Article: speakers say: go slow on port privatization.(Local)

By Robert McCabe

The Virginian-Pilot

NORFOLK

As the first in a series of speakers Wednesday before a panel studying the possible privatization of the state's port operations, Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim came close to setting the tone for the next 21/2 hours.

"For more than 300 years, international trade has defined who we are as a people, as a city and as a region," Fraim said, adding that the port "has been developed and nurtured by generations of Virginians."

"We owe it to those generations and to future generations of Virginians to be good stewards of the port and, in whatever we do, to keep the long-range interests of the ...

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