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The Eastside rail corridor The plaintiffs say port officials overstepped their authority by purchasing the 42-mile Eastside rail corridor and misused port tax money to buy it from BNSF Railway Company. In a response to the lawsuit filed in court, the Port’s lawyers said the acquisition was “fully within the Port of Seattle authority.” The Port’s lawyers [...] A new study of the Port of Vancouver’s signature project — a planned 27-mile expansion of rail tracks to speed cargo and handle more of it — says the port will have to borrow as much as $75 million to cover a shortfall and should adopt plans to avoid cost overruns. The West Vancouver Freight Access [...] South America’s answer to the Panama Canal — an ambitious, 2,600-mile railroad and highway link connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via Chile, Brazil and Bolivia — may open as early as November, officials said. Already the booming economies of South America have prompted the cash-strapped European Union to soften its resistance to closer trade links [...] BHP Billiton Ltd. on Wednesday went hostile in its bid for Canadian fertilizer company Potash Corp. The move comes one week after the Port of Vancouver announced BHP had selected the port for a new potash export facility. BHP decided to take its $40 billion offer for Potash Corp. directly to shareholders after being rebuffed [...] Union Pacific officials recently reconfirmed that an earlier statement on a possible rail line between Mexico’s Punta Colonet and the U.S. continues to hold true: “We had a lot of pushback at the local level, at the state level and at the congressional level,” a Union Pacific spokesperson said. “We had a lot of ‘not in [...] In this opinion piece that was recently published in the Seattle Times, Seattle Port Commissioner John Creighton says the following: John Creighton Puget Sound public ports have been cooperating more and more over the past several years on issues varying from environmental stewardship to port security. We should be looking at two additional areas of cooperation: [...] The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay is hiring North Bend attorney David R. Koch to serve as its chief operating officer. Koch has practiced as an associate attorney since 2006 with North Bend-based Stebbins & Coffey, Attorneys at Law, where he handles legal issues for the port and several other public entities. The port increasingly [...] The final acquisition of an important rail segment has given the International Port of Coos Bay a chance at economic stability. Union Pacific Railroad and the port are nearing a deal for a 22-mile stretch of railroad that runs from the north spit of lower Coos Bay to Coquille. The port also hopes a strong rail [...] The Port of Grays Harbor is $4 million closer to their goal of raising more than $15 million to construct additional rail storage tracks in the marine terminal complex. With exports more than double 2009 same period volumes, the Port of Grays Harbor, on Washington’s Pacific Coast, is working diligently to construct the rail system [...] This Port of Grays Harbor photo shows longshore workers driving imported autos off a ship. The port has also gained export business, including exporting Jeeps to China that formerly passed through East Coast ports. The Port of Grays Harbor, WA, says its first-half export activity has more than doubled over the same period last year. [...] 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 [...] The Montreal Port Authority said its grain terminal can receive and ship cargo after it obtained a court injunction to allow access to the port, according to a statement issued today. The MPA, which operates its own grain terminal, also said rail traffic has resumed. The Maritime Employers Association this week imposed a lockout on about 850 [...] Officials at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, Wash., announced today they have completed the Terminal 5 Unit Train Improvement project. The completed project adds 35,000 feet of new rail capacity to the port’s recently developed terminal, Terminal 5. It will help accommodate rail service for a variety of cargoes and help decrease congestion on the [...] John Wolfe faces the tasks of leading the port in difficult times and of repairing its reputation after two troubled and expensive expansions failed to live up to their promise. [In response to questions, Wolfe made the following comments:] We’ve already made a significant investment in infrastructure that’s underutilized, so we can accommodate growth [...] Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has signed two new deals with West Coast terminal operators to improve cargo shipments through Canada’s Western ports. One agreement is with TSI Terminal Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Global Container Terminals, which says it handles more than 70 per cent of the containers that move through the Vancouver gateway. [...] |
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