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August 3, 2008

Upstate business depends on Port’s success

Michelin's Jim MicaliRetiring chairman and president of Michelin N.A., Jim Micali, says the new Jasper County port is very important to the future of business throughout SC, giving us “a great competitive advantage”.

Companies throughout the state, and indeed the Southeast and beyond, depend on the future success of our coastal ports. With the raw materials they ship in, and the finished products they ship out, that competitive advantage will insure jobs for LowCountry dock workers and truckers far into the future – indeed as long as ships are able to pull up to our docks.

While international conglomerates BMW & Michelin benefit from our coastline while upstate, it’s a harder struggle for the shrimping industry and their boats here. They are gone long before dawn, combating higher fuel costs that increase their cost of business and take away from the success of their bottom-line. We need to help out local businesses too.

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