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CLEAN PORTS * USA - LA/LB Scramble to Improve Reputation
Ports plan changes as volume falls because of attitude, high-costs
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jun 12, 2009: -- The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia... Los Angeles has experienced its ninth straight month of cargo declines. Long Beach’s container volume is down 28 percent year-to-date. The Southern California port complex has experienced almost a 5 percent loss of market share since 2006... While cargo volumes at many U.S. ports are also down about 20 percent this year, the Southern California port complex has lost additional cargo because of resistance by shippers to the ports’ fees, reputation for undependable labor and an unfriendly business attitude both at the port and the state government... The ports admit their failings and are moving aggressively to address these problems... Both ports have announced reductions in port charges to attract more intermodal cargo, and Los Angeles will announce soon a one-year waiver of charges on cargo transferred from one port to another... The unpopular clean-trucks fee initiated in February may become a thing of the past in short course. Lytle noted that pre-1994 trucks and non-retrofitted pre-2004 trucks will be banned on Jan. 1, 2010. That will leave only about 500 of the more than 9,000 trucks that call regularly at the port complex subject to the $35 per-TEU fee... (Photo from ens-newswire.com: trucks at Long Beach Port)
* Long Beach Eyes Canada’s Subsidies - Rail supports may put U.S. ports at competitive disadvantage
Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Peter T. Leach -Jun 11, 2009: -- The Port of Long Beach is concerned that it faces unfair competition from British Columbia’s Port of Prince Rupert because of Canadian government subsidies... U.S. ports on the West Coast may be at a competitive disadvantage with Canadian ports because of Canadian government subsidies to the Canadian railroads that serve those ports, said James C. Hankla, president of the Long Beach Harbor Commission... The port is looking into the possibility that the ports of Prince Rupert and Vancouver are getting an unfair advantage over U.S. ports under Canada’s Asia-Gateway Pacific Corridor program... Long Beach port executives shared their concerns with the DOT in a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation Joel Szabot... (Photo from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: Vancouver, Island, and Prince Rupert ports)
* Long Beach Denies Dispute With Canada - No complaints filed, or planned, about port subsidies
Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Courtney Tower -Jun 12, 2009: -- The sound today at the Port of Long Beach, and among angry Canadian ports, is the sound of wind rushing out of the sails of a dispute over alleged port subsidies... Long Beach, the second-busiest port in the U.S., whose container traffic has dropped markedly over recent months, did not make a complaint about Canada to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as news media reported, and is not even thinking of it...
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