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Reality has set in for the ports of Los Angeles. They were going to raise fees. Now they are losing business with the current fees.
"The projects would be completed with matching funds from the Proposition 1B transportation measure, approved in 2006 by state voters.
Part of the problem stems from a provision that requires the ports to complete a series of environmental impact reports for the proposed projects before the fee could ever be collected from shippers, McDermott said.
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Additionally, officials said it may be the wrong time to impose an additional cargo fee as shipments continue to decline amid the lingering recession. The ports already charge a $35 fee on 20-foot cargo containers to purchase cleaner-burning big rigs for the Clean Trucks Program."
In ten years or so, the Mexican government will have a super port south of the border. That, along NAFTA opening our roads to Mexican trucking firms, these US ports will be major money losers--we will lose the jobs and the revenues. In fifteen years these ports will probably be closed.
This reality is just beginning to set into the minds of the unions and government agents running the ports. We need plans, now, on what to do with the ports in the future.
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"The projects would be completed with matching funds from the Proposition 1B transportation measure, approved in 2006 by state voters.
Part of the problem stems from a provision that requires the ports to complete a series of environmental impact reports for the proposed projects before the fee could ever be collected from shippers, McDermott said.
years
Additionally, officials said it may be the wrong time to impose an additional cargo fee as shipments continue to decline amid the lingering recession. The ports already charge a $35 fee on 20-foot cargo containers to purchase cleaner-burning big rigs for the Clean Trucks Program."
In ten years or so, the Mexican government will have a super port south of the border. That, along NAFTA opening our roads to Mexican trucking firms, these US ports will be major money losers--we will lose the jobs and the revenues. In fifteen years these ports will probably be closed.
This reality is just beginning to set into the minds of the unions and government agents running the ports. We need plans, now, on what to do with the ports in the future.
More...