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Source: bajarealestateblog.blogspot.com --- 37 days ago
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Baja port could rival L.A.’s Some doubt the $4-billion project will be built, but backers dream of dominating West Coast Cargo Traffic. By Marla Dickerson and Ronald D. White March 25, 2008 in print edition A-1 Go to Original Mexico’s government is preparing to open bidding on the largest infrastructure project in the nation’s history, a $4-billion seaport that could transform this farming village into a Cargo hub to rival the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. If completed as planned by 2014, the port would be the linchpin of a new shipping route linking the Pacific Ocean to America’s heartland. Vessels bearing shipping containers from Asia would offload them here on Mexico’s Baja peninsula, about 150 miles south of Tijuana, where they would be whisked over newly constructed rail lines to the United States. The massive development, which is to be privately funded, is attracting interest from heavyweights such as Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu. The world’s second-richest man is part of a consortium planning an “aggressive” run at the project, according to Miguel Favela, general director of Mexican operations for Cargo terminal operator MTC Holdings of Oakland. Favela said MTC had teamed up with Slim’s IDEAL infrastructure company and Mexican mining and railroad giant Grupo Mexico in an effort to nab the 45-year concession. Mexico’s transportation secretariat will release the request for proposal in June a ... Source: blogs.customhouseguide.com --- 89 days ago
Traffic at the nation’s major retail Cargo ports is slowly climbing despite the continuing economic slowdown, but is expected to remain below last year’s levels through most of 2008, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Global Insight. Meanwhile, West Coast dockworkers’ union contract expired July [...] ... Source: americanrigradio.com --- 3 days ago
September 26, 2008 News in Review Welcome to News in Review, American Rig Radio’s podcast news, covering the trucking industry for desk jockeys, salt shakers and stick haulers. We’ll look at stories from Traffic World Online’s daily briefing, including tapping Canada’s oil sands; shaky financial markets may cause nervousness in the big trucking companies as well; you may have to get Santa to deliver this year if you want online purchases without a hefty shipping fee; stickers are the admission ticket for West Coast ports; the annual Special Olympics truck convoy took place over the weekend; Europe is experiencing a crime spree targeting truckers; the Wall Street Journal posted ideas online to help protect your money; the October Roemer report mentions the lack of stores stocking up for holiday sales, drivers who got busted for drugs aren’t admitting it to future employers and a major trucking company reports major results from a new health plan for its workers, and finally Cargo News Asia notes Thermo King has new refrigeration units which produce significant fuel savings. Truckin’ Trivia Last week’s Truckin’ Trivia question proved to be a hard one, according to listeners. Remember? You’re driving a fully-loaded rig at 60 mph, and suddenly you’ve got one second to prevent a rear-end accident. How many extra feet of stopping space does that second give you? The answer is ... you'll need to listen to find out. This week’s question is e ... Find more results for West Coast Cargo Traffic on RSSMicro.com |
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To collapsing banks and rising fuel prices, add laggard dockworkers to the plagues afflicting the U.S. economy. As San Francisco-based negotiations drag on between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU ) and the shippers syndicate Pacific Maritime Association , (PMA) dockworkers have begun flexing their muscles by slowing down Cargo Traffic at West Coast ports, reports the shipping newsletter Traffic World . During mid July workers slowed car movement on 10 percent of ships, Traffic World quoted a PMA spokesman as saying. And on July 21, pace slowed on a quarter of ships, in an apparent show of force by union members keen on continuing their status as America’s most highly paid industrial laborers. ...