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The Port of Hueneme on Monday posted its strongest cargo numbers since the start of the recession, with healthy gains made in processing its most lucrative cargo, automobiles.
Total cargo tonnage for the fiscal year ending June 30 rose 8.2 percent to 1.32 million metric tons. The last time cargo tonnage was higher was 2007.
With the cargo numbers in hand, port officials told the commission they foresee strong revenue returns in September, when the port’s audit is expected to be done.
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The Journal of Commerce reported Tuesday:
Pacific Maritime Association head also sees jurisdictional battle as continuing
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet was not speaking in hyperbole Monday when he said the jurisdictional dispute in Portland between the ILWU and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is far from over despite a labor board ruling in favor of the electrical workers.
Sundet lashed out at the National Labor Relations Board for its decision Monday that the IBEW, not the ILWU, has jurisdiction over work on refrigerated containers at the Port of Portland. Sundet implied that the NLRB ruling is worthless because it will be superseded by the coast-wide contract between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association.
Sundet said Portland’s terminal operator, ICTSI, and the carriers that call at Terminal 6, including Hanjin Shipping Co. and Hapag-Lloyd, are members of the coast-wide bargaining agreement that covers all waterfront employers on the West Coast.
PMA President Jim McKenna agreed with Sundet that the jurisdictional dispute in Portland is not over. “There will still be more...
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