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65,000 jobs in Northeast Florida are related to port activity
$19 billion annually in economic impact
In Jacksonville alone, nearly 23,000 people are employed in port-dependent positions, jobs directly relying on the port. An additional 43,000 positions are related to cargo activity in the Port of Jacksonville; these are jobs within the region's manufacturing, retail, wholesale and distribution industries.
A study conducted in 2009 concludes these positions provide an average annual salary of $43,980, well above the Jacksonville average of $27,215 as cited by the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Cargo activity in Jacksonville generates nearly $19 billion in total economic activity. The benefits are clear to those working in the maritime and related industries: $1.8 billion dollars in wages and salaries to those in jobs dependent on activity at the port and another $1.6 billion in personal income for those in positions related to the activity in the Port of Jacksonville throughout the region and state.
JAXPORT's marine facilities provide significant economic benefits to Northeast Florida through direct employment, sales and tax revenue, and through local firms that engage in international trade and travel.
Photo Credit: JAXPORT, Meredith Fordham Hughes
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes, in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name of this volcano resembles that of a different volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, also known as Gunung Merapi; there is also a third volcano named Marapi in Sumatra. The name "Merapi" means "fire" in the Indonesian language.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. The work is low-paid and very onerous. Workers earn around $5.50-$8.30 (Rp 50,000 - Rp 75,000) per day and once out of the crater, still need to carry their loads of sulfur chunks about three kilometers to the nearby Pultuding valley to get paid.
Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an east/west-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 metres (1,184 ft), a surface of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft).
In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 1, 2010
Protesters marched for International Workers Day on May Day. They marched from Martin Luther King Park in south Minneapolis to the downtown Minneapolis Convention Center where the Minnesota Republican Party was holding their convention. The march was to protest issues such as immigration raids, deportations that divide families and the new Arizona law SB 1070 concerning immigrants.
Various stickers on a city astray. My faves were the "Workers Demand Better!" and that adorable crab sticker on the bottom!
A community health worker, who has received training under the Jhpiego/ Mchip programme, carries out a nutritional cooking class, which is held weekly, at a community members house in Nampula, Mozambique Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Women with new born babies are encourage to attend so they learn about nutrition and the types of food their babies need to be weened onto. (Kate Holt/MCSP and Jhpiego)
Shipyard workers in Elsinore, Denmark. The sculptures are located at Kulturværftet/The Culture Yard in Elsinore/Helsingør. The Culture Yard is the new community center in Elsinore. It is an exiting building containing a ship yard museum, library, concert hall and changing exhibitions. With respect for the old buildings the old ship yard is transformed into a modern functional culture, meeting and conference center.
The 25-ton sculpture.“The Workers,” which depicts two steelworkers and a ladle, was made of reclaimed steel from the very furnaces that once sat on this site in Pittsburgh's South Side.
Click here for my Pittsburgh Pa. 2012 collection.
That is Lambertsson's slogan.
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Fact. The crane will be 64 meters high. It is buried six meters under ground. The counterweight weighs 17 tonnes. When the workers had come this far today the guy in the beard started shouting. It is the wrong number, we have the wrong part up here. I hope it worked out for them. The crane will be used during the renovation of the old city hall building in Handen that will be turned into an apartment building.
Photocopy of a photograph showing Corbin Lock Company employees in front of the plant in Belleville, Ontario.
People who were identified in the photo: No. 6: Harold Reid, No. 7: Willy White (killed at 207G Engineering), No. 10: Bill Frawley, No. 27: James Graham (Jumbo), No. 31: Ray Hay, No. 40: Springer.
The first tunnel breakthrough has been achieved on a $220 million project to replace a century-old sewer pipeline under Melbourne’s inner suburbs.
Tunnel boring machine "Lucy Loo" breaks through at the Swallow Street shaft site on Monday 28 June 2010.
All these photos started out as b&w film that I processed at home. I messed up the negatives and they are too dark. For fun I put them on the light table on my microscope and took cell phone photos through the microscope's eyepiece. Then I edited them using mostly Snapseed.
Sea Worker, jack-up barge.
Ship Type: Platform
Year Built: 2008
Length x Breadth: 55 m X 32 m
Gross Tonnage: 3776, DeadWeight: 1814 t
Speed recorded (Max / Average): 7.2 / 6.5 knots
Flag: Denmark [DK]
Call Sign: OYRN2
IMO: 8769705, MMSI: 219015441
SEA WORKER is a modern jack-up barge specially equipped to operate in the off shore wind sector although also capable of operating in the oil and gas sector.
Equipped with a flexible Favco PC300 HD Offshore crane, SEA WORKER can install a wide range of equipment such as monopiles, transition pieces and the latest generation of offshore wind turbines. SEA WORKER’s 73-metre long legs enable this vessel to work at depths of up 40 metres. SEA WORKER is fitted with a state-of-the-art LPS system (Leg Penetration System) and has air cooled jacking and auxiliary engines to be able to operate on sites that dry out at low tide.
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.
Migrant workers on their way back to their hostel in a pick-up truck, after their sunday outing, Syed Alwi Road, Singapore
An Indian road worker in Trashigang, Bhutan. Our guide told us that the Bhutanese all want to be office workers and will not work on the roads so the Indians are hired to do this never ending task. We were told they are paid approximately $100 per month. The average wage in Bhutan is $300 a month. Our guide's daughter is a teacher and she earns $650 a month.