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APMT and ILWU agree to training scheme for automated LA terminal
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INTERNATIONAL Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 13 and APM Terminals have reached a tentative agreement to implement a training programme for longshore mechanics to learn the skills necessary to maintain and repair the automated cargo-handling equipment the terminal operator will utilise at its Los Angeles facility.
The six-month-long negotiations between the southern California local and APM Terminals seem to have been resolved amicably, with the ILWU achieving its goal of creating a programme to re-skill and up-skill longshore workers to maintain and repair automated cargo-handling equipment. In the coming month, APM will deploy the equipment on a 100-acre parcel of its container terminal in Los Angeles.
"We believe that it is critical to the continued success of the port of Los Angeles that the ILWU is trained for the jobs of the future. As we prepare to modernise pier 400, we are glad to be working in partnership with the ILWU and PMA [Pacific Maritime Association] on implementing a training programme that complements the changes at pier 400," APM said in a statement, reported IHS Media.
APM Terminals' request for the construction permit that is needed to install electrical recharging equipment for the automated straddle carriers it will deploy at pier 400 can now move forward to the final stage of the approval process before the Los Angeles City Council. If the council takes no action by August 7, the agreement will become final on the next day, and the construction permit will be issued.
APM intends to deploy driverless, battery-powered auto-straddle carriers at pier 400. Dozens of existing jobs in which longshore workers drive diesel-powered yard tractors to shuttle containers between the vessel and the container stacks will be scrapped. However, under the agreement, longshore workers who have been trained in the maintenance and repair (M&R) of diesel equipment will be retrained for M&R work on zero-emission electrical equipment.
Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) president James McKenna said the training programme has two parts. One part calls for re-skilling regular longshore workers who want to become mechanics. Another part of the programme will up-skill existing ILWU mechanics to perform M&R work on the jobs being created by automation, such as repairing and maintaining electric and battery-powered cargo-handling equipment.
This training programme might become a model upon which similar training programmes could be established, Mr McKenna observed.
The six-month-long negotiations between the southern California local and APM Terminals seem to have been resolved amicably, with the ILWU achieving its goal of creating a programme to re-skill and up-skill longshore workers to maintain and repair automated cargo-handling equipment. In the coming month, APM will deploy the equipment on a 100-acre parcel of its container terminal in Los Angeles.
"We believe that it is critical to the continued success of the port of Los Angeles that the ILWU is trained for the jobs of the future. As we prepare to modernise pier 400, we are glad to be working in partnership with the ILWU and PMA [Pacific Maritime Association] on implementing a training programme that complements the changes at pier 400," APM said in a statement, reported IHS Media.
APM Terminals' request for the construction permit that is needed to install electrical recharging equipment for the automated straddle carriers it will deploy at pier 400 can now move forward to the final stage of the approval process before the Los Angeles City Council. If the council takes no action by August 7, the agreement will become final on the next day, and the construction permit will be issued.
APM intends to deploy driverless, battery-powered auto-straddle carriers at pier 400. Dozens of existing jobs in which longshore workers drive diesel-powered yard tractors to shuttle containers between the vessel and the container stacks will be scrapped. However, under the agreement, longshore workers who have been trained in the maintenance and repair (M&R) of diesel equipment will be retrained for M&R work on zero-emission electrical equipment.
Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) president James McKenna said the training programme has two parts. One part calls for re-skilling regular longshore workers who want to become mechanics. Another part of the programme will up-skill existing ILWU mechanics to perform M&R work on the jobs being created by automation, such as repairing and maintaining electric and battery-powered cargo-handling equipment.
This training programme might become a model upon which similar training programmes could be established, Mr McKenna observed.