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PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE
By Chris Philips,
Managing Editor
In mid-April, Nancy McLernon, president and CEO of Organization for International Investment, wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which she claimed that only a handful of US ports could accommodate “the most modern transport ships.”
She blamed this lack of capacity on a shortage of US dredges, and singled out a 112-year-old law, the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906, as the culprit for our country’s sad state of port capacity.
Ms. McLernon claimed, as an example, that a deepening project at the Port of Savannah was two years late and almost 40 percent over budget, because “US dredging companies simply aren’t capable of meeting demand…
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 Big May for Long Beach
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The Port of Long Beach recently posted its busiest May to date, moving 687,427 TEUs. That’s six percent more compared to 2017, according to the port’s latest tally…(Read full article)
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Los Angeles Capital Improvements Budgeted
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Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners passed a $1.3 billion fiscal year 2018-2019 budget for the Port of Los Angeles…(Read full article)
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Grays Harbor to Receive Army Corps
of Engineers Attention
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By Karen Robes Meeks
As part of its 2018 Work Plan, the US Army Corps of Engineers intends to budget an additional $4.255 million toward operations and maintenance work in Grays Harbor County… (Read full article)
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Oakland Executive Promotes Globalization
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Earlier this month, Port of Oakland Executive Director Chris Lytle returned to his alma mater, Central Washington University… (Read full article)
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