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Day: June 21, 2011

Egypt Opposes U.S.’s Democracy Funding

“I am not sure at this stage we still need somebody to tell us what is or is not good for us—or worse, to force it on us,” Fayza Aboul Naga, who has been Egypt’s minister for planning and international...

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Port of Olympia busy with timber exports to Asia

Many Northwest ports are experiencing a boom in log shipments, but nowhere is it more dramatic than in Olympia, where Weyerhaeuser moved one of its exporting operations from Tacoma about two years ago to service its Japan trade....

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PierPass Says ‘Bunching’ Plagues Terminal Gates

The head of PierPass gate operation at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports says the only pressure on capacity marine terminals comes when large numbers of truckers want to pick up or drop off containers at the same time. “We...

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