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Month: April 2010

From the Mall to the Docks, Signs of Rebound

Portland, OR: The docks are humming again at this sprawling Pacific port, with clouds of golden dust billowing off the piles of grain spilling into the bellies of giant tankers. “Things are looking up,” said Dan Broadie, a...

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Battle looms over tunnel to finish LA-area freeway

State Route 710, a freeway heavily used by commuters and trucks hauling goods from the nation’s busiest port complex, runs 23 miles from Long Beach to an abrupt end just east of Los Angeles. Activists in tiny South...

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Panama Canal signs first East Coast agreement

Panama Canal and Alabama port executives have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly help foster commercial activity between the two entities … and help boost trade along the increasingly important...

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Overcapacity to Last Years, says OOCL Chief

OOIL Group Chairman CC Tung said Tuesday that it could take three to four years before the container industry works its way out of the glut of vessel capacity that hangs over the market. “We are pleased to see that after a very...

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