are big contracts designed to attract international reputable construction firms. If your organization is interested in contributing to the reconstruction of the education sector in Haiti, we recommend that you consult the prequalification process launched this week by the Fonds d’Assistance Économique et Sociale (FAES) for the reconstruction of 39 schools at the following link: http://www.devbusiness.com/ProjectViewer.aspx?ProjectType=1&ProjectID=30355.

 

To view other procurement notices and projects in Haiti please visit the following link: http://www.devbusiness.com/Search/Search.aspx?PreLoadProjects=1.

 For a strategy to combine on-dock rail and the Miami River carriers to deliver pre-fab school modules,  contact RnD Solutions director@eyerdam.com

Capt. Jim Jim Ratican advances to legend status

 

 

 

 

(with reporting from Miami Herald) 

Capt. Jim Jim Ratican, a tugboat captain known to some along the urban waterway as “the mayor of the Miami River,’’ and to others as a passionate environmentalist, birdwatcher and sea-cow protector, succumbed to heart failure Tuesday in Homestead, where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law, Trish and Mark Yanes.

 

“He was on the river for 35 years,’’ Trish Yanes told the Miami Herald. “He knew every bridge tender...He was a great advocate for the manatees. The picture on his phone is a manatee and its baby...His Christmas tree is covered with nautical-themed ornaments. Lots of manatees.’’

 

For 18 years, until illness forced him to retire in April, Ratican worked for Miami-based P&L Towing. His boss, Capt. Beau Payne hired Ratican when Payne formed his own company.

 

Payne described Ratican as “larger than life,’’ kind hearted and unforgettable in tropical-print shirts and flip-flops.

 

“I know the world’s a worse place now that he’s not in it,’’ Payne said.

 

Most of Ratican’s work involved towing ships up and down a 5.5-mile stretch of the Miami River. Payne remembers Ratican as so familiar with the river’s quirks, he could step outside the wheelhouse briefly, to wave at friends along the way, even under tow.

 

“Mainly, he drove the front boat and I drove the back boat,’’ said Payne. “It’s a very narrow channel and quite difficult. But Jim would be out waving and talking to people on the banks. I’d yell at him to get back in the wheelhouse.

 

“He knew every inch of that river: every boat, every person. He knew the skinny on this guy and the dirty on that guy.’’

 

 “On the Miami River, you find yourself in these incredible situations, and you have to be a certain caliber of person to do this type of work,’’ Payne said. “It’s a different kind of lifestyle. One day it’s beating the heck out of you with these waves, and an hour later it’s the most beautiful thing ever.’’

 

What “Jim Jim’’ Ratican couldn’t handle was polluters — he’d call the Coast Guard — and the relentless encroachment of luxury high-rises on the river’s gritty banks.

“He hated the development,’’ Payne said. “He said it was putting a lot of [river] people out of work,’’ and creating a “wind tunnel’’ effect along the water.

He had particular disdain for the half-empty towers where lights on timers offered the illusion of occupancy.

“It would be 11:35 at night and Jim would do a countdown on the radio, and all the building timers would go off.’’

 

Born James Balfour Ratican Jr. on Nov. 5, 1946, in St. Louis, Ratican was 65, and had long suffered from diabetes, his sister said. He’d been a widower since his wife, Mary Robinson Ricks Ratican — another animal-loving “free spirit’’ — died in 2006.

Jim graduated from Columbus High School then studied aviation at Miami Dade College (then Miami-Dade Junior College).

In addition to his sister, Ratican is survived by his late wife’s son, Troy Ricks, of Miami.

He’ll be remembered at the 11 a.m. Mass Sept. 30 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 106 SE First Dr., Homestead. The family requests memorial donations to Save the Manatee Club: savethemanatee.org.

 

Read the Herald version at: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/20/v-print/3012796/jim-ratican-mayor-of-the-miami.html#storylink=cpy

An idea to end port corruption: give customs agents a specified share.

To help tackle the corruption in the nation's seaports, the Federal Government has been called upon to grant a percentage of all collected revenue on duty on her behalf to licensed customs agents.

The move, if implemented is seen in some quarters, has been identified as capable of addressing the root cause of bribery and corruption in the seaports, airports and international borders across the country.

