Coos Bay Rail Link and the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay have entered into a 10-year agreement authorizing CBR to operate the 134-mile line.
Oregon
30 May 2013
Unapproved genetically engineered wheat has been discovered growing on a farm in Oregon, which could disrupt American exports of the grain, The New York Times reports.
29 May 2013
Ray LaHood, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has assigned $10.9 million, via a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant, to the City of West Memphis, Ark., to expand the city’s ports.
24 May 2013
Oregon’s Port of Portland reported container traffic totaled 14,006 20-foot-equivalent units in April, dropping 30 percent year-over-year and 17 percent month-to-month.
20 May 2013
Canada’s West Coast container ports stayed level in the first quarter of 2013 with the robust growth they experienced last year. When compared with the first quarter of 2012, Canadian ports saw a higher throughput volume in the first quarter of 2013, but a slight dip in West Coast traffic market share.
06 May 2013
Contract disagreements between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest accelerated over the weekend as Columbia Grain in Portland became the second facility where management locked out union workers.
25 Apr 2013
Washington’s ports led the U.S. West Coast in container volume growth in 2012, according to the recently-released Pacific Maritime Association annual report.
18 Apr 2013
Oregon’s Port of Portland container traffic totaled 16,917 20-foot-equivalent units in March, an increase of 12 percent from March 2012 and 2 percent from February.
28 Feb 2013
Canada’s West Coast container ports saw robust growth in 2012 while for the most part their U.S. counterparts stagnated or declined, according to analysis of each port’s published data. The result is that Canada’s share of total West Coast volumes is growing.
19 Feb 2013
Hapag-Lloyd will hike rates for all cargo and container types on its trade from North America to Latin America, effective April 1.
15 Feb 2013
The Portland Port Commission approved a $3.7 million partial rent rebate program to reimburse terminal operator ICTSI Ore
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