Jock O'Connell

@PMSAship Congratulations, Mike.

Breaking news: PMSA announces its' Senior Management Succession Plan for 2024. After 28 years, John McLaurin isretiring and stepping down as PMSA President. Meet our new President, Mike Jacob! Read the full press release here: ow.ly/Gqxy50PPuO0 #WestCoastPorts #PMSA

The San Pedro Bay maritime complex in Southern California (@PortofLA and @portoflongbeach) handled 263,155 more loaded inbound TEUs and 100,311 more outbound loaded TEUs in July than did East Coast rival @PANYNJ.

Outbound loaded TEUs in July shipped from the @portoflongbeach were the fewest in any month since January 2009.

Amused to see certain port officials still anticipating that back-to-school sales will affect import volumes when classes started yesterday at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest. Chicago schools start next Monday.

On Threads, if you care to follow, I’m @jockoconnell.

I am now a citizen of the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪. Word from Dublin arrived this week that my application for citizenship (based on the fact my paternal grandmother was born in County Galway) was approved.

Easily the most entertaining race in Major League Baseball right now has got to be the @RedSox vs @Yankees for last place in the AL East.

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173,342 fewer loaded TEUs were shipped from U.S. seaports in the first six months of this year than during the same period in pre-pandemic 2019.

Inbound loaded TEUs were down 6.4% from the first-half of pre-pandemic 2019 at U.S. West Coast ports but up 7.1% at East Coast ports. @PMSAship

@RedSox extend lead over @Yankees in AL East.

Who is Taylor Swift?

@RedSox go a game up on @Yankees.

Outbound loaded TEU traffic at the @PortofLA in June was -22.4% from the same month in pre-pandemic 2019, while outbound loaded TEUs from neighboring @portoflongbeach was -29.4%.

Inbound loaded TEU traffic at @PortofLA and @portoflongbeach in June was -2.5% of pre-pandemic June 2019. @PortofLA was +9.8% but @portoflongbeach was -17.3%.

@PortofLA posted its June container numbers today. Compared with the pre-pandemic June of 2019, inbound loaded TEUs were up 9.8%, but outbound loads were off by 22.4%. Excluding dreadful 2020, first-half container traffic through the port was the lowest of any year since 2016.

California sees mild weather while global temperature records fall abc10.com/article/tech/s…

@Costco now selling Halloween (October 31) costumes. Hey kids, it’s only 16 weeks until trick-or-treat.

My comments cited prominently in this analysis. jurist.org/news/?p=211540

Canadian port workers in BC strike against automation and outsourcing jurist.org/news/?p=211540