Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero said he sympathizes with Los Angeles and Long Beachport users seeking less truck congestion and more transparency from the ports’ PierPass program for off-hours truck gates.
“I cannot think of any stakeholder, not one stakeholder, who supports PierPass status quo,” Cordero said. He spoke at a panel discussion sponsored by the New York-New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders & Brokers Association, which Thursday night named him the association’s person of the year.
Cordero credited PierPass with showing night gate operations are feasible, but said truck congestion remains a problem and that the fees keep rising.