A frontline freight forwarder and Chief Executive Officer of Shiba Services Limited, Mr. Babatunde Shittu, speaking in Lagos, argued that corruption would be greatly reduced if government gives agents certain percentage of revenue collected.

Shittu spoke on the sideline of an executive course organised by the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), and explained that such action would reduce the temptation for clearing agents to cut corners on behalf of importers, exporters and other port users.

"Like I mentioned earlier, for every duty or tax collected for the government and I want to widen it, not only the government, even the money collected on behalf of terminal operators, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), they are supposed to give agents a percentage. This is because we are collecting these monies for them", he said.

Reminded that agents are paid by their principals and that his demand would be asking for too much, he pointed out that what they get from their importers is for services they have rendered and stressed that without them making honest declaration, government would continue to lose revenue.

Shittu argued that no agent would want to cut corner if he knows that he would get a percentage of every job handled.

His words: "Take for example, if I handle a job which has duty of say N100 million and I know that I will get, let's say, five per cent of that amount which is N5 million, why should I want to cut corners for the importer?"

He flayed the domination of the freight forwarding business by foreigners, and pointed out that it was because Nigerian operators lacked technical knowledge.

According to him, "most Nigerian operators limit themselves to clearing and forwarding aspect of the business. Therefore, they miss the bigger picture where the big money is. Our international partners sometimes find it difficult to use the facilities of the local agents because they believe that they are not well equipped."

He, however, stressed that CRFFN has started the training of registered practitioners as the first step to empowering them with the necessary knowledge to enable them compete effectively with their foreign counterparts.

Shittu explained that CRFFN has started the training for chief executive officers of all the registered freight forwarding companies, at the end of which it would then be extended to staff of these companies. "Now we are more equipped and more empowered through the training", he added.

Hurricane Isaac expected off Florida in 96 hours

Summary - www.seshippingnews  for full details

Isaac will grow slowly until it emerges on the north side of Cuba heading toward Florida. At that point – about 96 hours – Isaac will be a hurricane with winds approaching 90 MPH and ready to grow:

Discussion

SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES A LARGE CENTRAL DENSE OVERCAST FEATURE

HAS DEVELOPED OVER THE LOW-LEVEL CENTER...WHICH INCLUDES SOME COLD

CLOUD TOPS OF -82 TO -86C VERY NEAR THE CENTER.

THE INITIAL MOTION ESTIMATE IS 270/15 KT. THE INITIAL POSITION IS A

BLEND OF THE RECON FIXES AND SATELLITE POSITIONS...AND CONTINUITY

WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST TRACK. 

AT 72 AND 96 HOURS...THE INTENSITY HAS BEEN DECREASED DUE TO

EXPECTED LAND INTERACTION WITH HAITI AND EASTERN CUBA. 

AFTER 96 HOURS...HOWEVER...ISAAC SHOULD BE MOVING BACK OVER THE VERY WARM WATER BETWEEN CUBA AND FLORIDA. WITH SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES

EXPECTED TO BE NEAR 30C AND THE GFS AND UKMET MODELS DEPICTING A

EXTENSIVE UPPER-LEVEL OUTFLOW REGIME COMPLETE WITH DUAL OUTFLOW

CHANNELS TO THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST.

..STRENGTHENING APPEARS LIKELY. THE OFFICIAL INTENSITY REMAINS ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE DUE TO UNCERTAINTY IN HOW LONG AND HOW MUCH ISAAC WILL INTERACT WITH HISPANIOLA AND CUBA...

FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS

INIT  22/0900Z 15.5N  57.3W   40 KT  45 MPH

 12H  22/1800Z 15.9N  59.7W   45 KT  50 MPH

 24H  23/0600Z 16.3N  62.8W   55 KT  65 MPH

 36H  23/1800Z 16.8N  65.7W   65 KT  75 MPH

 48H  24/0600Z 17.3N  68.4W   75 KT  85 MPH

 72H  25/0600Z 18.8N  73.2W   65 KT  75 MPH...OVER WATER

 96H  26/0600Z 21.8N  77.1W   65 KT  75 MPH...OVER WATER

120H  27/0600Z 24.8N  80.0W   80 KT  90 MPH

 

