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United States; Florida; Port Canaveral; coastal zone management; Canaveral Port Authority; transportation
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Port Development At Port Canaveral, Florida, Sergio A. Cartaya
Port Development At Port Canaveral, Florida, Sergio A. Cartaya
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The restrictions and goals influencing port development today, differ from those that prompted development in the very recent past. In the 1960s, innovations in the transport of cargo and passengers drastically changed maritime transport. In the 1970s, a new awareness of the environment demanded, and through the decade implemented, new changes in coastal development. Port development today is no longer a transaction between the port authority and the Army Corps of Engineers, new federal agencies, with strict developmental guidelines, and the general public are now involved. The outcome of this new way of doing business has been that the lead-time …