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A.P. Moller-Maersk terminal operating unit wins court battle over $1 billion Moin Container Terminal
APM Terminals said construction of a container terminal in Costa Rica will start on schedule in 2013 after a court rejected a bid by unions to block the $1 billion project.
The Atlantic Port Authority union, representing dockworkers, and the National Banana Workers union, claimed APM Terminals, the port arm of Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk, was awarded a 33-year concession for the Moin Container Terminal without the necessary economic, environmental and technical studies.
From the Journal of Commerce
CHS grain elevator exposion at Tracy MN
The explosion happened in one of the legs of the elevator, [CHS General Manager Todd Reif] said. A leg is a structure that lifts grain to the top of the elevator.
The August 5 blast injured two people – a CHS employee and an independent truck driver. The victims both suffered burns and were brought from Sanford Hospital in Tracy to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis for evaluation and treatment. The non-CHS employee suffered more extensive injuries.
There is maintenance work going on at the elevator with a new conveyor being installed, but Reif wouldn’t speculate whether that had anything to do with the cause of the explosion. He said nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary prior to Monday afternoon’s incident.
From the Marshall Independent
From today’s Journal of Commerce:
Negotiations for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports broke down suddenly Wednesday, ILA spokesman James McNamara said.
McNamara said ILA President Harold Daggett broke off talks after USMX presented a “take-it-or-leave-it” proposal and said management would not discuss continuing negotiations unless the ILA agreed not to require employers to “pay for inefficiencies.”
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Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC) inquiry over whether Canada had unfairly attracted cargo from US ports, because it imposed no equivalent taxes, found the Canadians blameless while at the same time, saying their port operators still posed a threat to US cargo.
“The commission study has found no legal or regulatory impediment to the use of ocean carriers of Canadian or Mexican ports for US cargo shipments,” said FMC chairman Richard Lidinsky.
“We identified a situation in the Pacific Northwest, even reaching southward into California, whereby cargo movement through certain parts of our border are putting these ports at a strong competitive disadvantage,” said Mr Lidinsky.
From the Economic Times
'When the military needs to move cargo, we do whatever we have to do, and do it well,' ILA Local 1422 President Ken Riley said. 'It’s beyond me why, after all these years, the military is moving from best value to lowest bid. Our troops deserve the best.'
The International Longshoremen’s Association said its protest of a stevedore’s use of non-ILA labor would continue this week in Charleston, S.C., where a military pre-positioning ship is being loaded with ammunition.
The ILA is protesting the hiring of International Union of Operating Engineers labor from Jacksonville, Fla., to load ammunition onto the USNS Lewis & Clark for the Marines.
Ken Riley, president of ILA Local 1422 in Charleston and of the South Carolina AFL-CIO, said the ILA has provided the military for years with a reliable work force that can meet emergency needs.
“When the military needs to move cargo, we do whatever we have to do, and do it well,” he said. “It’s beyond me why, after all these years, the military is moving from best value to lowest bid. Our troops deserve the best.”
More at the Journal of Commerce
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, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the talks are private. Pier 19, a 206,000-square-foot warehouse on the Embarcadero across from Levi’s Plaza, could be used for offices, meeting rooms, galleries or a hospitality center for Chinese businesspeople after renovations, one of the people said.
Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle
Colombian and U.S. soldiers set up communications in a warehouse, August 7 at Fort Sam Houston in preparation for Fuerzas Aliadas Panamax. Commonly known as PANAMAX, the U. S. Southern Command sponsored exercise brings U. S. Army South and 17 other partner nation military air and land sea forces together in a joint and combined operation focused on defending the Panama Canal from attacks by 'violent extremist organizations.' (Photo by Sgt Tamika Exom)
Commonly known as PANAMAX, the exercise brings together sea, air and land forces in a joint and combined operation focused on defending the Panama Canal from attacks by a violent extremist organization as well as responding to natural disasters and pandemic outbreaks in various locations.
This year, in addition to the United States, Brazil and Colombia, hundreds of participants from Argentina, Belize, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay and Peru will take part in the overall exercise.
“The multinational staff shows the full interoperability of our forces and partner nations,” said Maj. Gen. Simeon G. Trombitas, U.S. Army South...
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