The Port of Portland has presented a comprehensive business plan to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, outlining strategies to maintain container service at Terminal 6, the state’s sole international container terminal….
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Harriet Shing, Minister for Regional Development, Victoria, Australia, has announced a new feasibility study […]
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A California-based food service company is standing behind a driver whom police arrested in Portland, Maine, on Monday after he drove his tractor-trailer into an area filled with protesters.
Anthony McAfee, 45, of Massachusetts, who drives for Quality Custom Distributors (QCD), a subsidiary of Golden State Foods, headquartered in Irvine, California, was arrested and charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, a Class C felony, by the Portland Police Department. He was taken to the...
A judge has overruled a jury’s $93.6m award to ICTSI from the ILWU, over work slowdowns at Portland. The award was reduced to $19m – “the maximum amount sustainable by the proof”. The judge said that an expert witness for ICTSI had “grossly inflated” the economic harm caused, by inflating ICTSI’s baseline shipping volume, and assuming that ICTSI would have been able to raise prices per container and increase shipping volume, …
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Scheduled container shipping services are set to return to the US west coast port of Portland for the first time in three years.
South Korean carrier SM Line has decided to include a call at the Oregon port on one of its transpacific services.
From the beginning of next year, Portland’s Terminal 6 will be added to SM Line’s Pacific Northwest service, which links Vancouver and Seattle with ports in China and …
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This story first reared its head in the first days of The Loadstar. Remember when, in 2012, the ILWU and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) were arguing about whose job it was to plug and unplug reefer containers at Terminal 6 in Portland, Oregon? Well, it resulted in IILWU slowdowns, which affected the port. Now a jury has backed port operator ICTSI’s claims that the union’s campaign led to the …
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Chiefs at seven large US ports have written to President Trump to express their “deep concern” over the “escalating trade conflict” with China.
Claiming tariffs are creating “irredeemable economic harm”, they note there was a 30% decline in exports to China from Californian ports last year, while exports of wheat – grown across 10 states – have nearly ceased.
“The negative impact to these exporters will be long-lasting, because they cannot easily …
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The operator of the Achilleus bulk carrier has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine in a case where the ship’s engineers dumped oily waste into the ocean and then covered up the pollution with false documents, writes David Wren in an article published in The Post and Courier.
What happened?A foreign ship operator has agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine after the vessel’s engineers allegedly dumped oily water into the sea and used false documentation to cover up the pollution.
Portland Bulk Agreed on...http://mfame.guru/portuguese-ship-operator-agrees-to-1-5m-fine-in-charleston-pollution-case/
A German shipping company that transports clay slurry for use in U.S. paper mills pleaded guilty and was sentenced Nov. 2 in Portland, Maine, for obstruction of justice and maintaining falsified logbooks to conceal use of a “magic pipe” to conceal discharges of oily bilge waste, the U.S. Justice Department said.
MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport GmbH (MST), based in Bavaria, Germany, pleaded guilty to the charges involving one of its bulk carriers, the 607’x76’, 27,674 dwt Marguer...