North America

America’s top container port, the Port of Los Angeles has signed a five-year labour agreement committing to the creation of some 20,000 jobs.

Continued recovery and fast-tracked expansion plans are todays headline moves for US East Coast ports, according to Paul Bingham, consultant and economist of Wilbur Smith Associates.

America’s use of its federal Harbour Maintenance Tax came under fire as House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica spoke out against its misappropriation.

Many US east coast ports will be unable to cope with spiralling cargo projections without setting significant expansion plans in motion, the US Army Corp of Engineers has warned.

Georgia Ports Authoritys request for $105m from America’s 2012 fiscal budget for deepening works at Savannah has been refused.

Officials managing terminals in the port of New York-New Jersey say they are doing everything they can to eliminate inefficient labour practices, although stress this can only be comprehensively achieved as part…