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From Port Strategy:
Each AGV has a capacity of 70 tons.US equipment company, Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has received an order for 72 battery powered Terex Gottwald Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) from Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).
The order is the first for AGVs and associated equipment that has ever been placed outside Europe and marks the introduction of Terex Gottwald automated container handling solutions in the USA.
More at Port Strategy
From the Journal of Commerce:
Denise Krepp, a consultant and former Chief Counsel at the U.S. Maritime Administration, said the Obama administration hasn’t done enough to enforce cargo preference requirements that federal departments use the U.S.-flag fleet for transport.U.S maritime advocates have warned of the crippling of the Merchant Marine before, only for the institution dating back to revolutionary days to soldier on. This time, however, their fears appear warranted.
Reports suggest that the Obama administration, through its yet-to-be-released fiscal 2014 budget, will seek to end foreign food aid programs that the U.S.-flag fleet depends on.
The greater threat is that the Merchant Marine will shrink in terms of vessels and mariners to the point that it can’t support military operations during times of crisis, said James Caponiti, executive director of the American Maritime Congress. The ocean fleet numbers roughly 200 commercially-owned and commercially-operated vessels that provides jobs to more than 11,000 mariners.
More at the JOC
The 15 TSA members, which include Orient Overseas Container Line, Cosco Container Lines, China Shipping Container Lines and Maersk Line, control about 85 per cent of the freight transported from Asia to the US. Members of the WTSA, which has seen membership drop to eight members from 10, including OOCL, Cosco and Evergreen Line, ship about 60 per cent of the freight from the US to Asia.The Federal Maritime Commission in the United States has approved the merger of two container line lobby groups that together control most of the containerized cargo shipped between Asia and America.
The move will allow the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement to join forces with the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement.
Carrier-line members of the TSA and the WTSA are banned from colluding to fix freight rates under US antitrust laws, but the two groups can set voluntary rate guidelines and make recommendations about how much carriers can raise rates and other charges.
More in the South China Morning Post
Solidarity with US dockers locked out by Mitsui
Dockers at the Port of Vancouver in Washington, USA have now been locked out for six weeks by their employer, Japanese conglomerate Mitsui-United Grain.
The ITF sees this as an anti union attack and an attempt to avoid negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) after the existing agreement expired.
Click this link to show your support for the Vancouver dockers!
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