Foreign Trade Zone not Free Trade Zone approved for most of North Dade

A boost for South Florida’s economy
BY BILL JOHNSON

www.miamidade.gov/portofmiami/

 

In a move that enhances Miami-Dade County’s status as a center for international trade and commerce, the U.S. Department of Commerce this week provided a grant of authority for PortMiami Foreign Trade Zone No. 281, a new mega-Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) that stretches north from Southwest Eighth Street to the Broward County line. The new zone will be among the nation’s first to operate under new, streamlined processes.
This is great news for our Miami-Dade County business community, as we work to establish conditions that will fuel job-creation and boost our economy. FTZs provide a valuable tool to private industry — importers/exporters, warehouse operators, manufacturers — encouraging new commerce by allowing U.S. companies to compete on equal footing with foreign countries in both domestic and international markets.
An FTZ allows for the deferral or reduction of tariff payments on imported goods and materials until they move into the domestic marketplace and, if the finished product is exported to foreign markets, no tariffs are collected at all.
In a tough economy, FTZs are a powerful mechanism to keep good jobs in the United States and to advance manufacturing in Florida.
The benefits of foreign trade zones are tailor-made for Miami, as our Customs District leads the nation in producing a trade surplus, exporting 1.5 times what we import. Yet, despite the natural linkage between South Florida’s international trading patterns and the benefits of FTZ designation, we have been greatly under-represented in the number and size of FTZ sites across the country.
As reported by the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones last month, impressive growth in merchandise received in, and exports from, foreign trade zones has outpaced comparable growth in the overall U.S. economy as the nation continues to recover from a devastating recession. During FY 2010, the last year data is available, FTZ exports totaled $34.8 billion, a 23 percent increase from the previous year outpacing the 16 percent growth in exports generated by the overall U.S. economy during the same period. If those statistics are any indication, Miami-Dade County is now poised to reap the significant economic benefits of FTZs.
In addition to the seaport, the new FTZ-281 encompasses powerful economic engines including Miami International Airport and Opa-locka Airport, as well as the Miami River and the Doral/Hialeah warehousing areas. Additionally there are more than 100 international consulates, trade offices and binational chambers of commerce within the zone.
We’re grateful that the U.S. Department of Commerce agreed with our initiative to create this new mega-FTZ. Combined with the deepening of the Port’s channel to 50 feet to allow the docking of super-sized container cargo ships, the re-introduction of on-dock rail, and the new port tunnel now under construction, the new FTZ-281 will greatly increase our ability to manufacture goods as well as move cargo through Miami. That means more commerce, more jobs and more opportunities for our residents. And, it means that Miami-Dade County will further cement its rightful place as a leading center for international trade and commerce.
Nobody does “trade” like Miami. And, now we will do it better than ever.
Bill Johnson is the director of PortMiami.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/07/2938376/a-boost-for-south-floridas-economy.html#storylink=cpy

One day shipping service Miami River to Havana begins July 11

 

 

    MIAMI, July 10, 2012 — Commencing July 11, 2012 at 12 pm Eastern Time, International Port Corp (IPC), via CubaPACK, will begin offering the only weekly, OFAC- and US Department of Commerce-licensed, direct maritime humanitarian shipment service from the Miami River Port, USA to the Port of Havana, Cuba.

 

At 7:00 am July 12, 2012, the ship will dock at the port of Havana ready to off load, marking a historic occasion and making it the first direct Miami to Cuba maritime shipment in over 50 years.

 

IPC’s new “direct next day to port service” supersedes the old third country maritime shipping times to the port of Havana of 30 to 60 days and offers the optional convenience of island-wide home delivery via CubaPACK, the largest delivery service company on the island.

 

Once in port, recipients have the option of picking up their shipments or using a one-week all-points Havana delivery service or a two-week island-wide delivery option supported by CubaPACK.

 

As of June 18, 2012, Cuban authorities officially curtailed allotments of duty free food parcels. In response to this new regulation, IPC offers a fully compliant small parcel and heavy durable goods service facilitating the humanitarian shipment of large items such as construction materials, home furniture, domestic electrical and electronic goods and car/machine parts.

