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The new weekly Matson service to Long Beach will begin in mid-August and be in full deployment by early October. Matson Navigation Company announced Thursday that it is expanding its service between China and the Port of Long Beach by adding a second string of vessels. The new vessels will provide service from the ports of [...] After a five-year lull, construction restarted this week on the final phase of the Main Channel deepening project at the Port of Los Angeles, which will eventually allow larger cargo vessels to access harbor terminals, officials announced Friday. “The Main Channel deepening project is a lifeline to maintaining our competitive edge during the critical years ahead [...] Port of Long Beach The long-planned $1 billion Middle Harbor Project redevelopment project will create a facility capable of handling twice as much cargo (up to 3.3 million TEUs a year) while cutting air pollution in half from current levels. This will be possible because ships will use shore power, and the facility will feature [...] Office clerical workers and waterfront employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach said they would resume contract negotiations Wednesday. The talks between the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 were suspended for two days because Stephen Berry, the attorney representing 14 shipping lines and marine terminals, had to [...] Clerical workers who struck the nation’s busiest port complex for 11 days returned to work Monday after arbitrators’ rulings said their union was negotiating in bad faith with shipping companies. The rulings “made it impossible” for the more than 10,000 longshoremen at the ports to respect the picket lines, ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees said. Managers handled [...] Container volume moving through West Coast ports increased 14 percent in the first five months of the year. Growth was relatively balanced between imports and exports and across the regional gateways. Statistics published on the Web site of the Pacific Maritime Association also showed that, except for a slight dip in February, container volume increased steadily [...] The strike by Port of Los Angeles clerical workers has prompted concern among experts that the ripple effects could affect the Inland Empire, where many businesses are dependent on the flow of goods from the L.A. and Long Beach ports. Target Logistics, Kohl’s Logistics, Big 5 Distribution, Home Depot Logistics, Kmart Distribution, among many others, are [...] The Port of Tacoma was added to Inbound Logistics Magazine’s “Green 50 Supply Chain Partners,” an annual list of supply chain partners committed to sustainability. Tacoma is one of five American ports and the only one in the Pacific Northwest to be honored. Other “Green 50” ports include the Port of Long Beach and the Port [...] Nick Sramek was elected to a second consecutive term as Harbor Commission president at the Port of Long Beach last week. … Sramek, a former city planning commissioner, is a senior project leader at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo. He was appointed to the Harbor Commission in 2007, and was chosen as president in [...] A full job action could shut down loading and unloading operations at the twin ports, which handled nearly $316 billion worth of cargo last year. But an arbitrator ruled that the clerical unit had bargained in bad faith and ordered longshoremen back to work by 8 a.m., Berry said. ILWU Coast Longshore Division spokesperson Jennifer Sargent [...] The local Office Clerical Unit of the International Longshore Warehouse Union struck four terminals after its labor contracts with 14 shippers and terminal operators expired. Longshoremen, who are members of another ILWU unit, historically have honored picket lines and refused to cross picket lines at two terminals overnight. … But an arbitrator ruled that the clerical [...] Clerical workers at several terminals at the country’s busiest port complex went on strike after their contract expired early Thursday without a new labor agreement, a union spokesman said. “We are now on strike,” said John Fageaux Jr., president of Local 63 of the 900 member Office Clerical Unit of the International Longshore Warehouse Union. “We [...] Port of Los Angeles officials’ concerns about where to put dredged sediment if they approve a new $50 million shipyard may have just become a non-issue, thanks to a request from the Port of Long Beach for dredged material it can use to create land for the Long Beach Middle Harbor Project. The Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday, June 28 approved a $716 million budget for the Port of Long Beach that continues to invest aggressively on environmental and capital improvement projects while keeping operating costs in check. The fiscal year 2011 budget represents a 19 percent reduction from the previous year. It includes $474 million for development projects [...] The contract covering about 950 office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach expires at midnight Wednesday, and it does not appear that an agreement will be reached by the deadline. “I’m not optimistic at all about reaching an agreement by June 30,” said John Fageaux, president of the Office Clerical Unit [...] |
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