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USMX PORT ASSOCIATION MEMBERS
LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS
The Terminal Advance Gate System or AGS has been implemented at both
the Wando Terminal and North Charleston Terminal.
Longshoremen
• Ken Riley was re-elected President of ILA Longshore Local 1422.
• ILA Longshore Local 1422 has pulled out of the South Atlantic Negotiating
Committee and will seek to bargain independently of Wilmington, NC,
Savannah, GA, Jacksonville, FL and Tampa, FL for their own District
Contract.
SC Inland Port
The South Carolina Inland Port, located in Greer, SC, has been in operation since
2013. A Second Inland Port project has been proceeding and is scheduled to open
in Dillon, SC, in April 2018.
Exis ng Terminal Moderniza on and Infrastructure Projects
• The last phase (Berth 3) of the Wando Welch Terminal (WWT) strengthening
project is scheduled for completion by the end of June 2018.
• Two new neo-Panamax cranes with a 155-foot lift height are scheduled for
delivery in April 2018.
One of the existing cranes has been raised and is back in service.
A second crane is in the process of being raised and this project will continue
until all cranes at the WWT are completed.
