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13 Sep

Port of LA Nets $20M Federal Infrastructure Grant

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationsinfrastructure, pola

The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded a $20 million federal infrastructure grant to pay for a road-railway grade separation project. The project calls for building a four-lane, rail-roadway grade separation, allowing for trucks to have easier access to an 80-acre marine support facility on Terminal Island, the port said. Currently, high traffic rail tracks and a tunnel with a low-height clearance has made it harder to access the facility for chassis and empty shipping container storage, according to the port. The project is expected to improve that access. When it’s done, the new rail-roadway is expected to link…

09 Aug

Port of LA Seeks Feedback on Berth Improvement Project

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online Newsberthimprovement, pola, vopak

The Port of Los Angeles is asking the public to weigh in on a wharf improvement project at the Vopak-operated liquid bulk terminal located at berths 187-191 in Wilmington, California. The port recently released a Notice of Preparation/Initial Study of the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the project, which calls for improving liquid bulk terminal wharves at Berths 187-190 to be in compliance with Marine Oil Terminal Engineering and Maintenance Standards, as well as repairing and making structural upgrades to the Berth 191 wharf to resume maritime cement operations, according to the port. The project also involves possibly issuing a…

02 Aug

LA, Long Beach Ports’ Container Dwell Fee Delayed to End of August

Karen Robes MeeksNews Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerdwellfee, pola, polb

Officials at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are delaying to the end this month implementation of the “Container Dwell Fee” that would charge ocean carriers for imports lingering past their allotted time at terminals. The new tentative start date for collecting on the fee is set for Aug. 26, the longest stretch of time the ports have postponed the fee launch. Previously, they had been moving the start date weekly based on how quickly ocean carriers have been able to move cargo off their docks. So far, Los Angeles and Long Beach port officials have seen a…

26 Jul

Container Dwell Fee Launch Again Delayed at LA, Long Beach Ports

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerdwellfee, pmsa, pola

Officials at the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaports have decided to again move the start date of their Container Dwell Fee, this time to July 29. The officials again agreed to delay a fee that would charge ocean carriers for imports staying at terminals past their allotted time after seeing a combined 26% drop in lingering cargo since Oct. 25. Officials said that they plan to continue monitoring dwell times over the week. The temporary fee, which lasts until Oct. 26, was developed with the Biden-Harris Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, U.S. Department of Transportation and supply chain stakeholders…

15 Jul

Port of Los Angeles Reports Its Best-Ever June for Cargo

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainervolumes, pola, TEUs

The Port of Los Angeles posted its best June to date last month, processing 876,611 TEUs and narrowly surpassing the previous record month of June 2021, according to data released by the port on Wednesday, July 13. This comes as imports last month fell 5% from June 2021 with 444,680 TEUs. Still, the amount is 12% more than the five previous years averaged, according to POLA figures. Meanwhile, loaded exports in June also dipped 2.3% from the same time last year with 93,890 TEUs at the POLA, where exports have decreased in 39 of the last 44 months. Empty containers…

12 Jul

L.A.-Long Beach Container Dwell Fee Start Date Again Moved

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscargodwellfee, pola, polb

Leaders at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday, July 8 postponed implementing their “Container Dwell Fee” policy on ocean carriers by one week to July 15. The policy, which is expected to remain in effect until at least July 28, was created in conjunction with the Biden-Harris Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, U.S. Department of Transportation and those in the supply chain industry to curb the number of aging cargo containers stacking up at terminals. In May, the average dwell time for a container in both ports was four days, longer than the 3.7 day-average from…

21 Jun

Container Dwell Fee Still on Hold at LA, Long Beach Ports

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operationscontainerdwellfee, pmsa, pola, polb

Amid continued progress on clearing out lingering cargo containers, officials at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles agreed to yet again postpone the start date of their “Container Dwell Fee” to June 24, the adjoining ports announced June 17. The fee, which calls for ocean carriers to be charged for every import sitting at terminals past its allotted time, has been delayed every week by ports’ leaders who have been holding off on collecting on the fee based on how quickly imports are being picked up. The latest data from the ports show a combined 38% drop in…