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Loud & proud: ILWU Local 10’s Drill Team was invited by the Port to perform their snappy routine on April 28th. ILWU members were a prominent part of the Port’s 150th Anniversary celebrations held during the month of April. Locals 10, 34, 75, and the IBU sponsored the ILWU 1934 and 1948 educational [...]  Piers 19 and 23 in San Francisco China’s Vantone Holdings Co. is in talks to transform San Francisco’s vacant Pier 19 into space for Chinese companies seeking to do business in the United States, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Talks between Vantone and San Francisco to develop Pier 19 are preliminary, [...] A pair of ospreys built their nest at the top of this crane at the end of Pier 80 in San Francisco. Photo: Sarah Rice, Special To The Chronicle The birds were first spotted six weeks ago by Noreen Weeden, conservation manager at the Golden Gate Audubon Society, when she was at the adjacent [...]
ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Willie Adams Mayor Edwin M. Lee has nominated William (Willie) E. Adams, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) International Secretary-Treasurer and current San Francisco Film Commissioner, to the Port Commission. “The San Francisco Port is a vital engine in our City’s economic health, and now with the exciting transformation along our iconic [...]
The Grand Princess will move to San Francisco in May 2013. Princess Cruises plans to base a cruise ship year-round in San Francisco — a first for the line. The California-based cruise operator said the 2,600-passenger Grand Princess would move to the city in May 2013 to sail a mix of voyages to Alaska, Hawaii, [...] No one is saying definitively yet what gave the Port of Tacoma the edge over the Port of Seattle in the contest to win the business of three container shipping lines, but Port of Tacoma officials say it wasn’t just money. Port spokeswoman Tara Mattina said Friday that Tacoma’s port has several advantages over its [...]
Jimmy Herman, former International President of the ILWU San Francisco’s newest cruise ship terminal has been named after a former president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The James R. Herman Cruise Terminal at Pier 27 now carries the name of the man who was president of the ILWU from 1977 to 1991 and [...] A third-party proposal to shut down terminals on December 12 has not been vetted by union’s democratic process SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 22, 2011) — In response to recent third-party announcements that community activists will attempt to shut down various West Coast marine terminals on December 12, 2011, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) [...] The US Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is providing $19.4 million in new grants for improving rail infrastructure, with much of the cash to be spent on freight projects. The grants are going to several US cities and states to replace, relocate and improve segments of primarily freight track, through the Rail Line Relocation and Improvement [...] Wind energy components at Port of San Francisco The Port of San Francisco recently welcomed the M/V Star Hansa, carrying wind turbine components for San Leandro, California-based Halus Power Systems. Halus imported wind tower sections, blades, nacelles, hubs and other parts for three complete wind turbines, which were purchased from a windfarm in Germany. [...] A San Francisco bay bar pilot boards a ship. A California lawmaker’s bill to increase the pay of pilots who navigate massive cargo ships through San Francisco Bay’s intricate shipping channels drew attention Tuesday to the handsome incomes earned by these little-known mariners. A state Senate committee heard debate about a proposal sponsored by [...] Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that Republican budget cuts threaten port investments that would create more jobs. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi used a weekend return to San Francisco to call for more investments in the nation’s ports and other infrastructure as a way to create jobs. “Unless we invest in infrastructure, dredging, etcetera, [...] After struggling unsuccessfully for years to establish one cruise terminal on the waterfront, San Francisco might wind up with two. If The City is chosen to host the America’s Cup regatta in 2013, officials hope to use some of the development dollars to build a new airportlike cruise terminal at Pier 27, at the bottom [...] California enjoyed its best ever October for exports, according to an international trade report released Friday. In October, the Golden State shipped abroad $12.91 billion in goods, which in inflation-adjusted terms is more than any other October, said Jock O’Connell, international trade adviser for Beacon Economics, which releases a monthly report on California’s international trade [...] Click in the image to read the Chronicle article. Every day for 160 years and in all kinds of weather – the calm of autumn, the fog of summer, the storms of winter – stout pilot boats have cruised 11 miles at sea, ready to provide commercial ships with pilots to guide the vessels [...] |
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