The Port of Charleston\u2019s Hugh K. Leatherman marine terminal is ramping up operations after the South Carolina Ports Authority (SC Ports) and the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) reached a settlement in a long-running dispute that has kept the terminal largely offline since its opening in 2021.<\/p>\n
The agreement, which follows the ILA\u2019s de-facto victory in a legal case that almost reached the US Supreme Court, gives Leatherman\u2019s crane operators \u201ca choice to remain state employees or become an ILA member,\u201d SC Ports said in a statement. State employees at its other container terminals can also elect to become ILA members, or they can remain an employee of SC Ports.<\/p>\n
The deal also effectively increases Charleston\u2019s container handling capacity by a third at a time when the port is working to clear a backlog of five ships waiting to unload.<\/p>\n
SC Ports said in the statement its board of directors at a meeting Tuesday approved a \u201cframework for the transition and change in labor staffing\u201d at the Leatherman terminal that will allow ocean carriers in the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) to call the Leatherman terminal without the threat of violating their master contract with the ILA. SC Ports said the deal creates \u201clong-term stability and competitiveness\u201d for Charleston.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now a new day, and we must cooperatively adapt to the reality of the new labor staffing allocation,\u201d SC Ports Chief Executive Barbara Melvin told the board of a directors, according to a transcript of the meeting obtained Wednesday. \u201cAnd that means working collaboratively with the ILA in a way to get Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal reopened as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Details please refer to JOC news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Angell, M. (2024b, June 28). Near-normal water levels allowing more ship transits through Panama Canal<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/near-normal-water-levels-allowing-more-ship-transits-through-panama-canal_20240628.html<\/p>\n The Port of Charleston\u2019s Hugh K. Leatherman marine terminal is ramping up operations after the South Carolina Ports Authority (SC Ports) and the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) reached a settlement in a long-running dispute that has kept the terminal largely offline since its opening in 2021. The agreement, which follows the ILA\u2019s de-facto victory in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-maritime","tag-us-ports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}