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May29No Comments

Garcetti nominates shipping executive as Port of Los Angeles director

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday nominated a veteran shipping company executive to become director of the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest harbor for container cargo. If approved by the City Council, Gene Seroka, 49, head of the...
Apr21No Comments

Beyond Freeways: Commerce, Community, and Contention along Los Angeles’s 710 Corridor

How a freeway crushes communities, how residents are fighting back plans to make it even bigger, and what alternatives have been presented to yet more of the same…. Read the full article
Apr09No Comments

Cleaning up ports and container transport

Ninety percent of goods are transported around the world by ship. Los Angeles has two ports. The ports of Los Angeles and the port of Long Beach. Together they are the largest port in the western hemisphere. Ports are a big point source of pollution....
Feb07No Comments

Port productivity: Handling freight more efficiently

As cargo ships get bigger, shipping lines unite and world trade grows only slowly, seaports are facing growing pressure to offer faster service at lower rates to lure major customers to their docks. Some 140 port experts from around the nation met in...
Jan27No Comments

Work begins on world’s largest containership

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has this week began building the first of five 19,000 TEU containerships on behalf of China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. The first vessel, due for delivery in November this year, will become the world’s...
Jan27No Comments

UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening

Dubai Port London Gateway is a £1.5bn development covering 560 acres on the north bank of The Thames on the site of the former Shellhaven refinery near Stanford Le Hope. It has, literally, the capacity to change the Railfreight container business and...
Nov26No Comments

To keep L.A. and Long Beach’s ports trucking

It takes 10,000 professional truck drivers to move all the goods that come into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. And it’s no wonder. Our two ports handle 40% of all goods imported to the United States. A lot of the jobs generated by the...
Nov21No Comments

Cost of terminal upgrade at Port of Los Angeles doubled over 4 years

The price tag for a major container terminal upgrade at the Port of Los Angeles has more than doubled over the last four years, caused in large part by major design changes OK’d without the approval of city elected officials. Read the full article...
Nov18No Comments

Bipartisan BRIDGE Act Bridges Infrastructure Investment Gap

Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2013) – General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – Terry O’Sullivan, praised the Building and Renewing Infrastructure for Development and Growth in Employment Act, introduced...
Nov12No Comments

In New Orleans, Obama pushes exports

President Obama headed to the Port of New Orleans on Friday to call on Congress to get behind his plan to pour tens of billions of dollars into the nation’s infrastructure, action that he says is crucial to bolster U.S. exports. The visit to New...