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The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay could be losing their Executive Director to the Port of Bellingham, Washington, as Jeff Bishop has shown up as a finalist for their open spot. Bishop has been heading up the Port of Coos Bay since January of 2005. Prior to that he had served as Manager of Industrial [...] Lines and TOTE handle about 75 percent of the waterborne cargo between Tacoma to Alaska. Thanks to the Jones Act, they use vessels built in the U.S. and manned by Americans — but that could change if McCain succeeds in repealing the Jones Act. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has introduced legislation that would repeal [...] China Shipping Container Lines Co., the nation’s second-biggest cargo-box carrier, plans to impose an “emergency equipment surcharge” of $400 per forty-foot box on transpacific shipments next month because of a global shortage of containers. AP Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest container line, has forecast an “unprecedented” shortage of cargo boxes because of a surge in shipping [...] Port of Los Angeles officials’ concerns about where to put dredged sediment if they approve a new $50 million shipyard may have just become a non-issue, thanks to a request from the Port of Long Beach for dredged material it can use to create land for the Long Beach Middle Harbor Project. The Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday, June 28 approved a $716 million budget for the Port of Long Beach that continues to invest aggressively on environmental and capital improvement projects while keeping operating costs in check. The fiscal year 2011 budget represents a 19 percent reduction from the previous year. It includes $474 million for development projects [...] In the past, Port of Tacoma officials’ energy was targeted toward high-dollar container development. … Now, with orders from the Port of Tacoma Commission to right its financial ship, port officials are looking back to less troubled times and less glamorous business. Last fall, the port leased about 16 acres of the 26-acre log export facility [...] The contract covering about 950 office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach expires at midnight Wednesday, and it does not appear that an agreement will be reached by the deadline. “I’m not optimistic at all about reaching an agreement by June 30,” said John Fageaux, president of the Office Clerical Unit [...] With the newly deepened 43-foot Columbia River channel, local ports and shippers are gearing up to take full advantage of the opportunity to enhance the Northwest’s important role as an international trade gateway. Dave Hunt, executive director of the Columbia River Channel Coalition At the Port of Longview, new tenant EGT Development LLC is currently constructing [...] CMA CMA is counting on increased American exports to South China and Taiwan. CMA CGM has announced the July 10 return of the Yang Tse service linking South, Central and North China to the West Coast of the United States. Operated in partnership with Maersk Line and MSC, this service will deploy six vessels of 6,500 [...] Total container stats were up 25.1 percent at the Port of Long Beach in May, were up 19.9 percent at the Port of Los Angeles, up 19.3 percent at the Port of Oakland, and up a whopping 57.4 percent at the Port of Seattle. May was the best month this year for all the West [...] Hanjin Shipping has received its first 10,000TEU class containership. The “Hanjin Korea” is the first of the series of five 10,000TEU class ships ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries and is equipped with a fuel-efficient and eco-friendly engine that can reduce both fuel consumption and CO2 emission. Eun Young Choi, Chairwoman of Hanjin Shipping, commented, “With this [...] Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has signed two new deals with West Coast terminal operators to improve cargo shipments through Canada’s Western ports. One agreement is with TSI Terminal Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Global Container Terminals, which says it handles more than 70 per cent of the containers that move through the Vancouver gateway. [...] Callao is one of many Latin American ports that's undergoing privatization schemes that undermine longshore workers' jobs. Switzerland’s Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a service agreement with Peruvian national ports operator Enapu to allow cheaper tariffs at Callao (”ki-YOW”) port’s Muelle Norte terminal. Enapu’s operations at Muelle Norte will face competition from the nearby Muelle [...] Gregoire's plan includes increasing agricultural exports. This photo of corn being loaded in Seattle for export to Japan was contributed by ILWU Local 98 member Daryl Olson. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire laid out plans Tuesday to boost trade as part of Pres. Obama’s effort to double American exports in five years. It was symbolic that Gregoire [...] “Rates have increased, but more importantly, we have taken out costs by, among other things, reducing fuel consumption through slow steaming and better planning,” CEO Nils Smedegaard Andersen said in Maersk Post. “We are more competitive today than before the crisis,” Andersen said, adding that cost cutting would continue across the group as competitors are doing [...] |
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