Why is cargo movement important to California?
• In 2000 alone, nearly $200 billion worth of goods moved through the ports, generating more than $16 billion in state and local taxes and creating 2 million jobs throughout the country. • Between the fall of 2004 and mid-2005, the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union responded to growing demand by hiring 5,000 new casual (part-time) workers and promoting almost 2,000 casual workers to registered (full-time) status • Marine terminals operating at the ports have hired hundreds of additional workers to move cargo since the inception of OffPeak, including more than 300 new high-paying union jobs at the terminals. • Transportation and warehousing account for about 51,300 jobs in Riverside and San Bernardino counties How will the terminals know I have paid the Traffic Mitigation Fee payment? When each payment is made, an electronic message is sent to the terminal’s operating system in much the same way Ocean Freight or demurrage charges are sent w