 

Local area merchants are extremely pleased with IPC’s new services. Many Hialeah and Little Havana merchants are currently making direct deliveries to IPC’s processing facilities at the Miami River Port and represent a sizable proportion of the cargo on its historic, direct, Miami to Cuba maiden voyage of July 11, 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Leonardo Sanchez-Adega - Press Info

International Port Corp - direct Miami-Cuba Service

3032 NW North River Drive

Miami, FL 33142

Phone: 305-635-0145

Alt. Phone: 786-657-1902

Email: yoenvio@yahoo.com

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 CSMS# 12-000260 – CBP warns: Get Ready for ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) or Find a New Business

07/10/2012 09:36 AM EDT

 ACE Portal Accounts

 

Are You Ready for ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1)?

 

US Customs and Border Protection wants you to know that the 90 day countdown has begun!

Effective September 29, 2012, ACE will be the only approved EDI for transmitting required advance rail and sea cargo information and ABI in-bond transactions to CBP.

As of June 29, 2012, 91% of ocean carriers and 70% of ABI software developers impacted by the transition to M1 have either completed or are in the onboarding process. All rail carriers are either in production or currently testing.

If you are part of the 9% of the ocean carriers or the 30% of the ABI software developers who are NOT yet testing ACE Rail and Sea Manifest, NOW is the time to contact your Client Representative for assistance.

It can take up to twelve weeks to complete the programming and certification testing required to begin transmitting rail and sea cargo information via ACE. If you submit sea cargo information or if you file ABI in-bond transactions or receive broker download information via ABI, you or your software provider must transition to ACE, and there is no time to waste.

In order to ensure that EDI messages for rail and sea manifest and ABI in-bond transactions do not fail, it is essential that by September 29, 2012:

 

1. The required programming changes are completed,

 

2. Certification testing is completed in coordination with your Client Rep, AND

 

3. The switch to production for ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea is made.

 

For additional information, please refer to the recently-conducted webinar available on CBP.gov at https://connect.hsin.gov/p67194661/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal.

 

Further information on ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea is available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/manifest_railsea/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panama's Colon Free Market gets major boost

Panama Fully Joins Central American Integration System, Signs EU Pact

July 2, 2012 | 2:17

 By the Caribbean Journal staff

Panama has fully joined the Central American Integration System, in a move the country hopes will improve its trade with the region.

SICA is Central America’s regional economic, cultural and political organization. While Panama had been a member of SICA, it had not previously participated in SICA’s integration subsystem.

“We are financially part of Central America, and this will make the exchange of goods and services in the region optimized to benefit the population,” Panama President Ricardo Martinelli said following the 39th Summit of SICA in Honduras.

As part of its incorporation, Panama joined the Comprehensive Association Agreement signed by Central America and the European Union last week.

The agreement, which was signed by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, has three pillars: political dialogue, cooperation and trade.

“The association agreement constitutes a new milestone in our longstanding relationship,” said Christian Leffler, European External Action Service Managing Director for the Americas. “It is the strongest institutional bond that can tie the EU to its partners.”

The EU called it a “comprehensive tool that provides with all the means needed for an integrated relation, going from political dialogue to cooperation and trade.”

On the trade front, the agreement eliminates tariffs on manufactured goods, fisheries and agriculture.

“In the current economic situation, it is vital for European businesses to count on a stable and predictable business and investment environment,” said European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht in a statement. “The region-to-region trade deal will help to establish major business opportunities for both sides.”

The EU will liberalize 91 percent of tariff lines for Central American exports after the agreement enters into force. Central America will do the same for 48 percent of lines, completing the liberalization schedule within a 10-year period under the agreement, among other tenets.

“European exporters will save around [$114 million] on customs per year, and European service providers, such as for telecoms and transport, will get greater market access,” De Gucht said.

Last year, the European Union was Central America’s second-largest trade partner after the United States.

Panama was the third-largest importer in the Central American region of European exports.

Panamanian Trade Minister Ricardo Quijano signed the agreement to officially incorporate Panama into SICA, which took place at the 39th Meeting of SICA in Honduras.

