A longshoreman loads a container on a truck at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6, where productivity sank last summer as ships bypassed Portland during a union dispute that continues. The Port will pay shipping lines $10 a container through the end of this year to encourage them to keep calling on Portland as labor turmoil boosts costs Port of Portland: Rich Read reports that the Port of Portland will pay shipping lines $10 a container to keep sending cargo vessels here despite longshore labor disputes that started last spring and drove up costs.
Port commissioners voted 7-2 Wednesday in favor of the payments to ocean carriers, up to a total $1 million, on top of subsidizing the company that operates Portland's embattled container yard.
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