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Printed in the Oregonian:
Hanjin departure from longshore union’s point of view: Guest opinion
Print By Guest Columnist
on November 02, 2013
By Leal Sundet
Since Hanjin Shipping Co.’s Oct. 17 announcement that it intends to stop calling on Portland, ICTSI Oregon Inc., the local arm of the Philippines-based company that operates Terminal 6, has been publicly blaming its local ILWU-represented workforce for Hanjin’s departure.
ICTSI’s first three years of attempting to run a U.S. port terminal have been a failure for reasons that have nothing to do with the men and women who have made Portland a productive port for decades.
ICTSI inherited the Port of Portland’s terminal use agreement with Hanjin when it leased Terminal 6 in 2010. That agreement expired in December 2012, and after months of negotiations between ICTSI and Hanjin, the parties couldn’t agree on new terms. The negotiations failed because ICTSI insisted on charging Hanjin rates that were substantially higher than normal — rates that ICTSI intended to increase, as part of its business model, regardless of any alleged labor issues. ICTSI further sought to terminate the...

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