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Late last week, shipping giants NYK Line and Evergreen announced they would stop providing chassis for cargo container units in the U.S. – effectively requiring truck owners to rent or own their own chassis. The announcements came in the weeks after similar news from shipping giants CMA CGM and OOCL. On Dec. 17, 2009, FMCSA began [...] The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners elected three new officers at the July 6, 2010 board meeting. The Port Board elected Commissioner James W. Head to serve as president of the board. Commissioner Pamela Calloway was elected to serve as 1st vice president and Commissioner Gilda Gonzales was elected 2nd vice president. Read more about the [...] CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March of next year.The carrier said Thursday it expects the new chassis supply management policy will generate greater operational efficiency and [...] 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 [...] Total container stats were up 25.1 percent at the Port of Long Beach in May, were up 19.9 percent at the Port of Los Angeles, up 19.3 percent at the Port of Oakland, and up a whopping 57.4 percent at the Port of Seattle. May was the best month this year for all the West [...] Oakland Police watch over protesters at berth 52 of the Port of Oakland on Sunday. Click on the image to read the article in the Mercury News. Hundreds of peace activists prevented the unloading of an Israeli ship at the Port of Oakland Sunday by forming a picket line that was considered a [...] The economic collapse reduced imports into the Port of Oakland by 18 percent from April 2008 to April 2009, figures show. Exports fell by 4 percent during the same period. But worldwide trade is picking up again, meaning there are more boats streaming through the Bay every day, Port of Oakland figures show. Imports rose [...] Evergreen Line and China Shipping Container Lines are teaming up to start a trans-Pacific service linking Los Angeles and Oakland with central and northern China. … The new service, which is to be called the China/South US West Coast Service 2 (CPS2), in response to the booming Asia – U.S. trade, which has been experiencing [...] Port of Portland commissioners brushed aside an accusation of unfairness Wednesday and unanimously approved a deal with Philippine company International Container Terminal Services Inc., that aims to double Portland’s shipping-container volume within five years. Representatives of Ports America, a company that currently runs the terminal on a more limited management contract, blasted the lack of a [...] San Diego's Board of Port Commissioners is expected to see a draft plan for a Clean Trucks Program at its June meeting. The Port of San Diego is working on its own Clean Truck Program to cut emissions and add enforcement teeth to the two-cargo terminal port. The proposal looks to be less restrictive than [...] To strike a significant deal for its future, the Port of Oakland made a significant break with its past. The port agreed in March 2009 to turn over operation of some of its terminals to a private investor in exchange for $686 million over the life of a 50-year deal. The port got a $60 [...] Maersk says that 25% of the cargo booked for export fails to show up. Maersk Line will start imposing a $10 fee for “no-shows” on every container that shippers book for export on one of its trans-Pacific services that does not show up at the ports of Los Angeles and Oakland as of May 1. [...]
A grain transloader at the Port of Los Angeles. Click on the image to read the full article in the Los Angeles Times. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, long known as America’s gateway for imported goods, are trying to generate more export business as the international trade sector struggles to regain [...] KTVU has learned the Port of Oakland has been taking controversial actions to straighten out its finances. After multimillion dollar losses, the once prosperous port laid off 86 employees and found itself in debt for almost $1.5 billion while facing increasingly significant competition from other Pacific coast facilities. Port officials have made one controversial deal that [...] Three Evergreen cranes clear the Bay Bridge on Tuesday, March 16. Click on the photo to read the Oakland Tribune article. Three giant cranes from China sailed under the Bay Bridge on Tuesday morning on their way to the Port of Oakland, barely clearing the bottom of the span. The cranes, bought by international shipper [...] |
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