 

Peanuts for Port Security as 2012 dole is dismal for Florida terminals

 

Orin Black, a board member of the Miami River Marine Group secured a $22,690 Port Security Grant for improved security at his cargo terminal and yacht marina on the Miami River, the only grant approved for the River's 22 terminals. In 2011 16 subgrantees -- all applicants- received Port Security Grants through the Miami River Marine Group fiduciary agent. 

 Florida port terminals had a difficult time qualifying for port security loans without the assistance of skilled and experienced fiduciary agents with only two terminals --5th Street Marina on the Miami River and Seaboard Marine at the Port of Miami -- securing important funds to deter terrorism. Here are the numbers:

FY 2012 PSGP Allocations

 http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=6178/

  

FLORIDA and GEORGIA

Jacksonville Jacksonville Port Authority $219,375

Miami

5th Street Marina LLC $22,690

Miami-Dade County $842,000

Miami-Dade County, Fire Rescue Department $180,000

Seaboard Marine $763,500

Tampa Bay

City of Tampa Police Department $126,735

Manatee County Port Authority $25,000

Tampa Fire Rescue $127,902

Tampa Port Authority $814,988

GA Savannah Georgia Ports Authority $480,788

 

 

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

I

CA

Los Angeles-Long Beach

City of Long Beach, Fire Department $527,534

City of Los Angeles Harbor Department $6,900,000

International Transportation Service $320,000

Long Beach Container, Inc. $3,335,988

Long Beach Police Department $73,500

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department $450,000

Los Angeles Police Department $784,119

Port of Long Beach $2,880,135

Seaside Transportation Services, LLC $150,000

TraPac, Inc. $1,005,155

San Francisco Bay

Alameda County Sheriff's Office $975,000

City of Alameda Fire Department $375,000

City of Richmond Police Department $596,226

City of South San Francisco Fire Department $24,500

Port of Oakland $3,543,750

Port of Stockton $1,736,612

Ports America Outer Harbor Terminal $1,282,000

Redwood City Fire Department $30,690

Richmond Fire Department $466,578

Solano County Sheriff's office $316,370

LA New Orleans

City of New Orleans $848,291

Lower Mississippi River Port Wide Strategic

Security Council $4,975,631

St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office $135,000

NJ/PA/DE Delaware Bay

City of Chester $780,000

City of Philadelphia- Police $510,000

Delaware City Refining Company LLC $630,000

Delaware State Police $509,966

New Jersey Department of Environmental

Protection $222,435

Paulsboro Refining Company LLC $630,000

NY/NJ New York/New Jersey

Bayonne Fire Department $25,000

City of Elizabeth Police Department $97,760

City of Linden Fire Department $23,850

Global Terminal - Jersey City $1,140,820

Hoboken Fire Department $24,824

Jersey City Dept. of Fire and Emergency Services $350,000

Jersey City Police Department $41,250

Kearny Fire Department (Town of Kearny, NJ) $21,800

New York City Department of Transportation $1,350,000

New York City Fire Department $1,001,891

B-12

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

I

NY/NJ New York/New Jersey

New York City Police Department $5,457,085

New York Cruise Lines $37,582

NYC Department of Environmental Protection $1,425,072

NYS Division of Military and Naval Affairs $39,143

Port Imperial Ferry Corp. $120,000

Sprague Mt. Vernon $21,000

Sunoco Logistics Partners - Newark NJ $70,000

The Borough of Edgewater $382,453

Union County Hazmat $93,750

Union County Police $24,000

TX Houston-Galveston

Board of Trustees of the Galveston Wharves $93,750

City of Baytown $48,750

City of Houston, Mayor's Office of Public Safety &

Homeland Security $1,689,415

City of Pasadena, Texas $3,292,500

Houston Ship Channel Security District $750,000

Industrial Terminals, L.P. $92,000

NuStar Energy, L.P. $198,042

Port of Houston Authority $1,106,512

Port of Texas City Security Council, Inc. $363,327

WA Puget Sound

City of Port Angeles $50,000

Marine Exchange of Puget Sound $538,125

Port of Everett $55,725

Port of Olympia $299,028

San Juan County Sheriff's Office $785,000

Seattle Fire Department $1,522,100

Tulalip Tribes $637,500

Washington State Department of Transportation -

Ferries Division $473,770

