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High Speed Ferry Transportation of the 21st Century
April 3, 2001
Pequot Towers, Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT
| 8:00-9:00
am |
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Coffee
and Registration |
| 9:00 |
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Opening:
Richard Hayward, Vice Chairman, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation |
| 9:10 |
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City
Planning; Rail Tunnel for Freight; Freight Ferries |
| 10:15 |
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Break |
| 10:45 |
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Shoreside
Development |
| 11:15 |
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Mayors
of Port Cities Panel |
| 12:00
pm |
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Water
Transportation: Can It Bring Parks Alive? |
| 12:30 |
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Luncheon |
| 1:45 |
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Panel:
What's Ahead for the Focus of American Shipbuilders? Labor problems?
Costs for Shipyards? High Technologies for Cost-Effectiveness? How
can shipyards help finance vessels? Tax incentives to allow banks
to finance ferries? |
| 2:15 |
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Break |
| 2:30 |
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Panel:
New Technologies in Motors & Fuels-Gas Turbines, Natural Gas Ferries,
Low S Diesel |
| 3:15 |
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Safety
Issues of High Speed Craft |
| 4:00 |
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Why
American Shipbuilders? |
| 4:15 |
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Low
Cost, Medium-Speed Ferries |
| 4:30 |
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Student
Award |
| 4:35
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Questions
and Answers |
| 4:45 |
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Reception
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Dredging
Remediation and Environmentally Sustainable Harbors
April 4, 2001
Grand Pequot Tower, Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT
| 8:00-9:00 am |
|
Coffee
& Registration |
| 9:00 am |
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Beneficial Reuse of Dredge Materials; Dredging & Environmentally
Sound Harbors |
| 9:30 |
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Redevelopment of the Port |
| 10:00 |
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Break |
| 10:20 |
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Economic Needs of Ports, Including Infrastructure &
Workforce |
| 11:00 |
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Sustainable Harbors Exchange. |
| 11:30 |
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Control and Management of Ships' Ballast
Water/Invasive Species |
| 12:15 pm |
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Luncheon |
| 1:30 |
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Finding the Money/Funding |
| 1:45 |
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Sampling/Testing Waters for Water Quality and Sediment. |
| 2:15 |
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Break |
| 2:30 |
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Need for Regulations to Allow Disposal of Dredged Material
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| 3:15 |
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Criminality of Hazardous Waste Disposal/Oil Spill. |
| 3:45 |
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Sustainable Harbors, Dredging Wrap-Up |
| 4:45 |
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Reception |
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