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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM * USA - Port Authority Chief: "Inevitable for NY-NJ"
Newark,New Jersey,USA -Shipping Digest, by JOHN GALLAGHER -December 8, 2008: -- The opportunity is ripe for environmentalists in the areas around marine terminals in New York and northern New Jersey to push for cleaner trucks... Approximately 9,000 drayage truckers serve the nation’s third-largest container port, which handles more than 5 million TEUs and 30 million tons of ocean cargo annually... Some type of clean-trucks program in the port is inevitable, said Christopher Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. However, that doesn’t mean a Southern California-style ban on owner-operators at the port is a given... The Teamsters union, a strong advocate of the clean-trucks plan at the San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, wants similar programs to spread to ports across the country, along with a requirement that drayage drivers be company employees, and therefore eligible for union membership...
* Federal judge delays Clean Trucks ruling
Torrance,CA,USA -The Daily Breeze -5 Dec 2008: -- Clean trucks will continue to roll in at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles - at least until January... A federal judge Friday delayed a ruling on whether to block portions of a harbor Clean Trucks Program, blaming a heavy workload that includes several cases involving detainees at Guantanamo Bay... U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said he would not make a decision before 2009 on the Federal Maritime Commission's request to invalidate parts of the truck plan... The FMC, a federal agency which oversees national shipping laws, filed the suit against Long Beach and Los Angeles in October, saying the ports' concession agreements are illegal because they would unfairly raise shipping prices and slash competition in the nation's busiest commercial harbor...
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