Longshoremen worked at slightly increased speed Sunday afternoon to send Portland’s last container ship in a while on its way, a Port of Portland spokesman said.
Josh Thomas said workers at Terminal 6 still faced a shortage of equipment for loading and unloading the Hanjin Madrid, a 51,000-ton ship delivering containers of cargo from Asia.
The ship was expected to depart Portland later Sunday, leaving the city without substantial international container service. Managers of Hanjin and Hapag-Lloyd steamship lines say their vessels won’t call on Portland again until a bitter labor dispute is resolved.
