Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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To January the traffic of the container in the port of Los Angeles is diminished of -22,8%
Reached a preliminary agreement on I renew of the employment contract, depends on a return to normality
February 27, 2015
The mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Eric Garcetti and Robert Garcia, burning confide that the preliminary agreement on the employment contract of the harbour workers signed some day ago from Maritime the entrepreneurial association Pacific Association (PMA) and from the union International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) lead to a long-lasting social peace on the docks of the two Californian ports, whose activity remarkablly is diminished in the last weeks because of the actions of protest of the workers.
If to Long Beach the reduction of the operating activity has been evidenced in particular last month with a decrease of the -18,8% of the traffic of the container enlivened from the terminals of the port ( on 19 February 2015), also to Los Angeles an analogous decrease of the traffic is recorded. To January on the docks of Los Angeles the containerized trade has been pairs altogether to 529 thousand teu, with a contraction of the -22,8% regarding 685 thousand teu enlivened in January 2014. The container full to the disembarkation and the boarding is piled respective to 259 thousand teu (- 28.0%) and 124 thousand teu (- 23.2%). Handling of empty containers has been pairs to 146 thousand teu (- 10.8%).
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The mayors of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Eric Garcetti and Robert Garcia, burning confide that the preliminary agreement on the employment contract of the harbour workers signed some day ago from Maritime the entrepreneurial association Pacific Association (PMA) and from the union International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) lead to a long-lasting social peace on the docks of the two Californian ports, whose activity remarkablly is diminished in the last weeks because of the actions of protest of the workers.
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