American companies can't afford to do it because of union costs. On 2/22/06, Nick McClure wrote: > But the London company got the contract via a public bid. > > The congress would have to remove the contract from the British company, > which would in essence prevent the sale to the UAE, as the UAE wouldn't want > to buy a company without the American ports as part of the deal. > > But the US would then have to rebid the contract or do it themselves. > > And best I can tell there isn't an American company capable of doing this, > and I bet the Brits wouldn't even put in a bid for it. > > So we would be faced with Singapore or Dubai, or one of the other companies > that does this stuff.
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