I heard about this from one of my contacts, but they were short on details. Supposedly hundreds of containers are stuck at the port and the movement of containers in and out of the port has been halted. Via newKerala.com:
The lorry drivers had gone on a lightning strike on Tuesday night, complaining about the [...]
No surprise, really: Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, Germany, UK, South Korea, France, Taiwan, Netherlands. It will be interesting to see what happens to China in the rankings next year as weakened U.S. demand along with rising costs make Chinese imports less attractive while exports to China are on the rise. The article has a brief [...]
We mentioned back in March that the Port of Oakland was considering their own clean-air/clean-truck program that had local port customers nervous. Why? Because of the potential to follow in the footsteps of LA/Long Beach in introducing container fees (i.e. container taxes) and pushing drivers into the hands of The Teamsters union by forcing them [...]
In today’s SF Chronicle:
Most of the reductions will be made by reining in the port’s capital improvement program, such as suspending plans to build a third terminal at Oakland International Airport. The airport soon will have lost six carriers this year as Aloha, ATA and Skybus all went bankrupt and Continental, American and Taca [...]
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