Excerpts from a News Tribune article titled ”Port productivity remains subpar”: Craig Merrilees, a spokesman for the union, said the employers are unfairly scapegoating the union as the source of the lowered...
Read MoreExcerpts from the Journal of Commerce: Ports are paying the price for trimming investments in the wake of the 2008-09 global financial crisis that ended years of double-digit traffic growth and must boost productivity or expand...
Read MoreExcerpts from ”New talks Tuesday will try to resolve West Coast port terminals dispute” by KIRO Radio in Seattle: After weeks of lost productivity, backlogs and finger-pointing, contract talks resume Tuesday between...
Read MoreSlumping coal markets have caught up with the Australian company proposing two export terminals in Oregon and Washington. Ambre Energy is getting out of the North American coal market, a victim of a sharp decline in...
Read MoreAgricultural trading giant Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV said it has appointed former Viterra CEO Mayo Schmidt as chief executive officer, ending a year-and-a-half-long search. The choice of Mr. Schmidt, an outsider who spent...
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