Why Should Delaware Care?The Port of Wilmington is the owned by the taxpayers of Delaware, and contracted for operations to private companies. Questions have been raised this year over the state’s oversight of those contractors, and a new audit details failures by the state agency in its role.
Standing outside Legislative Hall on Thursday, Delaware State Auditor Lydia York braced against a chilly wind and even chillier reception from state officials after she presented findings from her office’s audit of the Port of Wilmington.
Published that morning, the audit report stated that Delaware’s port oversight board had failed during a recent four-year period to sufficiently supervise and inspect operations at the Port of Wilmington, which York described as the state’s largest public asset…