The Port of Long Beach has scheduled a pair of virtual public meetings for next week to discuss next year’s priorities for its Community Grants Program. Potential grant applicants are invited to attend the workshops. Over the years, the program has funded projects and services that assist those directly affected by port-related activities. Past recipients have included The Children's Clinic, St. Mary Medical Center, and the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma. Since 2009, the port has allotted more than $65 million and so far has committed $33.1 million. The workshops are set to take place virtually from 11:30…

Fewer cargo vessels visited the Port of Oakland last month, resulting in a 20% drop in overall cargo in October compared with the same month last year, according to new data released by the port Monday. Imports fell 14%, while exports dropped 27% when compared to the same time a year ago, the data show. Last month, 43% fewer vessels came to the Northern California seaport than in October 2020 because some ocean carriers chose to send vessels straight to Asia instead of stopping at Oakland after “crippling delays at Southern California ports,” according to a statement released by the…

Earlier this month, Port of Everett commissioners approved an $89 million spending strategy for 2022 that’s focused on enacting initiatives in the port’s Strategic Plan. The budget sets aside $53.7 million for capital improvement efforts, including about $16.8 million for environmental remediation and public access projects. It also proposes $103 million toward the port’s 2022-2026 Capital Improvement Plan, which encompasses dozens of projects that further the Strategic Plan, including completing work on the new Norton Terminal, finishing maintenance dredging and installing a new restroom at Jetty Landing & Boat Launch, reconfiguring the fuel dock and building, and mixed-use developments at…

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have again delayed its consideration of their proposed container dwell fee, moving the potential start date to Nov. 29. Officials from both ports delayed it after meeting Monday with U.S. Port Envoy John Porcari and supply chain representatives and seeing significant progress in moving cargo more quickly off terminals. Since announcing the fee Oct. 25, there’s been a 33% drop of containers lingering on the docks past the allotted time at both ports, prompting Los Angeles and Long Beach officials to review the temporary fee after week of data observation. They both…

The Port of Los Angeles was short of reaching its record October last month when it handled 902,644 TEUs, according to new cargo data. The nation’s busiest seaport moved 8% less cargo last month than it did in October 2020, its busiest October ever. Imports last month dropped 8% to 467,287 TEUs year-over-year and exports fell 32% to 98,251 TEUs. Meanwhile, empty containers rose 2% to 337,106 TEUs from October 2020. Still, Los Angeles moved 22% more cargo this year so far with more than nine million TEUs compared to the same time last year with more than 7.4 million…

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced the dates for two virtual public meetings aimed at gathering feedback for an environmental review of the newly designated Morro Bay Wind Energy Area. The meetings are scheduled for 5 p.m. PT Dec. 1 and 9 a.m. PT on Jan. 5. Those who can’t attend may still submit input until Jan. 11. BOEM recently designated 20 miles offshore the central California coastline and roughly 240,898 acres as the Morro Bay WEA, a possible area for offshore wind energy development. The feedback is expected to be part of an Environmental Assessment to look…

The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a second vessel that may be linked to a massive oil spill that leaked thousands of gallons of crude Oct. 2 and temporarily closed Orange County beaches. Investigators on Thursday boarded the vessel BEIJING in the Port of Long Beach after Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad, chief of investigations for Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, found that the vessel was part of an anchor-dragging incident from severe weather Jan. 25 and was in the vicinity of the pipeline found to be the leak source. The Coast Guard has named…

Rail and truck movement remained stymied at Port of Vancouver in British Columbia on Thursday in the aftermath of severe rain and flooding throughout Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley. Earlier this week, British Columbia’s Pacific region was besieged by two days of torrential downpours that have resulted in at least one woman dead, thousands of people displaced, cargo and business disrupted and thousands of dollars in massive damage. The port’s marine terminals remain open through the disruption, but washouts and landslides have shut down Canadian Pacific Rail and Canadian National Railway’s main rail corridors between Vancouver and Kamloops, according to…

On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Port Envoy John D. Porcari met with city and harbor leaders at the Port of Long Beach to spotlight efforts to ease bottlenecks at the nation’s second-busiest seaport. They assembled at Pier T at Total Terminals International, where the terminal is conducting a 24/7 operations pilot program with the addition of an overnight shift, the first terminal in San Pedro Bay to do so. The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, which have been moving cargo at record levels, have seen a 32% drop in containers sitting on the docks thanks…