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Day: September 5, 2012

DeFazio has no objections to Coos Bay coal port

Rep. Peter DeFazio says he has few qualms about shipping coal to Asia through the Port of Coos Bay. The Springfield Democrat tells The World newspaper that trying to block plans to ship coal to Asia won’t stop countries...

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Cargill profit falls 82%

Cargill Inc. recently reported an 82% slide in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, citing tough trading conditions in beef and soybean processing and an economic and political environment that the agribusiness group has said distorts...

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APM Terminals highlights future challenges

APM Terminals’ executives have recently isolated some of the main challenges faced by international terminal operators. Vice president and chief financial officer Christian Moller Laursen has described the advent of a “New era...

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Labor Issues Heating Up in the West, Too

It’s been anything but quiet on the western front. The past year has seen three heated disputes in the Pacific Northwest in which the ILWU is fighting to preserve what the union believes is its jurisdiction. In Southern...

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