Barely three hours after a lockout of 6,500 dockers across British Columbia began today, a tentative deal for a new collective agreement was announced between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Canada and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association. The previous agreement expired in March 2018.

Barring a last-minute breakthrough, nearly 7,000 dockworkers across British Columbia will be locked out by their employers starting with the first shift Thursday in the latest development in an ongoing labor dispute dominated by automation issues.

The Québec Port Authority (QPA) today announced the signing of a long-term commercial agreement with Hutchison Ports and Canadian National Railway to build and operate a new C$775 million container terminal, known as project Laurentia (previously Beauport 2020).

Despite current uncertainties associated with international trade, long-term trends in global demand for soybeans and their derivatives remain encouraging for American farmers.

Although in a legal strike position Monday (May 27th), the union representing longshore workers in the Vancouver area instead took targeted job action by notably banning overtime and left the door open to resuming negotiations with maritime employers on Canada’s west coast that had found no resolution over the weekend.

The theme of the 2019 National Maritime Day Celebration at the Port of Oakland was “Celebrating Seafarers & Empowering Women.”

Jerry Moro, director of Northern California Operations for the Harbor Trucking Association, says plans for the Oakland Athletics’ baseball park to be constructed at the current site of the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal will generate so much car traffic that harbor trucking will be brought to a near standstill during baseball games and other events.

Gabe Abastillas, Sales Manager, PCC Logistics/Oakland is reaching out to younger people in the maritime transportation and logistics business not just to encourage sales but also to encourage participation and job opportunities in the maritime and logistics industries.

Among the fastest-growing ports in North America, the Port of Prince Rupert has announced the completion of a container terminal master plan that outlines the potential of future container terminal capacity and sequencing of development at the Pacific gateway in northern British Columbia.

John Cullather has been selected by the International Propeller Club as its new Executive Vice President and tells AJOT: “I want to expand the grass roots base of the Propeller Club to support Jones Act industries and jobs, maritime schools and education, offshore wind, ocean and inland shipping, maritime safety, the oil and gas industries and our ports.”