TecPlata, the Buenos Aires province-based unit of International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI), is reducing its workforce by 90%, according to local news outline La Política Online. Located at the La Plata port in the...
Read MoreExcerpts from American Shipper: Craig Merrilees, a spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, told American Shipper 22 longshoremen at the Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) were dismissed by SSA...
Read MoreFrom the Journal of Commerce: By all accounts, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach met the challenge of efficiently handling the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin when the 18,000-TEU ship, the largest ever to serve a U.S. port, came...
Read MoreFirst, electrified mats. Then beach balls. And who can forget that fake orca. Every effort to keep sea lions from overtaking the docks at the Port of Astoria has failed. Inflatable dancers? Why not. They went up Thursday and...
Read MoreBusiness is booming at West Coast ports, helped by the strong U.S. dollar. Cargo volume at the Port of Long Beach surged nearly 36% last month, compared with the activity seen in February 2015. ‘Certainly the high dollar...
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