This past week, we reported that the FAA denied the $3.5 million grant request for taxiway and apron for VT-MAE hangar. The city says it has secured money from the state to…
Tag: Port of Pensacola
850 Magazine highlights Escambia County-Port, Airport, IHMC, Hospitals, Studers…and more
850 Magazine has published its Escambia County Journal. Here are the features: Small Town, Big Ideas Top researchers from around the globe come to the institute looking for ways to help machines…
Pensacola City Council debates Fire Boat House tonight
A stir has been created by a request from the mayor’s office to use sidewalk funds to build a boathouse at the Port of Pensacola for the fire department’s boat. The lowest…
Mayor announces deal with Offshore Inland Marine
In December 2012, the city of Pensacola was about to announce a lease agreement with Offshore Inland when the mayor kicked the deal back to the Greater Pensacola Chamber because he thought…
Offshore Inland to bring 100 jobs to the Port of Pensacola
WEAR TV 3 broke on its Wednesday evening newscasts that Offshore Inland has reached an agreement with the city of Pensacola to lease a warehouse at the Port of Pensacola and will…
Mathis out as Port director, Miller appointed as replacement
The City of Pensacola has announced that Amy Miller has been appointed as new Director of the Port of Pensacola, after Clyde Mathis resigned on Monday (Clyde Mathis Resignation11202013_0000). Miller is the…
More on City losses at Port of Pensacola
The daily newspaper followed up on my blog post regarding Northwest Florida Cold Storage and reported that the company is no longer in operation. Derek Cosson, the city’s public information officer, said…
NWFL Cold Storage owes $220K, $167K over 120 days
We have received the Accounts Receivable Aging Summary As of 2/15/13 for the Port of Pensacola. The total receivables are $518,513.96—42 percent of that is due from Northwest Florida Cold Storage. NWFL…
Port of Pensacola still battles past due receivables
The Port of Pensacola’s account receivables have dropped over the period of Nov. 30, 2012 to Jan. 15, 2013 —going from $506,939 to $393,107. However, the invoices that are more than 90…
A Little Fuzzy in the Nebulas
Before authorizing the mayor to execute a $2 million Economic Development Transportation Project Fund Agreement between the city of Pensacola and the Florida Department of Transportation Monday, City Council Vice President Jewell…
Port as Offshore-Drilling Pitstop?
The Global 1200 is the latest gargantuan fixture up at Pensacola’s port. It’s a whopper of a vessel, with steel braids of cranes and infrastructure stretching to the clouds. The ship is…
Experts see little hope of Port being moneymaker
Expect the debate over the future of the Port of Pensacola to heat up when the Mayor’s Port Advisory Committee and the Pensacola City Council see the latest report from Dr. Rick…
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to…
CMP: Stop the pettiness and bullying
Pensacola had a head start over the rest of North America 451 years ago. When DeLuna founded Pensacola, there was no New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans or Orlando…just Pensacola. When the…
It’s time to end this nonsense
We have two has-beens–scions of old Pensacola–that are out to stop a project that will revitalize downtown Pensacola and, in the process, are trying to become relevant. Marty Donovan is the classic…
Cutting funds for non-profits
The Pensacola City Council is faced with an estimated $1.8 million deficit in the fiscal year 2010-11 budget. Instead of looking at how it may save dollars by consolidating services with the…
Frozen chicken ban impacts Gulf Coast ports
Russia last week banned chicken imports from the U.S. At issue is the chlorine bath American producers use to disinfect slaughtered poultry. Of the $729.5 million in chicken sent from the U.S….
Race for Containers
The Panama Canal is expanding—a $5.25 billion project– to all allow the largest container ships to cut through to the eastern side of North America and, according to AP, may cut into…
Mack has a plan for Port
In all the hubbub over Blue Angels Week, Santa Claus wanting Ferdinand Plaza and the numerous Sunshine Law investigations, Councilwoman Diane Mack’s proposal for putting the Port of Pensacola up for sale…
City Staff Politics 102
The Pensacola city staff has stopped playing politics with its council and the citizens. Last week, we pointed out on this blog that the council’s own rules and procedures prevented it from…
