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The Port of Seattle expects to retain its title as the largest cruise ship port on the U.S. West Coast this year with the port playing host to some 805,000 cruise passengers and 178 ship calls.
The first ships of the season, Holland America’s ms Westerdam and Princess Cruises’ Golden Princess, kicked off the summer cruise season over the weekend arriving at the port’s Smith Cove Passenger Terminal.
Seattle has surpassed Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco and San Diego in recent years to become the cruise ship capital of the West Coast. A sharp reduction in cruises to Mexico from Southern California ports has left those ports in Seattle’s shadow.
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Reuters reports that a huge crop combined with a frigid winter caused CN and rival Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd to fall behind on filling requests for grain hopper cars to country elevators. This caused grains and oilseeds to pile up in commercial and farm storage, including the largest wheat stocks in 20 years as of March 31.
The Canadian unit of global grain trader Louis Dreyfus Corp has complained to the Canadian government about service from the country’s biggest railway, Canadian National Railway Co, following a record-breaking harvest that has led to transportation bottlenecks.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities, which operates a canola-crushing plant at Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and 10 country elevators in Western Canada, filed a complaint on April 16, the Canadian Transportation Agency said on Monday.
The agency said Dreyfus complained about CN’s service based on a contract between the two companies. The company has also requested that the agency issue an interim order requiring CN to abide by contractual terms during the proceedings.
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Suntracs has presented a new wage proposal to the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac) in an attempt to end the stoppage that is affecting some 400 projects, 98% of all the construction work in the country.
Panama Canal expansion works remain suspended by the Construction Workers National Union (Suntracs), which called a general strike on all construction works on 23 April.
Suntracs has presented a new wage proposal to the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (Capac) in an attempt to end the stoppage that is affecting some 400 projects, 98% of all the construction work in the country.
Saul Mendez the Suntracs secretary general said that in recent days there have been significant advances. Neither party provided details of the new offers.
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