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On January 15, Port of Portland Commissioners wrote a letter urging the employers to reach a grain agreement with the ILWU
2013 proved to be the Port of Long Beach (POLB)’s third busiest year in its history in terms of cargo volume, behind record-setting years 2006 and 2007.
According to POLB, imports increased 12.8% over 2012 to 3,455,323 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs); exports increased 10.7% to 1,704,932 TEUs; and empties were up 8.8% to 1,570,318 TEUs for a cargo volume total of 6,730,573 TEUs, or an 11.3% increase over 2012. 2006 and 2007, saw 7,290,365 and 7,312,465 TEUs respectively.
The rise in cargo volume was attributed to the increased presence of massive shipping liners CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company in Long Beach.
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Bishop Richard PatesAs the United States Congress discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that potentially involves 13 nations, the chairman of two committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offered eight principles for consideration.
“While the USCCB does not take positions for or against particular trade agreements, we would like to take this opportunity to offer principles for your consideration that defend human life and dignity, protect the environment and public health, and promote justice and peace in our world,” said Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace and Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
First among the principles is labor protection:
The Church teaches work has inherent dignity. We support the protection of worker rights, including the right to organize, as well as compliance with internationally-agreed worker standards. Our concern with job loss in our own urban and rural communities requires that any agreement be accompanied by firm commitments to help US workers, as well as their...
Bunge Brasil, a subsidiary of U.S. based Bunge Ltd, said it is closing a soy processing plant in southern Rio Grande do Sul state this week, saying Brazil’s tax structure favors the export of raw soybeans. According to Reuters, Brazil’s soy crushing plants processed less in 2013 than in the previous year after President Dilma Rousseff’s government lifted the so-called PIS/Cofins social-security and payroll tax from the cooking-oil industry, leaving crushers holding large amounts of worthless tax credits.
Soyoil producers had previously been able to use those credits against other tax liabilities, but many of those taxes were also lifted. The changes have hurt the crushing industry’s profit margins and resulted in idle processing plants.
Bunge still has six soy processing plants in Brazil, in five different states.
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