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Portland Port's Container Future Uncertain After Last Service Exits by Reynolds Hutchins Journal of Commerce, May 19, 2016

Moreover, Portland's loss has been Seattle and Tacoma's gain, as containerized cargo
that could be diverted from the Oregon port has remained with the Northwest Seaport Alliance.

The Port of Portland has lost its last container line service, raising the question of whether the Oregon gateway will ever re-enter the container business following severe labor issues.

Westwood Shipping Lines has announced that after Saturday it will no longer call at Portland's Terminal 6, where it began service in July 2010. The departure could be a death knell for the Pacific Northwest gateway, which has almost slipped off the map as a container port due to more than two years of labor strife involving International Longshore and Warehous Union Local 8 and the operator of the Oregon port's only container terminal.

The relentless work slowdowns and poor productivity that began in June 2012 over a jurisdictional dispute resulted last spring in the departure of the port's two largest container lines, South Korean's Hanjin Shipping and Germany's Hapag-Lloyd.

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