West Coast Ports

Source: www.thenewstribune.com --- 5 days ago
<b>WASHINGTON – </b>Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast Ports face new competition as Ports in Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they’ve relied on.<p/>More than 70 percent of Asian goods imported into the U.S. – everything from toys to electronics to autos – pass through the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. ...

Source: www.thenewstribune.com --- 7 days ago
Struggling to ride out the recession, Ports in Tacoma, Seattle and elsewhere on the West Coast face new threats as formidable competition from Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they&#146;ve relied on.<p/>About the only threat that West Coast port executives aren&#146;t particularly concerned about is the opening of the Northwest Passage as global warming melts Arctic ice. ...

Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- 4 days ago
WASHINGTON — Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast Ports face new competition as Ports in Canada and Mexico, an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they've relied on. ...

Source: www.lloydslist.com --- 7 days ago
Rival Ports in Canada and Mexico posting healthy increases in throughput. ...

Source: www.wikio.com --- 109 days ago
So far, while 2008 was a terrible year for container traffic at West Coast Ports, 2009 is looking even worse. Here are the figures (in TEUs and their % decline from 2008 for the same time period) from the major West Coast container Ports for January 2009: Los Angeles : 587,004 or -10% Port of Long Beach : [...] Source : 3PLwire ( subscribe ) Explore : Los Angeles ...

Source: www.wikio.co.uk --- 6 days ago
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Struggling to ride out the recession, West Coast Ports face new competition as Ports in Canada and Mexico , an expanded Panama Canal and even the Suez Canal could steal away some of the cross-Pacific shipping they've relied on. Source : WiredNews ( subscribe ) Explore : Entertainment , McClatchy , Panama ...

Source: www.ttnews.com --- 80 days ago
The Southern California Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are losing business to other West Coast Ports, even as the Port of Long Beach approved a $750 million expansion, news services reported. ...

Source: marcchamot.blogspot.com --- 159 days ago
American Ports in Demise, Massive Layoffs & Waves of Unused Equipment Litter West Coast Port Facilities: By Marc Chamot After five years of consecutive growth at West Coast Ports, the global economy has cut deeply into dockworkers jobs and massive loss of revenues for our American port facilities mainly in the West Coast. The downturn has also devastated cargo carriers, and it’s estimated that over 200 ships have been pulled from service around the globe. “Dock work has practically dried up” says one West Coast dockworkers union. “It’s been a steady slide for the past two years or so.” Numerous West Coast Ports have most of their equipment sitting idle; rows upon rows of unused machines, tractors and trucks just sitting there doing nothing. The hours worked at Bay Area Ports were down 13.4 percent in 2007, according to Pacific Maritime Association. And in 2008, the hours worked were off another 10.3 percent! “It’s something we’ve never seen before, it’s such an anomaly, I don’t think there’s any chance to recover from this for a while” says Pacific Maritime Association Chief Executive James McKenna. The annual full time wages for dockworkers are $200,000 for foremen, $145,000 for clerks and $125,000 for long shore workers. Those days of earning that kind of money may be gone. With the American industrial crisis, and coupled in with the declines of our port facilities was a coordinated attack on highly paid unionized workers of America. ...