The ILWU brothers and sisters donated their services last week to load 15 containers of dry foods, medicine, blankets and other essential relief supplies for tsunami victims in the Samoa Islands ... Folks from the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, Port of Oakland, Port of Portland, Port of Tacoma, and Port of Seattle will be headed for China next month along with railroad executives from the Union Pacific and BNSF to promote West Coast gateways for trans-Pacific trade ... A change in the way the clean truck fee is collected at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach - expected to take place Nov. 1 - has been moved back to Nov. 15.

The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach are teaming up with the Southern California Air Quality Management District to pay for two new liquefied natural gas fueling stations that will be located on facilities run by Cal Cartage ... ILWU longshoreman Michael Marquez was arrested at his home in San Pedro last week in connection with an accident at the Port of Long Beach last January that killed trucker Pablo Antonio Garcia ... The last phase of a $383 million channel deepening project at the Port of Los Angeles will proceed now that the Harbor Commission has approved the development permit.

 - The Cunningham Report