Washington State Patrol $166,525

Group I Total $58,923,829

II

CA San Diego San Diego Unified Port District $153,750

San Diego Unified Port District Harbor Police $249,900

CT Long Island Sound

City of Bridgeport $269,607

City of New Haven $520,000

City of Stamford $221,891

Connecticut State Police $529,000

Cross Sound Ferry Services, Inc. $24,974

Greenwich Police Department $45,000

Groton Town Police Department $25,000

JDZ Marine LLC dba TowBoatUS Mystic $24,970

Milford Police Department $375,000

B-13

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

II

CT Long Island Sound Norwich CT Police Department $61,152

Town of Waterford $124,208

FL

Jacksonville Jacksonville Port Authority $219,375

Miami

5th Street Marina LLC $22,690

Miami-Dade County $842,000

Miami-Dade County, Fire Rescue Department $180,000

Seaboard Marine $763,500

Tampa Bay

City of Tampa Police Department $126,735

Manatee County Port Authority $25,000

Tampa Fire Rescue $127,902

Tampa Port Authority $814,988

GA Savannah Georgia Ports Authority $480,788

HI Honolulu Hawaii Department of Defense $3,891,500

IN/IL Southern Tip of Lake

Michigan

Illinois State Police Special Operations Command -

North (Chicago) $163,500

Indiana Department of Natural Resources $115,438

Village of Romeoville $56,250

Will County Sheriff's Office $787,500

KY Louisville Indiana State Police $222,995

Jeffersonville Fire Department $272,607

LA Lake Charles PPG Industries Inc. $2,350,000

MA Boston

Beverly Fire Department $262,500

Massachusetts Environmental Police $1,322,341

Massachusetts Port Authority $1,113,941

Sprague Quincy $18,525

Sprague TRT $23,644

Sunoco Logistics Partners - Boston $170,000

The City of Quincy - Police Department $24,900

Town of Marshfield $290,006

MD Baltimore

AMPORTS, INC. $25,000

Maryland Department of State Police $611,475

Maryland Dept. of Transportation - MPA $299,376

MN Minneapolis-St. Paul St. Paul, MN Emergency Management $314,910

MO Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners $212,400

Missouri State Highway Patrol $24,000

MO/IL St. Louis City of Madison $232,000

Illinois State Police Special Operations Command $32,750

B-14

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

II

NY Buffalo

City of Tonawanda $139,500

County of Erie $135,935

NOCO Energy Corp. $250,000

SC Charleston

Charleston County Government $120,000

City of Charleston Fire Department $561,750

City of Charleston Police Department $47,458

Mount Pleasant Fire Department $202,500

South Carolina State Ports Authority $225,000

TN Memphis City of Memphis - Division of Police Services $24,000

TX

Corpus Christi City of Corpus Christi $22,268

Refinery Terminal Fire Company $134,936

Sabine-Neches River

City of Beaumont $1,452,525

Jefferson County, Texas $121,500

Nederland Fire Rescue $2,100,169

Port Neches Police Department $1,900,280

Port of Beaumont Navigation District $58,176

Port of Port Arthur Navigation District $322,998

South East Texas Regional Planning Commission $349,287

VA Hampton Roads

Accurate Marine Environmental, Inc. $100,000

Chesapeake Police Department $54,000

City of Newport News $33,750

City of Newport News Police Department $65,625

City of Suffolk, Virginia $55,500

James City County Police Department $30,964

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries $225,000

Virginia Port Authority $1,020,600

WA/OR/ID Columbia-Snake River System Oregon State Police $320,000

United Grain Corporation $111,291

Group II Total $29,250,000

III

AL Guntersville City Of Guntersville DBA Police Department $533,267

CA Sacramento County of Sacramento $24,125

FL Pensacola City of Niceville $240,937

GA Brunswick Logistec USA, Inc. $19,465

IL Peoria Illinois State Police Special Operations Command $81,263

IN Mount Vernon Indiana Department of Natural Resources $73,401

Indiana State Police $24,540

LA Port Fourchon/The LOOP Greater Lafourche Port Commission $707,771

MI

Monroe Virtual Emergency Services $24,795

Muskegon County of Muskegon $305,000

Port Huron City of Port Huron Fire Department $206,250

County of St. Clair $333,750

MS Gulfport Gulfport Fire Department $373,575

B-15

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

III

NY Albany Sprague Albany $13,500

OH

Cleveland

City of Cleveland - Public Safety $155,102

Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Dam

Safety $8,400

Lorain Lorain County Sheriff's Office $103,500

OK Tulsa, Port of Catoosa Tulsa Port Authority $380,000

PR Ponce Autonomous Municipality of Ponce $32,508

TX Brownsville Brownsville Navigation District $372,964

VA Richmond City of Richmond, Virginia $135,185

WI Milwaukee City of Milwaukee $301,873

Group III Total $4,451,171

All Other

Port

Areas

AK

Juneau Allen Marine Inc. $38,265

Seward Alaska Railroad Corporation $60,300

AL Decatur Ascend Performance Materials $150,000

AR Blytheville and Osceola Mississippi County Sheriff Department $300,562

CT

Norwalk City of Norwalk $128,220

City of Norwalk Police Department $15,479

Stonington Stonington Police Department $375,000

Trumbull Town of Trumbull $69,841

DC/MD/VA National Capital Region City of Alexandria $379,193

Maryland Department of Natural Resources $127,046

FL Key West City of Key West Port $90,000

GU Saipan Commonwealth Ports Authority $361,064

IL/IA Quad Cities Davenport Fire Department $12,000

Illinois State Police Special Operations Command $24,000

IN/KY Evansville City of Evansville $131,775

Indiana State Police $24,765

KY/IL Paducah McCracken County $67,500

Metropolis Fire Department $145,910

MA

Barnstable Town of Barnstable Harbormaster $90,000

Duxbury Duxbury Harbormaster Department $139,346

Falmouth Town of Falmouth, MA $25,000

New Bedford Port of New Bedford $285,000

Oak Bluffs Town of Oak Bluffs Emergency Management

Department $45,600

Woods Hole Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

Steamship Authority $219,688

ME Maine Coast Maine Department of Marine Resources $25,000

B-16

Group State Port Area Entity Allocation

All Other

Port

Areas

MI

Holland, Port Sheldon, and

Grand Haven Ottawa County Central Dispatch Authority $21,400

Ludington City of Ludington $24,999

St. Clair Shores St Clair Shores Fire Department $10,000

Traverse City Peninsula Township $317,150

NJ Ocean City Ocean City, New Jersey Police Department $92,722

NY

Oswego

City of Oswego Fire Department $149,538

Port of Oswego Authority $24,500

Sprague Oswego $23,500

Suffolk County Suffolk County Police Department $400,219

Suffolk County Sheriff's Office $25,000

OH Sandusky Miller Boat Line $76,254

VT Lake Champlain Vermont Department of Public Safety $25,000

WA Grays Harbor Port of Grays Harbor $265,650

WI

Marinette Marinette County Emergency Management $39,485

Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Bay Police Department $24,999

UMR Pool 5 Fountain City Police Department $24,030

All Other Port Areas Total $4,875,000

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Table 8. FY 2012 TSGP Allocations

State Agency Allocation

California

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority $2,484,254

Orange County Transportation Authority $200,000

Sacramento Regional Transit District $93,287

San Diego Metropolitan Transit System $100,000

San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (ACE Rail) $75,000

Southern California Regional Rail Authority $150,000

District of Columbia Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority $7,789,284

Georgia Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority $2,115,315

Hawaii City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services $175,000

Illinois

Chicago Transit Authority $10,149,230

Commuter Rail Division of the RTA d/b/a Metra $1,371,231

Maryland Maryland Transit Administration $3,773,540

Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority $6,600,000

Missouri Bi-State Development Agency $28,400

New Jersey

Delaware River Port Authority $500,000

New Jersey Transit $9,862,155

New York

Metropolitan Transportation Authority $27,838,954

New York City Department of Transportation $5,200,000

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey $5,550,000

North Carolina City of Charlotte (Charlotte Area Transit System) CATS $116,072

Ohio Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority $30,438

Oregon Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) $286,856

Pennsylvania

Port Authority of Allegheny County $233,584

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) $2,402,400

Texas Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas $25,000

Washington Pierce Transit $350,000

Total $87,500,000

 

