There is a chance that you have been here before. If so, you have noticed that the most recent post, save this one, was posted by me in 2020. That March was when I retired, for all practical purposes. (For the record, my long-planned March retirement arrived as the nasty coronavirus was taking hold and then labeled a pandemic. It abruptly turned everyone’s work routine upside down. As is often the case, my good timing was a matter of luck. I was spared having to navigate in a changed Washington environment where government offices were closed, congressional staff worked from home, information sharing was more difficult, and meetings were nonexistent.)

Earlier I said “for all practical purposes” because, it turned out, I was asked to stay on as an advisor for one of my longtime clients. And I have.

One of the several ways I retired was to bring to an end two media I used to communicate matters of interest to folks in the seaport sector: my MORNING MATTERS newsletter and this MTS MATTERS blog. The former was news oriented while the latter offered opinion. For reasons I may disregard in years to come, I keep the MORNING MATTERS digital files in a folder somewhere behind the keyboard and I continue to maintain the domain for MTS MATTERS. Which means the blog can still be viewed. As you no doubt have realized.

So, consider this the MTS MATTERS archive. It’s not necessarily still deserving of attention — assuming it once was — in these years since the ideas for posts first occurred to me. Regardless, here they are at least for the time being.

And should you ever want to put the mtsmatters.com domain to better use, just let me know.