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GujaratAP Moller Maersk group company Gujarat Pipavav Port said it has upgraded its infrastructure with the ability to carry double-stack high cube containers.
APM Terminals Pipavav and the Indian Railways in 2006 pioneered double stack movement in the country, when its first train moved along the Jaipur-Pipavav route, capability of double-stacking was limited to general purpose containers of a height of 8 feet and 6 inches due to structures across the tracks en route.
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TEMCO grain terminal expansion in Kalama, WA. Photo by Roger Werth/The Daily News
Temco, co-owned by Cargill and CHS Inc., hopes to complete its $50 million grain-export expansion by early 2014. General contractor Borton LLC of Kansas hired Longview-based JH Kelly to do most of the construction, which is employing 100 union workers.
Temco, the smaller of two grain terminals in Kalama, announced the expansion after the Columbia River channel was deepened by three feet, to 43 feet, allowing bulk grain ships to carry more cargo per load.
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In the letter, Inslee cites a temporary contract agreement between the ILWU and Temco — an operator of grain export facilities in Portland, Tacoma and Kalama — as an example that progress can be made in Vancouver. “We know that common ground can be met with good faith bargaining as shown by the Temco agreement and hope similar negotiations and progress can be made here,” Inslee wrote.
Schuld, CEO of United Grain, responded to Inslee in a July 16 letter, rejecting the Temco agreement as a model for future talks. Schuld said Temco voluntarily left the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association in December to seek its own deal with the ILWU. And that deal is temporary, Schuld said, with a contingency clause allowing it to be changed to include beneficial changes the union may accept in a contract with the remaining members of the Grain Handlers Association.
“It’s a straw man,” Schuld wrote to Inslee, “not a substantive basis for a labor agreement.”
Jennifer Sargent, spokeswoman for the ILWU, said Friday that Temco is the largest of the grain exporters, with three West Coast elevators, “making their agreement with the ILWU the...
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Global ports group controlled by Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed accused of tax avoidance following rate booster schemeDP World, the global ports group controlled by the Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, has pledged to pursue a court appeal after a scheme to artificially generate £14m of tax relief was thrown out by a tribunal last week.
The dispute with HMRC relates to a scheme dreamed up by P&O in 2004. At the time, KPMG were auditors and tax advisers to P&O, receiving £5.2m in fees during 2004, including £2.8m in tax work and other non-audit fees.
P&O transactions between UK and Australian subsidiaries in October 2004 sought to artificially create a UK tax credit for foreign tax payments. Such avoidance structures are known as “rate booster” schemes. Last week the tribunal branded the scheme “an elaborate trick”.
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