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T & L News * USA - Seattle Containers Boom in December
Other Pacific Northwest ports struggle to emerge from year-long slump
Seattle,WASH,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jan 25, 2010: -- The Port of Seattle reported blockbuster results in container traffic for December, with imports growing 32.6 percent and exports doubling even as other Pacific Northwest ports still showed the effects of the global downturn... Containerized imports in Seattle increased 32.6 percent compared to December 2008, and exports were up 103 percent. Seattle's total container volume, including empties, was 29.3 percent higher than in December 2008... For the calendar year, Seattle's total container volume dropped 7.1 percent compared to 2008. Tacoma's total container volume was down 16.9 percent and Portland's total container volume was down 29 percent from 2008... (Picture: A Cosco's ship sunset at Seattle port)* Environmental Groups Blast Port of Seattle CEO. Tay Yoshitani attempts to gut Congressional clean air efforts
Seattle,WASH,USA -The Washington Free Press, by Heather Weiner/Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports -25 Jan 2009: -- The Port of Seattle's CEO, Tay Yoshitani, is taking on a large national coalition of environmental groups, labor unions, the mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and Oakland, and many Democratic leaders in a fight over proposed environmental legislation in Congress. On January 25, say insiders at the American Association of Port Authorities, Yoshitani is expected to ask the group's policy committee to formally oppose legislation that would empower ports to set environmental, safety, security and operational standards for port trucking companies doing business on their property... Yoshitani's move isolates him from major American ports that have embraced the need to grow greenly and have sought solutions to the deadly air pollution and other security and congestion concerns that put local communities at risk. Yoshitani -- who at $330,000 a year is the highest paid port official in the country -- is backed by his former employer, the National Association of Waterfront Employers, as well as other industry lobbies like the American Trucking Association. His views are also aligned with corporate retail shippers like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Target...
* Seattle's Port Truckers: Supported by McGinn, Spurned by the Port
Seattle,WASH,USA -The Stranger, by Jake Blumgart -Jan 26, 2010: ... Yoshitani's stance against port reform has been clear for some time. The Port of Seattle has given K Street lobbyists, specifically McBee Strategic Consulting, $60,000 in Port money (i.e., taxpayer money) to combat closing the “independent contractor” loophole. Yoshitani has also entered into an alliance with the reactionary American Trucking Association (ATA), which has slowed down progressive change in ports nationwide by blocking LA’s Clean Trucks Program, which would have required trucking companies to take responsibility for the drivers and their dirty rigs. (The court battle between ATA and LA is preventing any other ports from enacting similar legislation, which is why the battle has moved to the halls of Congress)... The weird thing is that Yoshitani is technically a public employee, hired by the port commissioners, some of whom have come out in favor of Clean Truck legislation. So why is he being allowed to run around undercutting his bosses ? Sounds like a job for newly elected, pro-reform port commissioner Rob Holland!
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