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Port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has bagged a new contract to develop and run a major container terminal in Nigeria’s Lagos Free Trade Zone that is expected to be the largest terminal in sub-Saharan Africa once operational in 2016.
ICTSI is expected to invest over $225 million in this project, thus raising its stake in Africa. The Philippine company currently has operations in Madagascar, making Nigeria its second market in the region.
ICTSI is involved in the operations and development of 24 marine terminals and port projects in 17 countries.
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Alaska Marine Highway Terminal in Prince RupertThe State of Alaska is planning to rebuild its Marine Highway ferry terminal in Prince Rupert.
The terminal was originally built in 1963 and is the only Canadian stop on the state’s extensive coastal ferry system. With the original agreement soon to come to an end, the State of Alaska is currently in negotiations with CN Rail and the Prince Rupert Port Authority for another 50-year lease that is expected to be approved in September.
While the terminal building on the Prince Rupert waterfront was opened in 1993, the old dock has been facing the elements for half a century and is deteriorating, and once a new lease is put in place, it will be replaced.
From The Northern View
Excerpts from the Associated Press:
The National Labor Relations Board has awarded a pair of disputed jobs at the Port of Portland to union electricians, setting the table for renewed tension at the North Portland container terminal.
In a ruling released Monday afternoon, the NLRB rejected arguments from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that its workers should perform the task of plugging and unplugging refrigerated cargo containers known as reefers.
“We note that the factor of employer preference, although not itself determinative, is entitled to substantial weight,” the NLRB ruling states.
Leal Sundet, an ILWU coast committeeman, said in a statement late Monday the decision was not a surprise because the process is “far from fair.”
“No matter how much public money the Port throws at ICTSI and the carriers, the ILWU/PMA labor agreement that governs all West Coast employers clearly says that Hanjin and Hapag-Lloyd must assign this work to ILWU-represented longshoremen,” said Sundet, who was referring to $4.7 million the Port of Portland recently agreed to pay ICTSI to help defray losses caused by the labor strife.
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One employee is hospitalized after an explosion Sunday afternoon at the Madison Parish Port.
The Bunge Grain Elevator is temporarily closed after an explosion at the facility around 4 p.m. on Sunday. Bunge is unsure of when their elevator at Madison Parish Port will be operational again, but their efforts are focused on the injured employee who was hospitalized.
The cause of the fire is still unknown and under investigation.
From KNOE 8
An explosion late Sunday afternoon at Bunge’s grain elevator operation in the Madison Parish Port, Louisiana, injured one employee and has temporarily shut down the company’s facility there.
Neil Martin of Terral River Service, which also has operations in the port, suspected the explosion was generated from grain dust.
“It’s very combustible,” Martin said. “It could have happened in the grain dust collector and shot back through the vent system, but that’s just speculation.”
From the News Star
From the Alliance for Global Justice:
The Solidarity Center office in Bogotá has received an unusually large two-year grant of $3 million for its operations in the Andean Region.
The scope and dimensions of the grant are not fully known, nor the exact programs to which it will be applied.
However, given the history of the Bogotá office and the Solidarity Center’s Andean representatives, observers expect the grant to have major implications for the countries of Colombia and Venezuela, where the office’s work is usually concentrated.
The grant comes from USAID (the United States Agency for International Development). The office receives notice of this funding at the same time that three key developments are underway–in Venezuela, the coming October elections, and in Colombia, the implementation of the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, coinciding with a massive popular mobilization to demand a political solution to the armed and social conflict. Little information is available concerning the details of the grant.
Because of the documented history of the AFL-CIO intervention in Venezuela through its Solidarity Center, activists must analyze...
Source: NYTimes
Source: Huffington Post
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