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Last September, two Washington senators and a handful of West Coast representatives asked the commissioners to analyze the impact of shippers stopping in Canada and then sending their goods by rail to the United States. Their primary concern involved a Harbor Maintenance Tax, which the government charges shippers to reimburse dredging costs. The report placed [...]  From World Cargo News:
‘We strongly encourage Congress to stop throwing money at ineffective programs,’ said ILWU Legislative Director Lindsay McLaughlin. ‘A wiser approach to port security would be to invest these federal dollars into Customs, the Coast Guard and other federal agencies to implement container security and intelligence programs rather than spending billions [...] Any new federal surface transportation bill that emerges from the committee of lawmakers conferencing on the measure should include provisions establishing a national policy for freight movement, a group of organizations invested in the shipping and retail industries said Thursday. The Freight Stakeholders Coalition, which was form to press lawmakers to consider freight issues in [...] At a hearing of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, AAPA Chairman of the Board Jerry Bridges, who also serves as executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, testified on the economic importance of seaports. Witnesses included Peter Peyton, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Marine [...] Port of Seattle environmental programs take top honors among nation’s ports Seattle's Port Commission President Bill Bryant has earned the support of labor and clean air advocates and said, "The Port of Seattle is committed to protecting our environment while generating thousands of family-wage jobs." The American Association of Port Authorities named two [...] APM Terminals built a private terminal across the river from the Port of Portsmouth in 2007 and then leased the new terminal to the port for the next 20 years. Despite high expectations, the port will lose $11 million in the first two years of the lease. For the first two years of a [...] Port of Chiapas in Southern Mexico handled 3,590 TEUs in 2010. The new shipping route between El Salvador’s Acajutla port and Chiapas port in Mexico will dramatically increase trade between the south of Mexico and Central America, the American Association of Port Authorities’ (AAPA) director for Latin America, Rafael Diaz-Balart, told BNamericas. An agreement [...] The American Association of Port Authorities issued a news release lauding proposed changes to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL). Excerpts below, or read the entire news release at AAPA. In meetings this year with Chairman Mica, AAPA President and CEO Kurt Nagle stressed the need [...] |
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