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Autos at the Port of Grays Harbor
As the Port of Grays Harbor preps to ship their 100,000 auto next week, Lakeside Industries is prepping to pave about 12 acres of parking lot to hold that many at once for the port “We think with this added asphalt, that will probably give us capacity of up to 100,000 cars.” Executive Director Gary Nelson tells us the Port will welcome Pasha and Chrysler executives next week to celebrate the milestone.
When the Pasha Group began shipping Chryslers through Grays Harbor in February of 2010, the two companies said they projected as many as 25,000 vehicles passing through the port, as part of a three-year pact. Nelson said 2 years later Pasha is reinvesting in the port, with plans to add an automated car wash that could attract more auto export business.
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Excerpts from Friday’s Journal of Commerce:
As member of waterfront employers group, ICTSI should have told PMA of IBEW contract, McKenna says
Jim McKenna, president of the West Coast waterfront employers group known as the Pacific Maritime Association, said the lawsuit involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Port of Portland “is not a straight line” that will lead to a simple resolution by a single court.
McKenna said that when ICTSI was named terminal operator in Portland more than a year ago, it joined the PMA. McKenna charged that as a PMA member, ICTSI was required to inform the employers’ organization of any contracts it had with non-ILWU workers.
This arrangement seems to imperil PMA member shipping lines that call at Terminal 6 and must use IBEW labor to handle the refrigerated containers.
The PMA and the ILWU, meanwhile, believe their contract, rather than the NLRB or the federal courts, has the final say over labor relations at West Coast ports.
More at the Journal of Commerce
Eliminating Davis Bacon? Implementing Right-to-work-for-less? Bashing “Union CEO Bosses” and “Old-school liberals”? It’s all in there and more. Click on the image above or on this link to see what Mitt Romney thinks of workers’ unions.
Union longshore workers from many Atlantic Coast District Ports are joining forces outside the United States Marine Barracks in Washington, DC to protest the loss of handling military cargo at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds more members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are also picketing simultaneously at the Port of Charleston.
Both demonstrations in Washington and the Port of Charleston are to protest the US Marines allowing Portus Stevedoring Company, a Jacksonville-based company, to move its military cargo operation from Jacksonville, Florida to Charleston but bypassing the use of ILA workers in Charleston. The ILA learned that Portus intends to transport members of the International Union of Operating Engineers and, perhaps even non-union workers, aboard the vessel Lewis and Clark, and have these non-ILA members work the ship at Joint Base Charleston beginning on Monday.
For the past several months, International Vice President Kenneth Riley, ILA military consultant General Patrick Kelly and our ILA staff in Washington has been trying to resolve this issue with the International Union of Operating Engineers. We have been in...
Following the recommendation from the Board of Directors of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), the Cabinet Council of the Government of the Republic of Panama approved the proposal to restructure the Panama Canal’s pricing system.
The new tolls were postponed to October 2012 and October 2013, respectively.
The new structure increases the number of segments from eight to ten. It also breaks down the tanker segment into three distinct segments and incorporates the roll-on/roll-off vessels into the vehicle carrier segment.
More at Maritime Executive
The U.S.-flagged Maersk Illinois
Maersk Line’s ‘Maersk Illinois’ makes her first homeport call in Norfolk, Virginia.
In May 2012, Congress reauthorized the Export-Import Bank’s charter to finance American exports and in doing so upheld U.S. cargo preference laws. The reauthorization helps maintain a stable business environment for capital investments, like the acquisition of Maersk Illinois and her sister ship, Maersk Texas.
More at Marine Link
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