Tag: Chris Waterson
Finance Committee recommends further amendments to ProvPort tax agreement
PROVIDENCE – After initial accusations that the prior Providence City Council rushed to pass a controversial tax agreement with the city’s main port operator,...
Proposed ProvPort tax, lease agreement extensions advance despite public protest
PROVIDENCE – Controversial extensions to the tax and lease agreements with the operators of Providence's industrial port received preliminary approval from a city panel...
SHADES OF GREEN: Can Providence’s working waterfront be both livable and...
Owning a home near the water isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. At least not for Linda Perri, who lives a mile west...
POWERING UP: Offshore wind sector gains momentum despite pandemic
Stark white walls, blank computer screens and empty desk chairs weren’t what the executives at Denmark-based wind-energy firm Orsted had in mind when they...
Many R.I. businesses partner overseas, but state’s trade-zone designation has yet...
Cargo ships carrying components for Block Island Wind Farm’s enormous wind turbines arrived regularly at Providence’s port in 2015 and 2016, when the wind...
Logistec enters cargo-handling agreement with Waterson Terminal Services
PROVIDENCE – Cargo-handling services company Logistec Stevedoring Inc. has entered into an agreement with Waterson Terminal Services LLC, operator and manager of ProvPort, to...
Adaptability yields growth
Waterson Terminal Services LLC formed less than a decade ago, a new company that combined the business interests of two previous founders and worked...
R.I. bids to become a statewide foreign trade zone. Who will...
Rhode Island, which sometimes is at a disadvantage trying to lure or expand business because of its small size, now hopes to use that...