 

$97 million is all FEMA has for 2012 port security grants - NDGrants.com

DHS Announces More Than $1.3 Billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Preparedness Grant Awards

Release Date: June 29, 2012

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced the final allocations for seven FY 2012 Preparedness Grant programs, totaling more than $1.3 billion to assist states, urban areas, tribal and territorial governments, non-profit agencies, and the private sector in strengthening our nation’s ability to prevent, protect, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies in support of the National Preparedness Goal (NPG). In FY 2012, DHS preparedness grants were reduced by nearly $1 billion from the FY 2011 enacted level and $1.5 billion below the President’s FY 2012 request.

The FY 2012 grants focus on the nation’s highest risk areas, including urban areas that continue to face the most significant threats. Dedicated funding is provided for law enforcement and terrorism prevention activities throughout the country to prepare for and prevent and respond to pre-operational activity and other crimes that are precursors or indicators of terrorist activity.

Given limited resources, grantees are encouraged to utilize grant funding to maintain and sustain current capabilities through investments in training and exercises, updates to current planning and procedures, and lifecycle replacement of equipment. New capabilities that are built using homeland security grant funding must be deployable if needed to support regional and national efforts. All capabilities being built or sustained must have a clear linkage to the core capabilities in the NPG.

The FY 2012 grants incorporate input from DHS’ state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners and detail specific steps undertaken by DHS to improve the ability of state and local partners to apply for and utilize grant funding. On February 13, 2012, the Department released the Guidance to State Administrative Agencies to Expedite the Expenditure of Certain DHS/FEMA Grant Funding, which provided a series of initiatives to help accelerate the drawdown of grant funding, enabling grantees to put previously awarded grant funding to work now in order to build and sustain core capabilities and address evolving threats.

FEMA proposed a new vision for homeland security grants in the FY 2013 President’s budget that focuses on building and sustaining core capabilities associated with the five mission areas within the NPG that are readily deployable and cross-jurisdictional, helping to elevate nationwide preparedness. The Administration looks forward to working with Congress and stakeholders to enable all levels of government to build and sustain, in a collaborative way, the core capabilities necessary to prepare for incidents that pose the greatest risk to the security of the nation.

Preparedness Grant Program Allocations for Fiscal Year 2012:

Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP)—provides more than $830 million for states and urban areas to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other threats. 

• State Homeland Security Program (SHSP)—provides $294 million to support the implementation of state homeland security strategies to build and strengthen preparedness capabilities at all levels.
• Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI)—provides more than $490 million to enhance regional preparedness and capabilities in 31 high-threat, high-density areas.
• Operation Stonegarden (OPSG)—provides more than $46 million to enhance cooperation and coordination among federal, state, territorial, tribal and local law enforcement agencies to jointly enhance security along the United States land and water borders.

Per the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53) (hereafter “9/11 Act”), states are required to ensure that at least 25 percent of the combined HSGP funds allocated under SHSP and UASI are dedicated towards law enforcement terrorism prevention activities (LETPA) linked to one or more core capabilities within the NPG. The LETPA allocation can be from SHSP, UASI or both.

Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Program—provides more than $339 million to assist state and local governments in enhancing and sustaining all-hazards emergency management capabilities.

Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program (THSGP)—provides $6 million to eligible tribal applicants to implement preparedness initiatives to help strengthen the nation against risk associated with potential terrorist attacks and other hazards.

Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP)—provides $10 million to support target hardening and other physical security enhancements for nonprofit organizations determined to be at high risk of a terrorist attack and located within one of the FY 2012 UASI-eligible urban areas.

Intercity Passenger Rail (Amtrak) Program—provides $10 million to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from terrorism and increase the resilience of the Amtrak rail system.

Port Security Grant Program (PSGP)—provides more than $97 million to help protect critical port infrastructure from terrorism, enhance maritime domain awareness, and strengthen risk management capabilities in order to protect against improvised explosive devices and other non-conventional weapons.

Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP)—provides more than $87 million to owners and operators of transit systems to protect critical surface transportation and the traveling public from acts of terrorism and to increase the resilience of transit infrastructure.

Further information on DHS preparedness grant programs is available at www.dhs.gov and www.fema.gov/grants.