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The US federal government should consider stepping in to help container terminal operators stay in business, as volumes plummet as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two FMC commissioners, Carl Bentzel and Louis Sola, have written to the department of transport urging it to look at ways of bringing financial relief to the sector.

They said they feared some terminal operators could rack such substantial losses that they could cease operating.

“We have specific concerns about the abilities of US marine terminal operators ...

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  • Gary Ferrulli

    May 04, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Payments to foreign owned US terminal operators by US taxpayers? How many are true US companies, not pieces of paper making them US companies?