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Commentary: The Wild West

Thursday, October 25, 2012

While the focus of the container shipping industry has understandably been trained on U.S. East and Gulf coast ports this year, political squabbles at several U.S. West Coast ports are slowly bubbling over. In Long Beach, a rift has emerged among the port’s harbor commission over accusations that two commissioners and some former port and city executives influenced a decision to relocate the port’s headquarters to a specific location for their own financial benefit. Th...

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