US Should Nationalize Ports Policy to Avoid Competition: Seattle Port Commissioner

Senior Editor Alex Newman interviews Seattle Port Commissioner Sam Cho, who laments the absence of enforceable national and international sustainability standards for ports and shipping. Cho points out that, because Seattle and other West Coast ports have imposed the UN-mandated sustainability standards, they are at a competitive disadvantage to other American ports that have not, because such standards add significantly to the cost of every box shipped.