What Could Be Impacted By Dockworkers Strike In South Florida? Lots Of Containers

The members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are stopping work at 36 ports from Texas to Maine, including PortMiami and Port Everglades in South Florida. The union represents 45,000 dockworkers. About 60% of the country’s cargo comes through the three dozen ports impacted by the strike.

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Florida Leads Nation With Half Of Residential Floodplain Development

Construction in flood-prone areas, which includes land near bodies of water and low-lying land, increases the likelihood of more damaging floods in those areas. According to a study conducted by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, South Florida alone accounted for 124,090 residential properties developed on 34,560 acres of floodplain land between 2001 and 2019.

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